Watching Tom Work

There's a lot of gardening to do in March.  I can't do it.  So while I would usually be out there working along side Tom, this year I am relegated to watching him work. I did prune the roses yesterday, but my back was not too happy with me.

 Yesterday he trimmed the juniper hedge along the driveway.

Then he got started on cutting back all the sword fern fronds. He finished that job today.

 Partly done, but a lot more to go.

 I think maybe this is the last one!

 New frond fiddle heads are getting ready to unfurl.

A pile of old fronds awaits the next round of the yard waste bin pick up.

I went for a walk this afternoon and when I go back Tom was just finishing up, and said he had been visited by a pair of wrens.  I had my camera, but no zoom, but sure, enough, the wrens stopped by to say "Hi" to me too. 

 That little stone house is just decorative, but the Bewicks Wrens are nesting in the bird bottle on the side of the house.  They have nested here before and in the last week I have seen them bringing nesting materials. So exciting!

I went grocery shopping this morning and bought new flowers to arrange for the kitchen table.

 Outside things are blooming too - the first trilliums.

 And the marsh marigolds.