"When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf"

[Alatáriël Lossëhelin]

What's blooming, everyone?

The roadside bluebonnets have pretty much disappeared and my bearded irises have come and gone. However, my roses and cannas are beginning to bloom. Fortunately, the grasshoppers have not descended on me like the perverbial plague yet. The past couple of years they have pretty much decimated my flower beds, and I'm too discouraged to replant. Maybe next spring...