Workin'

My Mom is working doing a lot of house stuff, like throwing stuff away and cleaning things, and moving things.  Do I need to tell you how crabby this makes her? 

She did take a few pictures of some growing things outside.  She says the perennials are her favorite things because even if it stays chilly (like now, its almost noon time and only 54 degrees), they come up nice and green.  Even one of them has some flowers on it.  Thats the first picture, its Sweet Woodruff and it smells very nice, the flowers are so tiny!

This has flowers too but they are short lived.  This is a flowering crab and my Mom meant to get pictures of it in its prime but she missed it.   We love this tree because it gets little red berries on it and we thought the birds would eat them right away, but they don't!  They leave the berries sit all summer, fall and winter, and then, in the spring loads and loads of birds come and eat these berries.  Robins, cedar waxwings, bigger birds that hope its gonna warm up, just fill up on these.We have seen the tree covered with a whole flock of birds.  We love it.

This is a lupine.  It gets flowers on it and it wants warm weather to do that. Good luck, Lupine.

We are the original No News Family I guess.  My Mom says she wants to take time to make a few blankets for Tank and the dogs of Joplin, MO .  We are sad for all the people there who have lost their homes and pets who have been separated from their families.  One thing you can do is visit Tank's blog
and send a blanket to Joplin.  Lots of other things too, just Google for Joplin Relief .

Kisses,

Stella and Crabby Appleton