Random yard photos, plus pergola (canning kitchen)

Art has edged, weeded, rototilled, and brought in truckloads of mulch to get the yard in shape for the summer. It's taken days and days, but he's almost all the way around the backyard. I love our backyard!

The pansies in the front yard will be pulled today, so we can prepare the beds for summer.

Back yard pansies will face the same demise.

The little container has lupines, which Art will plant in the front yard. They're a very favorite old-time perennial flower.

Notice there's already a blosson set on this tomato plant.

Strawberries ready to set. There is an entire bed devoted to strawberries along the back of our house.

Grapes. Grape plants are also planted by three posts on the pergola. Art's hopeful they'll grow across the top to provide shade.

Rhubarb! We've made numerous cobblers to share, especially with Pete. Pete is in his 80s, and Art's his home teacher. Art has also given rhubarb to the neighbors for them to cook up. Art put new landscape timbers around this bed last year. He'll do the third bed next year. The original boarder rotted out, and these timbers will be much better. They also look nice. Art plans to mulch the area between the beds - so they don't have to be mowed, but will proivde a nice area for walking.

Peas

The iris are just beginning to bloom. We're sharing them with neighbors, too.

Notice the blueberries! Don't think we'll be freezing quarts of blueberries this year, but they have potential.

Blueberry Hill

Humm...another strawberry view.

Pop's Pergola - and future canning kitchen. The cement board against the fence will become the counter - with a tiled top, with drawers and cupboards.

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