May Already

Hard to believe, but it is May. Almost half a year gone. This past week I have been listening to Big Audio Dynamite, E=MC2, The Globe, Medicine Show and Rush to name just a few. Big Audio Dynamite features a lot of sampling, dance beats and Mick Jones of The Clash. This is typical for me, I’ll get stuck on a song or group for awhile and then give someone else a turn. I guess I just have a wide range of musical interests and just about everything else too. If I could focus on just one area… My friend Frank, yes Big Frank was into Big Audio Dynamite for awhile. A reunion of BAD may be possible in 2011 says Mick Jones, if so I would love to go, since I never got to see The Clash, one of my favorite bands.

I started on a small garden tool box, it will be made of oak with a hardware cloth bottom so dirt doesn’t accumulate in it, will hold most of our hand tools and my purple twine. Maybe I’ll finish it up this week.

Enough about me, here are the Flowers of May so far. Some snuck up on me, I didn’t realize they had bloomed till I went out to take pictures of the garden. Star of Bethleham (Ornithogalum umbellatum) – well contained where I have it, slightly weed like. It can be invasive. I didn’t plant it, it just showed up.Azalea – it came with the house. I keep it well trimmed and always expect it to disappear.The troughs, with new alpines in the front.The new lewisia, it’s a dwarf versionAn older lewisia, sorry more mature.the new dwarf Coral bell for a trough – I didn’t know there were dwarf varieties. fairy Foxglove ( Erinus Alpinus ) in a trough. Siskiyou evening primrose, spreads pretty quickly.A little rose my sister gave us long ago. Spiderwort blue bearded iris Dianthus family, planted along the wall of the front steps. There are 3 – 4 of them and now they share the location with some small rose bushes a friend gave us.