My Hummingbirds Are Arriving

I stood still for half an hour today with my camera, just waiting to try to capture some photos of the newly arrived hummingbirds, but they were just not cooperating!  Finally, as I turned to give up, one came to feed.  My digital camera is just not high enough quality to give you really great shots (when Jacqui returns from college at the end of the month I'll give her that assignment).  But I did capture a few shots of him feeding.  Later in the summer we'll feed 50+ a day!  We fill three of these containers, twice a day.  And if I don't keep them filled, my birds come after me… seriously!  They'll come tap on the window to let me know that the feeders are dry.

I want to design a hummingbird feeder one day that has the text "Can't we just all get along?!" wrapped around it!  They are the craziest little bullies.  If they spent half the energy they spend on fighting for position on just simply feeding and getting along they'd all be fat, dumb and happy.

hummingbird at feeder

As for the rest of the garden shots, I'm finally starting to see blooms everywhere.  My roses are putting out buds and I might even have some as early as later this week.

My miniature climbing rose on the porch swing arbor will be spectacular in about a month.

The yellow flowers in the window box are a new variety of snapdragon that I planted this year, I think they were called "Fairy Snapdragons" but I'm not sure.  They are absolutely marvelous.  They are covered in blooms and have grown very quickly.  They are a miniature variety, perhaps 10-12" tall at their peak.  Perfect for pots and window boxes.

I don't know what the purple ground cover is called, but I planted it last summer and these blossoms are 6-8" tall and the deepest, blue purple color.  They just vibrate with color in the shade of my California Redwood trees.

April 1st garden shotsThere is something so marvelously cheerful about pansies.  I love their little "faces" smiling at me in my windows.  These are the ones I planted before the last big snowstorm… they're no worse for the wear.

I hope that some of you northerners are getting to go outside in your gardens and soak up some sun.  If not, I trust you will be soon.

I'd love nothing more than to be out playing in my garden today, but I'm going to be a good girl and keep resting up so I don't relapse and end up back in bed.

Have a marvelous day!

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

The Winner of the Monthly Blog Referral Contest is…

Thank you all for the wonderful referrals this month, I had 59 names to draw from… actually my handsome husband drew for me so I couldn't play favorites!  The winner is Robin "RaeRay," sorry I don't have a last name!  Robin, I'll send out your quick pages tomorrow via YouSendIt.

Robin wins the brand new Lilies 'n Lace Quick Page Duo:

Contest prizeThere will be a pair of these Quick Page  Duos available on Tuesday in the Daisie Company store.  They will retail at $2.98 per set.

Each layout is a set of facing scrapbook pages that are ready to personalize with your wedding pictures or those of friends or family.

This "Lilies 'n Lace" set is also the D.A.I.S.I.E. Club graphics so those of you purchasing the April D.A.I.S.I.E. Club will have the art to go with the quick pages to create more pages on your own should you wish.

Thank you all for making my blogging experience such a joy.  I get up each morning thinking about what I will share with you that day.  It's hard to believe that I've only been writing here now for a little over 2 months!!!  We just passed 20,500 visits yesterday… all I can say is WOW and Thanks from the depths of my heart.

Audrey Jeanne Roberts