A long, fascinating, witty blog. And in fact, I did write just such a blog on Saturday. Then somehow lost the entire thing while trying to fight with pictures and captions. Mostly because the blog is all about the pictures. Except I had a couple of brilliant haiku’s in there which I cannot possibly re-create. Your loss.
Here’s my attempt to re-create at least part of it, just because it’s too damn beautiful not to share.
We will start our tourat the gardens. Spring reveals wild and cultivated columbinesherself in flowers.
the garden columbinia (my plural)lilies of the valley

plus rose geranium and some soon to bloom siberian iris in the background
more rose geranium with wineberry stems and a peach tree. also much mint and garlic chive
baby peachlings
just a bit of green for you.

And now we head downInto gardens planted byMom Nature herself.
black locust in bloomAlong the way, I’llendeavor to acquaint you
with stuff you can eat. aside from being amazingly fragrant, the blooms are edible. their taste is kind of a cross between a violet and the way lilacs smell.
ease on down the road
Not ragweed, altho often mistaken. also not edible.  chrysopsis mariana to you.
but right purty they are
purslane in bloom. edible. better picture to follow, somewhere in this mess
just the creek after the rain. just because.
also. what she said above.Don’t stop now, so muchMore to see and learn about.
Surely not done yet? wild garlic mustard. edible. lovely in salads or cooked with other greens. and don't call it shirley
say hello to my little friend
winter cress. edible , tho better young. a bit bitter. flowers taste like a cross between broccoli and mustard flowers.

a better look at purslane
water cress in the stream. winter cress's more popular sister
I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMilleThere’s nothing like it,The sound of a creek, tumbling
Over polished stones.

pink clover, before flowering. all parts of this plant are edible. No thanks to Euell
plantain. the other kind. edible and lovely raw or stirfried. tastes like mushrooms.  I threw in the dandelion gratis cause  people consider them edible. not me.

wineberry vine. the leaves make lovely tea now. the berries are magnificent later
miami mist not edible
chickweed. my favorite spring green. i like it even more than violet leaves. very high in vitamins c and a
the white stuff is wild aster my darling chickweed at its finest



wild strawberries, not in bloom.
you can eat the flowers. but why would you when you can wait and have berries?
i don't know their names. lets call them all alice.
wild aster again.
we call this heal-all. but i think it's not. feel free to correct me
violet leaves. remember what i said earlier? i'm nit going to repeat myself
the only wild azalea i've found on the propertty
another view of black locust
deerberry. berries look like green blueberrys but never change color. edible, but why would you unless starving.
wild blueberry or huckleberry. 


one of the rhododendrons getting ready to bud
This ends our programfor today. Time to head home.New beauty awaits.