March 31, 2007

March 30, 2007

My hibiscus is full of blossoms and buds again. Hopefully, I've saved this plant/tree from the little white bugs that destroyed my other plant.

March 29, 2007

A new shoot is coming on my orchid plant. Is it a flower stem or a root? I'm hoping for another flower stem!

March 28, 2007

Raindrops on the windshield.

March 27, 2007

March 26, 2007

March 25, 2007

March 24, 2007

March 23, 2007

It must be spring-my tulips are up and we saw a robin last night!

March 22, 2007

Spring Garden a week later.

March 21, 2007

For Christmas our nieces gave us a gift certificate to Simply to the Table. What a wonderful gift-although we have not tasted the meals yet, the first one is in the oven right now. You make your menu choices from the menu offered and show up. Everything is out, ready for you to assemble; the tomatoes, onions chopped, the cheese shredded and the main meat premeasured. Everything you need to add is lined up with the appropriate measuring utensit in it or next to it. We prepared 9 meals in an hour maybe faster because we were the only ones there, but it was fun! And they did the clean-up. Thank you, Nieces!

March 20, 2007

This morning's sky.

March 19, 2007

Baddeck, Nova Scotia, taken in October 2006.

March 18, 2007

My other future grand-cat.

March 17, 2007

With my favorite author, Jodi Picoult.

March 16, 2007

March 15, 2007

Spring Garden

March 14, 2007

The ducks have returned.

March 13, 2007

It was a sad day! All the little white spots on yesterday's picture of the plant were little white bugs. When I noticed half my plant was dying, I looked more closely and discovered the underside of the leaves were just covered with them, so out in the snow it went. I almost cried!

I've battled these bugs before and it's something that is impossible to do in the house, so to save my big hibiscus tree I had to make the sacrifice.

March 12, 2007

This is a plant I purchased at the St Paul Winter Carnival Orchid Show at Como Park Conservatory in January. It is supposed to-and does-catch the little bugs that fly around house plants. Does anyone know the name of it? It's supposed to be easy to start new plants from the leaves, so I will try to do that.

March 11, 2007

March 10, 2007

Another new orchid I bought.

March 9, 2007

Spring is in the air!

March 8, 2007

My orchids are in their prime!

March 7, 2007

One of my future grand-cats.

March 6, 2007

Dirt Cake

When I attended my first department Christmas party at my last job, when it was time for dessert, I was handed a flower pot with a poinsetta "growing" in the "dirt". I didn't know what to do but was told that was dessert and to dig in. It was-underneath the Oreo cookie crumbs was a good pudding/whip cream mixture. I could hardly wait to show this off to the family, so served it at a family get together. The grandchildren loved it and have been asking for this dessert for their birthday cake ever since-16 years. Now I don't even bother with the flower but substitute gummy worms or the chocolate candies that look like rocks. That one was served in a dump truck. Fun!

March 5, 2007

March 4, 2007

Christmas was more than 2 months ago, but the poinsetta is still if full bloom.

March 3, 2007

The view on our deck.

March 2, 2007

The view out the front door this morning.

March 1, 2007

Yesterday was warmer and apparently windy.