Bobert, have you gotten a little digital camera yet? Now that you've been at that place for a while we need to get another look at it. Especially while these azaleas are in bloom!
I ate my first strawberry out of the garden this morning. Mostly I worked in a drizzle to remove a caked down pad of red oak tassles and live oak leaves from the street at the curb (neither tree grows in my yard--it all drifts in from neighbors). The mail carrier drives along the curb lane six days a week and compresses it, and the rain this weekend only cut a channel through it. I know the city will want it removed, so I went out with the hose and swept and tossed clumps on the lawn to mulch in, and washed some down the street and cleaned up next door so it wouldn't simply become their problem.
This week is the first opportunity I'll have to do some serious gardening. It's busy at the end of the semester, though, so I'll steal a little time when I can. I'm usually out there much earlier in the year, but we were doing all of the college applications and visits. My son has decided to go to the University of Arizona in Tucson, by the way. (During last week's trip I set up a visit with one of the guitar majors there, recommended by the dept. head. I think that was the tipping point. He'll probably end up some king of computer engineer, but he'll be a fabulous guitarist on the side!).