Ah, Spring! Not yet but close.

THIS VINCA FLOWER GIVES NEW MEANING TO JUST A WALLFLOWER AT HEART!

It was 62 degrees here today and tomorrow might bring our first rain of the season, so I whipped out and bought new seeds and planted them this afternoon! Did my favorite Bourdeaux Spinach and Tatsoi! When I turned the soil over to make the rows to plant in, what I found was totally superb soil as a result  of having dug in 5 inches of compost last fall. Tomorrow, if it hasn't started to rain I'll add more compost to each side of my rows to dig in later as the seeds grow.

Making compost in the Southwest is one of the harder  things I've ever done in my gardening career as the lack of rain makes everything take forever to break down. With our lack of rainfall and diminishing snow covers to waste water on dead and dying plants rather than the living plants and
human uses makes no sense to me at all. There was a reason the Anasazis left!

We are running three weeks ahead of normal seasons. The herbs are all up, the tulips, daffodils, rose bushes are showing new leaves and buds are appearing on the fruit trees. Alas, it is still February!
What may we expect in March and April?

Trending now? Aging!

I love it...everything one reads is about the aging population and their little 'selfies.' Be it how they feel about getting older, writing their biographies, complaining about their ills  or just comparing notes on how badly life goes for them. Everywhere one turns these days aging is in the newspapers, magazines, books, internet and the local cafe. 

Get over it! We are all getting old, even the little kids in kindergarten....their days are numbered too. Hateful isn't it.

My dearest friend David has decided that men get crabby and quarrelsome and women just get slow! Oh, how I did disagree with him. Being an old  woman, I did agree about the crabby and self-centered old men, but we women don't get slow...it just seems that way to old crabby men!

I live in a town with an older than average population and witnessing the poor behavior of some of the elderly makes me sad. So many have little enthusiasm for our wonderful planet earth or in improving their relations with the people around them. Male or female, they tend to be self-centered, argumentative and appear to me to be depressed.  Because of this their health is impaired, cancers, heart diseases, mental illness and other scourges plague them.

Sad as it is that people have become so narcissistic that each feels they are the only beings on earth who truly feel or know and believe they are right. None of us are perfect and the older we get the less perfect we become.

Just enjoy life, one day at a time. Given the government we are stuck with in this country all of we old people really need to cool it.

63 degrees and the daffodils are coming up!

Well that was the 30th and now it's the 4th and we have snow! Lovely, very wet snow.

It was only three inches but that is enough to stem the drought a tiny bit. It was also raining for a short time and that will help even more.

I need a consensus on the poor surviving Aspen clump in the left of the photo. Those two lonely sticks. All the other trees died due to gopher holes and lack of sufficient moisture.  Should I plant more so that it looks like it should or try and transplant these to a more hospitable site? They are about  20 feet tall and probably heavy but we can move them.....so? What shall I do?