....at La Pouyette
It's budding
It's blooming
It buzzes and hums
It chirps and warbles
It's Spring!
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Fig tree and Trumpet flower 'Back wall'
Apple tree
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Spiraea
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Clematis Montana
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White Lilac
The whole garden is filled with tender fragrances....
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Choisya ternata - Mexican Orange
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While creating this post I listen to:
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Salvia officinalis
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First Rose blossoms...
"Back wall"
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Very hard pruned 4 weeks ago...
"Premature Spring"
DAYS full of rapture,
Are ye renew'd ?--
Smile in the sunlight
Mountain and wood?
Streams richer laden
Flow through the dale,
Are these the meadows?
Is this the vale?
Coolness cerulean!
Heaven and height!
Fish crowd the ocean,
Golden and bright.
Birds of gay plumage
Sport in the grove,
Heavenly numbers
Singing above.
Under the verdure's
Vigorous bloom,
Bees, softly bumming,
Juices consume.
Gentle disturbance
Quivers in air,
Sleep-causing fragrance,
Motion so fair.
Rises the breeze,
Then in a moment
Dies in the trees.
But to the bosom
Comes it again.
Aid me, ye Muses,
Bliss to sustain!
Say what has happen'd
Since yester e'en?
Oh, ye fair sisters,
Her I have seen!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1802
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....the Tree Peonies....
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Blossoms in the size of 9" diameter!
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My "Chinese Beauty"
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It buzzes and hums - It chirps and warbles....!
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Apropos chirping and warbling,
since last Monday a little Birdie is trying to build a nest..
Every day I find on the steps piles of moss and sticks....
...some of them in the size of nearly 10" long!
but he/she is determined,
determined to build a nest right up there!
Because the top of the pilaster is only about 3" deep
and because of a lot of wind during the week -
no chance so far!
A large pile! Enough for at least 10 nests!
One should think that he/she would take the "building material" from this pile,
but NO!
I discovered - again - this morning!!!
I wonder when the "giving-up" will be happen...
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It's budding....
Iris Germanica
It's blooming...
...and we are more than
CONTENT !
A bientôt....
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Oh - By the way.....
I SAW the Cuckoo !!!!
A few days ago - while sitting in the living room
thinking, looking through the windows,
thinking how to organize further garden work,
suddenly a bird arrived, settling down in the lime tree
which is situated next to one of the large windows.
A bird which I have not seen so far at our place.
So, it's sitting there, looking around....for what?
Have not had my camera in hand...could not move....
but it was certainly an or "our" Cuckoo!
Looked exactly like this one:
Here is what I found on info on the internet:
Mangrove Cuckoo
Coccyzus minor
Cuculiforme Order - Cuculidae Family
Is our Cuckoo a Mangrove Cuckoo?????
Weird!
But - believe me - it was a Cuckoo!
And I have seen it!!!
