Flowers

We have a wonderful garden.  It takes a lot of work, but it is a joy to look at.  I've started an album to show the ever changing flowers and plants.  It is here.  I will include pictures of the plants as they change and the people who toil there.  There is so much toiling to be done. Eric walks in almost every day, looking like he has been kneeling at an altar of moist soil.  He does most of the weeding and much of the planting.  Cindy does the rest of the planting and is a whirlwind of clean-up and trimming.

What do I do?  Well, some.  I rake and throw stuff away usually.  Kneeling is out of the question. I don't know if that will change when I get new knees.  Now that fall is past and the leaves have decided to stay on the trees for a while I have a new task - helicopter retrieval. Helicopters are the seed pods of the maple tree. There are two maple trees here that dropped thousands of seed pods. They reminded Adrian of the ubiquitous seeds dropped by the palm trees that fronted our house on Los Robles. These are a little easier to see, but they do the same thing. If you look closely below, you can see the seed pods on the left and the resulting little maple tree on the right. They have found the garden that Cindy recently rototilled. Some day these will be gone and tomatoes will thrive instead.