Haircut Day

Sunday was haircut day.  Not my haircut, because I'm not sure the beauty salons are allowed to open yet. 

It was definitely haircut day for my lawn, though.  Not sure you can tell where I'd already mowed, but when I killed my mower, it needed a minute to recoup, so I grabbed my camera and took this shot.

It definitely looked better, at least in my opinion.

I had mowed the front lawn first, and when I went back to take a photo of the yard, this is what I saw.  My neighbor was putting up a fence.

I really chopped the flowers down, because I was ready to start over.

This is supposed to be my lilies of the valley, but all I see are leaves at the moment.  Maybe they are slow bloomers.

Overnight the rains came.  Downpours over and over, like we were caught in a loop of rain and really high winds.  You can see the devastation in my driveway and in the street.  I was of course, more interested in the little squirrel who didn't seem to mind that I was watching him or her.

Thankfully, it seemed to have found something to eat and was quite happy to allow me to take several photos.

That's when I saw the wall my neighbor had put up.  Somehow it made me feel very isolated.  Sitting on my front porch people watching wasn't going to be any fun, either.

Fast forward to Tuesday afternoon, and you can see many of my herbs are now either planted or outside.  Thankfully, my rosemary, which I almost killed last year because I put it in a sunny spot too soon before it had time to acclimate, is doing well.  I have it in a shady spot until I am able to slowly bring it into more and more sun.

I was able to get one of the hay bales that sat on my front porch all winter onto the back patio.  I didn't even notice until I saw in the photo, that the hay has covered the cabinet that holds my chiminea firewood.  I'll need to come up with a new plan.  I just dislike that the back patio is so small.

These are all Sweet 100s, those tiny tomatoes smaller than cherry and grape tomatoes.  I hope I didn't plant them too close together.

You can tell by the splatter on the sides of the white pots how hard it rained the night before.  You can't really tell I swept, either.

There was devastation and signs of heavy rain everywhere I looked.

A new plant this year is sweet marjoram.  There is nothing in the pot on the right.  I'll be planting basil there soon.

It's the same pot I'll be planting the basil in, but now it's on the left side of the photo.  The next pot has dill that found its way into the pot that overwintered.

I keep hoping this is cilantro (I call the seeds coriander) in the blue pot, but it's a bit too soon to tell for sure.  I have lots of seeds, though.

This is ONE very expensive Roma tomato.  It's also what happens when you allow someone else to shop for you.  Scott picked it out and paid a fortune for it.  It had better produce a ton of Roma tomatoes, or I'm going to be very upset.

My orange mint is doing quite well.

My pineapple mint not so much!

I had hoped my fennel would come back, but I allowed it to overwinter outside and it was definitely too cold for it.  I'll see if any of the seeds I saved will germinate.

In the cart are two new plants.  The one on the left is sage and the one on the right is chives.  Actually, each of these was a four pack.

How is your garden growing? I keep trying to get mine to look like Divers and Sundry's patio, but that isn't going to happen because she and her husband have a lot more space than I have.

Thanks for joining me for Haircut Day.   I always appreciate your visits and your kind comments, too.