The Mary Washington campus is very pretty, and has a ton of azaleas that were in full bloom. Gorgeous.

My cousin Math is graduating from college today, so I’m off for that.

Have some flowers to tide you over in the interim.

It’s Morgantown, so it’s raining.

Did a bit of gardening yesterday–went to the WVU Greenhouse plant sale and then took a trip to Lowes. Filled in the herb garden. The rosemary didn’t survive the winter (unsurprisingly, considering how cold it got this winter), and although some of the parsley came back (WTF?) I got more parsley, three tomato plants and two basil plants.

I also got some pansies to put in the boxes on the front deck.

At Lowes we got a dogwood to replace the broom in the back of the house that died, and bought a small broom to put at the front of the house, in the hopes it will do better than the one on the back of the house did.

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Here are some of the flowers in my yard this week.

This morning the temperature was 30 and it had rained all night. This evening the weather was beautiful.

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And all from my yard.

We have several lavender plants along the driveway. It’s nice to be able to stop and smell the lavender on the way to work.
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It was in some ways a painfully long weekend, and in other ways the weekend was entirely too short.

I’m still having issues with my depression. Destroying my cell phone on Saturday didn’t help matters, not did having to plunk down $400 to replace it. But. That’s why we have savings–so when things break (for whatever reason) they can be replaced. So it’s just no new computer for me anytime soon.

The depression was incredibly frustrating. Just one of those days where I can’t stand being inside my own skin, and nothing I did really allowed me to escape myself, although I did managed to distract myself.

I kept busy by doing a fair amount of web design over the weekend, rebuilding the WordPress template for my book blog and then recreating the same style for the book pages of my website. I’m overdue a rebuild of my main page, but I don’t have a clue what I want to do with it, and abandoning the color scheme means having to create a new set of images. Since I’ve got probably 30 or so images that randomly appear, that idea is rather unappealing right now.

Speaking of images, I test drove Adobe Elements over the weekend. I have Photoshop at work, but there is no way I am going to pay that much money for a software package, and I’m one of those weirdos that refuses to pirate software or music, to Elements seemed the logical choice.

Having played with it, it seems precisely what I need, so at some point I’m going to have to cough up the money for that. But it’ll be worth it, because it’ll be nice to do image work at home (and goodbye to Corel Photopaint 10).

The predicted storms never came, so Saturday afternoon was sunny, as was today, so I got to get out and enjoy the flowers, just a little bit. And posted the requisite Sunday Flower Pr0n.

I also finally finished my review for A Short History of Myth.

Here’s to hoping this week goes smoothly.

Daffodil edition.

I’m not a huge fan of the shade of yellow of most daffodils. But I do like the lighter yellow ones, and the multi colored ones. We have a variety blooming in my yard right now.

It’s been a beautiful day, so I took a quick walk outside at lunch. The camera I carry with me is less than awesome, so although I saw lots of gorgeous flowers, few pictures turned out nicely.

Just a reminder how much I prefer my Canon point and click to the HP point and click.

Gotta enjoy the spring flowers while they’re around.

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Despite the forecast we had sun Saturday. I didn’t see a lot of it, but I did get out in the (squelchy wet) yard and check on my plants and take some pictures.

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OK, not wild exactly, but I’m enjoying photographing the spring flowers. There’s something about the young stems and flowers of early spring plants that is so delicate, which is in direct opposition to the fact that these plants and flowers have to survive late snows, frosts, and occasional freezing temperatures.

Sunday afternoon was beautiful at the arboretum. Temperature was about perfect at 59, the sun was shining, and it was just beautiful for walking around.

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Here are some pictures from my yard–things are starting to bud.

I have two bleeding heart plants, an all white and the more typical pink and white. This is the pink and white, which seems to like it’s location and is now spreading. Hoorah! More plants! For free!
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