Denver Spring

It's finally reached normal spring temperatures here; around 70 during the day. The grass is overgrowing (and water restrictions are already in place), lilacs are blooming, along with the crabapple and apple trees, and I just got a wonderful Margaret Merrill rose bush in the mail from my hubby. We had a Margaret Merrill in the backyard at our rental house in Seattle; it is one of the most wonderfully smelling rose bushes I've ever had. White long-lasting blooms, too. I've just got to pick the best place in the backyard to plant it. We've also got a Mr. Lincoln, a climbing country rose, and two unidentified variety rose bushes. The whole back of the yard is a perennial bed, with mums, iris, one weak clematis, and a bunch of other stuff I can't identify. I'm wondering if over the years it will just become a rose garden.

There are also little chickadee birds who build a nest every year in a nook under the porch roof. All day long I watch them fly back and forth with little scraps of grass, twigs, etc. I'm entering the nesting phase, too, having started a list of "must-have"s for the baby. Now I just need to be off of bed rest so I can go shopping! Online just isn't the same.