So I just had a birthday

I just had a birthday and this was one of the best presents ever. That there is St. Francis. I have been wanting a St. Francis bird feeder for quite some time. Until just recently I hadn't seen one I liked. When I came upon this one in a Plow and Hearth catalog some months ago, I knew this was the one for me. I promptly planted the catalog, open to the page it was on, exactly where I knew Alan would see it. He got the hint too!! I am very pleased - it is 32 inches tall and really just makes the garden area. It will look even better when the coriopsis fills in more around him. And I want to find a red dogwood to use where I moved a rose from - it will be wonderful when it is done!!

I did a little rearranging of the garden areas. There was getting to be too much stuff in the area where Francis now resides. I moved most of the star gazer lilies, a yellow colored euonymus, and a rose that wasn't doing so hot. I had an idea for this area and it was getting too far away from that original idea. It looks much neater and simpler now.

I moved most of what I dug up to the area between the sidewalk and the road. I think it will all look pretty good once it grows in. Now my next project is on the side of the house where I planted a white dogwood 2 years ago, I think. I want to put some red azaleas and another low growing evergreen over there to spruce it up some. I think it will look great once it gets all in.