Monthly Archives: March 2015

Tree Pants

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A giant passed out in our driveway!!

Oh wait, its just some tree pants!

Unicorn Barn

Building blocks, au natural

Photogenic Dexie

Successful Bear Hunt

Fun with a fallen tree

This big dead tree has been looming over our cars for months. Relieved that Smoochie took it down before spring storm season!

Hanging out

These look so much like maps!

View of the garden from the front deck

All that dirt: full of possibilities!

Lemon Balm and Sorrel

Spy Garden 3.28.15

A row of yellow wonder strawberries; I’m thinking of planting cukes among these.

Asparagus harvest coming soon!

I love our garden living room furniture (made by Smoochie)

Springy green grass!

Log Balance Beam

Another view of the tree pants

Pants become shorts!

And a few unrelated photos of the Missouri River at sunrise…

SO vibrant!

Pastel Sky

Happy Spring!

Spy Garden Slackline

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Stretched between two trees

Gibbon Slackline

Its very hard to do!

Baby giving it a try…

Ready for tricks!

This shot of me is completely serendipitous; I can’t do this on demand!

We love circus-y things in Spy Garden (click here to see us showing off more of our circus tricks). St. Louis has a wonderful circus arts school that offers many classes, including flying trapeze lessons (click here to check them out)! I am a proficient juggler, so naturally, juggling clubs while walking the slackline is coming soon. Ha! But for now, I’m happy to enjoy the tricks of the spring garden…

Buds on a plum tree

Voila! A lavender asparagus spear peaks through the dirt.

Lots of new growth on the blackberry bush

Hardneck Garlic

The teeniest of flowers popping up in the lawn

I planted this Great Burdock from seed last spring and it grew very slowly all season but popped up this spring and is growing like crazy! Here are some ideas for cooking burdock roots.

Dexie Close-Up

Chalk

Green Thumbs Up!

Springing in Spy Garden

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Hasta la Vista Eucalyptus (and old leaves)

Wow! Now it looks like spring!

The two large shrubby plants at either end of this row are thyme; they’ve gotten so huge! I may move them as they are taking up a lot of prime real estate.

Burning the last of the leaves

I think I will be growing pumpkins in this patch in a few months. For now it has: tulips, onions, love-in-a-mist flowers, red romaine and Monstreux de Viroflay spinach