Springtime in the south

As usual, I haven't posted in months, but now that it is springtime and the semester is almost over (2 more weeks, yay!) I have been inspired to use my blog as a garden journal since that topic is something that's actually fun to write about (as opposed to school, which is just torturous and no one wants to hear me complain all the time anyway). This past weekend was supposed to be the best weekend for planting according to the farmers almanac (which was independently confirmed by Shawn's grandfather, who is a walking farmers almanac). My plans were thwarted due to the heavy rains last week, which made the ground too wet to make up the rows with the tractor (although it would have been fun to play with the tractor in the mud, but Shawn was not enthused with that idea, dang it!) So hopefully I can plant this weekend, although it's been getting down to the low 30s at night, so we'll have to keep an eye on the weather forecast. It sure seems like spring has been playing hide and seek this year, we even got a freak snow shower a few weeks back and it had been in the 70s the week before, very strange! Many of the trees are in full bloom right now (as well as the azaleas) and I thought I'd share this picture I took Sunday (it's actually the view from my kitchen window, pretty sweet huh?)