Perfection

This looks like a perfect Alpine Spruce, right?

 Well, here's the other side. Not so perfect..

Several of our trees looked like this. We have been told that we need to be patient...they will come back. Hard for some, when they want their yards to look perfect, but things in nature are often not perfect. The winter played a cruel trick on us and burned so many shrubs in our town. When we take a drive, we see hundreds of trees affected by the harsh winter. We took the advice to be patient and slowly but surely they are coming back. All of them have bright green new growth. It's interesting to me to see what variety of shrubs were affected. I think that the Alpine Spruce family was hit the hardest. Our Bird Nest Spruce trees...right next to these were not affected. The trees affected were all planted with the same exposure. I'll have to remember to show this tree at the end of the summer...to see if it has improved.

We finished the entry to the drive yesterday with a couple of flat, irregularly shaped stepping stones on each side. It was Joe's idea and I think it worked out well. The geraniums in the new pots are needing a drink quite often. It was really hot when they were planted, so they need a deep watering. I'll take some pictures later this weekend and show them the first of next week.

The Lamium is spreading and blooming now. I love the soft lavender blue flowers. When it's finished blooming it still looks pretty with the variegated leaves of green and silver.
I had better make this short and head into town. We shopped yesterday at the big store, but both of us thought the other had bought milk...you guessed it...no milk. We have donuts though :)
Balisha