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I will need to get more grape jelly.
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These new arrivals are hungry .
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They are not shy.
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and Orioles.
Yesterday I saw the male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.
So happy they remembered me.
I am looking for the ladies to come in today.
The White Lilac grows on the east side of my house.
A fellow gardener gave me a tiny slip from her bush 18-20 years ago.
I left the window open.
These are special tulips. They were saved from the trash by a girlfriend. She did not get them planted in her yard so they laid in her garage for a few months.
She brought them to me. She thought I would be able to magically make them grow!
Mother Nature did save two out of 100. I nurture these two pretty little tulips. Not fancy but special. My gardens are full of stories. Mother Nature grows the flowers and I care for the stories.
These are my Ali tulips.
Today is her birthday.