I'd Rather Be....

...in my garden.

I'm sure every one of us would rather be in 

their garden right now.

Some of you lucky ones are probably

already out there having fun in the dirt

like my blogging buddy Cynthia from

Beatnheart

But...this is what it looked like

Tuesday here in our part

of Kansas.

We were lucky

as we got more wind than snow 

with this last winter storm.

I know some of you out there got hit

pretty bad. This has been 

a terrible winter for many of you

in the east and northeast and

some in the mid-west.

I'm afraid spring will be a long way 

off for many of us this year so

if you are like me...you will be spending 

some of that indoor time thumbing through

seed catalogs and dreaming of getting 

your hands dirty.

This is what I dream of when I think of spring.

These photo's are of the 

first year of our front garden when

we lived in the city.

It was a LOT of work putting this garden in

as we started from scratch with

hard clay soil.

After LOTS of compost, manure,

and lots of other good stuff

we were ready to start

planting.

By the time we left the city for the country

the garden was 5 years old

and was a well established

cottage garden full

of David Austin

climbing and

shrub roses

and many other perennials.

Looking back at these photo's makes me

realize how much work we have in store

for us here in the country.

The picket fences have to be finished before 

we can start on the garden but

I've already got drawings

made and my plant list

started.

COME ON SPRING!

I'm linking with Tracie from

Fishtail Cottage

for

Cottage Flora Thursday

I hope you'll pop on over to visit Tracie's

wonderful blog and check out

all the other garden bloggers

who are taking part

this week!

Are you already making plans for your garden?

Maura :)