Look at all the nature

This is a dove that is nesting in one of our potted plants on the porch.
We have a new nesting pair of doves every year near our house and in our backyard.
They are very sweet birds.

I have been extremely remiss in my blogging duties over the past several months. But my class at Columbia State has ended and I now have a very small smidgen of free time that I didn't have before. I have a whole folder of photos to put up here and I'm going to try to do it in categories. :-) This is the nature category...

This is a photo of the Great Flood that affected our area. This house is at the bottom of the hill from ours at the Golf Course. Our house and neighborhood is built quite a bit higher than this, and there is a creek that runs through the golf course that contributed to the flooding in these lower areas. The water has since receded and the families down here are going through repairs.

This is a great bush that I got from my editor Mindy, who attended the Franklin Arbor Day several years ago and picked up some freebies. This thing is great, blooms white and red and is very hardy. I think it's an oakleaf hydrangea, but I could be wrong!

A bird feeder from Gardener's Supply Company.

I got a great gift card for garden stuff at the Hosker family Christmas and this very cool bird feeder is one of the things I picked out. I also got some more tubtrugs to use for household stuff. They are very handy and I highly recommend them. For my birthday, I got another gift card from amazon from my mom and Don. I picked up a little garden cart that holds tools and plants. Richard calls it my radio flyer wagon with a degree in landscape design. I also got a VERY NICE set of gardening shears. Many lectures about not leaving them outside, cleaning them properly, etc have ensued. For some reason, the garden shears make me want to watch the Godfather.

These are the Bradford Pears blooming in early April. See, I told you I was procrastinating!