Beautiful day to garden

It was a beautiful day today to be outside.  The sun was warm but the temperature was on the cool side.  I bought 6 bags of topsoil yesterday & 3 bags of mulch... and I wanted to get them used up today so I could buy the same allotment after I picked up Caboose from school this afternoon.  Mission accomplished.

I filled up some holes in the yard with the topsoil & then transplanted a few things into a little garden patch I have right next to the house on the east side... ending with the mulch.  It's not very wide... only about 4 ft... and it's edged by huge railroad ties.  I remember when DanMyMan edged that garden for me.  It was no small feat but he did it simply because I desired it done.  God bless that man!

A few weeks ago I transplanted some lavender sage into this garden patch & moved around some mum plants too, along with moving my HUGE lavender plant into this new location as well.  It was still sort of bare & I knew right what I wanted to do.... there was a flowering "something" next to the fence that I'd been wanting to move for the longest time & today that time had come.  The bush produces delicate pink blossoms in the spring and when I dug it up, it divided itself into 3 separate bushes.  I  happen to believe in Divine Providence so I think God meant for that to happen so I could "spread the love" around & have three separate flowering "somethings" in this particular garden patch.  I'm grateful.



I need a focal point of some sort in this patch & I'm not sure what it's going to be yet.  But it definitely needs a little something to catch the eye.  We'll see what I can come up with in the next day or two.  I'll think of something, I know.

After I was done (the gardening job took me 2 hrs. this morning... from 9-11am) I was walking to the stairs to come into the house & I saw a little friend in another garden patch I have out front.  This little friend had a long tongue that kept darting out as she looked in my direction. :-)  I could tell that she had been laying in the sun before I disturbed her.  I think she enjoyed the sun on her skin every bit as much as I did this morning.  It did feel soooo good out there today.  Fresh spring air, sunshine, a slight breeze, butterflies everywhere, bees humming... the season has unequivocally changed from winter to spring. 
 I think both my friend & me were more than glad about that fact this morning.