One Woman's Weeds Are Another Woman's Wildflowers...

We live in a new-ish subdivision.

This has many good points, but there are lots of things I miss.

  In my adult life, (having been married at one time to a building contractor) I have had many (sometimes very brief) stays in new (always for sale ~ "make us an offer") houses. When the children were growing up, however, we lived in the older neighborhood in town. One of the homes was built in 1936, the other in 1918. Wonderful yards, ancient oaks, huge dogwoods...ferns, moss. Squirrels. Also, ancient plumbing, leaky roofs (the plaster ceiling in my bedroom once gave way in a deluge of rainwater at 4 a.m.), few-and-far-between electrical outlets, tiny bathrooms, ghostly creaking stairs in the wee hours (kind of interesting, that). Lots to keep up with...limbs down during storms, leaves to rake...etc. That said, I do like my house now, a lot. Spacious, easily maintained (something to consider as we get older...) ~  

The one thing I miss the most, though...(besides the character of an old house; have to love that) ~ is the yard.

Here is what my yard looked like not so very long ago (the whole subdivision, actually, not just ours ;)

This is what our neighbor's yard looks like today.

Ours does not look like that...it is a little...weedy...some might say.

But, look a little closer...

Aren't these wonderful?? I don't know what they are, but they are tiny, Lilliputian jewels! They look like they belong in a fairy-garden...They are about the size of a pencil eraser top...Kentucky Bluegrass can't compare...



Update (4/1) ~ I've just found out what these sweet little flowers are ~ ((thank you, Janet!)) ~ they are Bluet; a North American rubiaceous (meaning of the Madder family) plant, Houstonia caerulea , with small four-petalled blue flowers  ~ also called "Innocence" or "Quaker Ladies" ~ Love it! ♥

I love dandelions! (I know, I'm probably really in the minority here...;) So sunny!

"Thou shalt not blow dandelion fluff toward thy neighbor's lawn..."

Henbit...(still looks like little llama heads to me!) ~ :)

Vetch (Vicia) ~ a member of the pea family, I think its magenta blossoms are so pretty! Farmers hate it in their fields...those crop-strangling little tendrils!

White clover~ I think it smells so good! It always reminds me of making "chains' ~ necklaces ~ with it when I was little...and the bunnies, Max, Ruby and Warren...love it so much! I've been picking it for them every evening...If it were up to me, we just wouldn't mow at all...



"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic 



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I can't believe another week has flown by so fast!

Happy Friday, all!

♥ ♥ ♥

Anne