Cleaned Up And Ready For A Little Party

 

Down on the garden deck, the Wisteria is blooming, just in time for Mother's Day. The deck is cleaned up, swept, and looking spiffy.

The pink native rhododendron is beginning to bloom, peeking through the wisteria.

Today Tom hung the old windows on the deck, two from our old Whidbey cabin, decorated with Rusty Birds, and one a craft project with resin "stained glass".

It's pretty walking the path to the deck now, with so much green texture and interesting things blooming, like this Inside-out Flower, Vancouveria hexandra, a Northwest native. 

I spent much of a day cleaning the back wall of the house, by the patio, where we have collections. Everything was taken down, cleaned, and put back.

On another day I refreshed the succulent pots and we completed the display on the patio.

The succulents joined the "danger plants". Can you see why we call them that?

Now I am inside, resting after having prepped for Sunday's Mother's Day dinner here.

The table is mostly set, and the flowers are arranged.

We will use my mother's old dishes. 

The Mac salad is made, the fruit is collected for the fruit compote. Bread and chips are purchased. There will be asparagus. I bought a turkey for Christmas before Jill announced that we were not having turkey, so we are BBQ smoking it for Mother's Day to make turkey sandwiches with rosemary bread, cream cheese, and cranberry sauce. Jill is bringing the drinks and the rhubarb cobbler. It'll be the regular family, minus Irene, who is staying in Bellingham. 

The tulips are almost done but I found a few for the kitchen table. 

Happy Mother's Day!