"careful, there may be live critters in there..."
Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 06:34PM 
ray said to me as he threw down the dried up, dead palm fronds from our neighbor's neglected backyard. he threw them down one by one as i filled up the trash can, then a trash bag and then another trash bag. no critters, live or dead, came out of the fronds but, they looked like some sort of evil critter themselves!
after that job was finished, it was on to planting new flowers and pulling up weeds. i remember when my mom used to pay me a penny for every weed i pulled. no such luck now! i only get the gratification of having a pretty yard!
what is it about weeds? why do they grow so quickly? where do they come from? why can't i see them all? it seems like once i finish pulling up weeds, i see another one that is so tall, it looks like a tree and i've somehow missed it. ray then comes up and says - "you missed one, jen" and there it is - 3 feet tall!!
here is my new favorite thing in the backyard - a Pink Jasmine! I tried unsuccessfully three times to grow these at my old apartment - it never worked. this time, i have faith that they will live and it will always smell good outside the back door!
i also love the tree that is about to bloom. i know it doesn't seem like there are sesasons in california but, there are and...spring is here! we've been waiting for this tree to bloom and it has started! 
in the front yard, we have all the color in the world. when we bought the house, we only knew there were going to be geraniums but, look what happened!
it has been a long day in the yard, i'm now going to go finish our lasanga - dinner is in 20 minutes!
garden, wilson street
Reader Comments (3)
looks so nice! the flowers are bee-yoo-tee-full! isn't spring so nice here?
Wow! It looks so gorgeous! The Jasmine will be so pretty there! Here is a link to a page for caring for Jasmine:
http://garden.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Jasmine
You can do it!
Beauftiful!
xoxo
I have two of the jasmins in my garden too! The aroma, just incredible. Although the name in my country is Jasmin of Arabia.