My Mother's Day Gift, A Garden

Before: This area in front of the porch was a sad pitiful necglected unkept flowerbed. Needed a lot of care. I could see possibilities but the thought of all that hard work made me tired just thinking about it. Had me sweating and aching and I hadn't even lifted a finger to do anything.

If you think this looks a mess, you should see what looked like before.

I spend a lot of time sitting on the porch enjoying nice weather, morning coffee, mid-day cold drinks and so on.

Out of the blue, Baby Son decided to clear it out and make me a new flowerbed. Said he thought I'd enjoy working in it while I'm outside. I sure would enjoy that! How did he know?

Here's what it looked like after he cleared out the dead shrubs, dry leaves, pine needles, and other junk.

I like it, I like it!

We hopped in the car and raced over to Home Depot garden center to look at plants. I could hardly wait start digging in the dirt and planting pretty flowers all over the place. We took turns deciding what plants to get. Here's what we came up with.

Oh wow, I can't belive my eyes, what a beauty!
There's still much to do but, for now I enjoy sitting on my porch more than ever now.

Thanks, Mike.