Enjoying Spring!

Yesterday I took a quick spin around Roger's Gardens. It was beautiful as usual. They had some great urns jam packed with succulents. So it gave me an idea.

I bought 4 of these succulents and went home and gathered the gazing ball, some green glass rocks that I had and planted the bird bath. ( Don't feel sorry for the birds, the bird bath was too deep for them, they have a great time in our fountain.)

So I put the gazing ball in the middle instead of another plant, put the succulents around it and filled in the gaps with the glass rocks.

My snapdragons are growing like mad and the bunnies seem to leave them alone. My ranunculus on the other hand are being devastated by the bunnies and so are my fairy primroses.

The saga of the bunny is ridiculous. I put up chicken wire, he finds a way in. I plug the hole, he digs another. I've almost got the whole fence buttoned up - a hole at a time. The chicken wire did a great job for two years keeping the bunnies out, then the association made me take it down so they could paint the fence. I had a neighbor boy put it back up and it looked like it went all the way to the ground, but there was just enough space to give a bunny hope!

I recently planted this urn with succulents as well. They are popular right now and great for my backyard which faces west and gets the hot sun all day.

For my birthday, my friend Marlene gave me all these succulents in a beautiful little wire planter. I didn't hang it fast enough and our puppy Gus tore out the moss. So I planted them all in here. I like the way it turned out! You can see my fairy primrose in the background. Leaves growing like crazy, but no flowers. Bunnies eat them every night.

God is so creative in his design. No detail left undone!

Picnic Time

Ah, springtime!  Such beautiful days, warm sunshine and many hours of daylight make you just want to go on a picnic.  A couple of weeks back, I decided I wanted a picnic basket.  My mom had one ever since I can remember.  Not an expensive basket, not prefilled with goodies, just a good ol'fashioned picnic basket.  I started the hunt.  I found various websites on which to buy.  The problem was, they were all $150 - $250 each.  (I saw them as high as $45,000, who buys that?)
I couldn't fathom laying out that kind of money for a picnic basket.  (I'm sure my mom got ours at K-mart.  She worked there for 20 years and came home with all kinds of deals.)  I considered asking for one for Mother's Day or something like that.  I even mentioned it to Alyssa.  The girls could all go in (and daddy).  Then I was at HOMEGOODS and I came across some PICNIC BASKETS.  The exact one I considered getting at  PICNICWORLD  was sitting on the table for a third of the price.
It came with all these goodies, it was in perfect condition and I love it!  So glad I waited.
It is made of sturdy construction and should last us forever!  It is for four, but I can easily turn it into a basket for 6.  I'm already considering changing out the plates and napkins to something more feminine.