Playing Catch Up

Where has the time gone? It's already mid-June. Warmer weather, trees, and flowers are in full swing in Alaska - FINALLY! It's been so nice out the last couple of weeks.

It seems that things are settling down a bit. The last several weeks I've had 2 weeks of being sick :( and then a week and a half of busy-ness with business, errands, and trying to get a quilt top finished in time for an outdoor quilt show. I did get the quilt top done at 11:30 the night before the show, which was followed by a short night of sleep and an early morning working, racing back to see part of a parade, and then getting to the quilt show. I hope to get the quilt show photos up very soon.

My goal for this week is a couple of bentos (they really help cut down on the lunches out), some catch-up blogging (I've got a backlog of photos and things to share), and a generally less busy week. Hope it is fantastic for all!

The garden is waking up!

I took a look around yesterday and found these things starting to come alive in my flower beds.

The first is my bleeding heart. Last fall I split it in 2 because it has gotten so overgrown. I was happy to see it come back this year, I just wasn't sure if it would.

This is rhubarb just starting to come up. I've got 2 big bunches of it. This is one of the heads (?) - I really don't know what you call it at this stage, but my husband refuses to look at it whether in real life or in a picture. He said it's gross. :) I think it looks like some kind of sea creature.







No idea what this is - maybe a tulip?

















This is blue delphinium. I should have cleared out the old dead stuff at the end of last season, but once it freezes and the plants die I'm just not interested in tending to the garden.