A MOTHER'S DAY GARDEN

Our son David drove over from Kennewick for a couple of days to visit and do a little "Mother's Day" gifting, and after doing our running around Friday, we all decided to stick around the house Saturday. David picked up on his Momma's desire to "do something" with the prepared flower bed near the front door. After juggling the few purchased flowers around a bit, rounding up a few mossy rocks from elsewhere in the yard, another trip to Walmart/Home Depot for additional blooming plants, and a few hours of getting into the compost, a beautiful gift for Momma emerged.

OK, The calendar says it's really a Memorial Day display and the plants selected do feature reds and white and blues - very patriotic. In the back corner will be dahlias and camas lilies when they come up; those should come back next year. The other flowers are perennials, so there is some hope of seeing them again too. Probably other additions will join the initial group as other pretty and appropriate choices are spotted through the rest of springtime.

As the project neared its finish and the clean-up was done and tools put away, the proud landscape architects consented to a photo commemoration. Look at 'em grin! So, David, Thank You for giving your Momma a Flower Garden. You made her mighty happy! (And therefore, me too!)


PS Almost everything survived the one-inch-in-an-hour thunderstorm downpour a few hours later as a record breaking rainfall caused instant flooding locally and caused 4" of water to stand on our inclined gravel driveway and in the rings around our yard trees because there was just nowhere else for it to go for nearly the whole hour. Now we have had our storm drubbing like others; a big mess, but no serious damage here, thank goodness.