April and Stuff...

Daisies are the flowers of April, so whilst walking the dogs at the park yesterday, and with camera in hand, I took the new Meandering photo for the month of this lovely little clump growing under an oak tree.  

Though the weather vacillates between torrential downpour and tropical heatwave, we have managed some great walks with our critters lately, sometimes getting home just in the nick of time before the latest storm sweeps across the Valley.  April is definitely an interesting weather month... 

"April cold with dropping rain
Willows and lilacs brings again,
The whistle of returning birds
And trumpet-lowing of the herds."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

- T. S. Eliot

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."

- William Shakespeare 

"A gush of bird song, a patter of dew

A cloud and a rainbow's warning;

Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue

An April day in the morning!"

- Harriet Prescott Spofford

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Today is a busy day outside as the guys get everything prepared for tomorrow's big delivery of all the plants, trees and shrubs.  I'm just a bit nervous as I don't want a structured, uniform, too-planned kind of garden; I'm looking for a rugged, blending in, wow-how-cool kind of landscape.  I sure hope that's how it turns out.

Regardless--and nerves aside--I am very excited.  April seems like the perfect month to have this happen, doesn't it..??  Many photos will be taken, starting tomorrow, and no doubt continuing on through the week as things unfold.  I have crossed fingers that we've chosen wisely enough to avoid a "come and get it" smorgasbord for the deer.

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I have some cool stuff to post, but I'm going to save it for tomorrow's Coffee Break.  I will leave you with this however, and hope it brings a smile to your Monday...