For The Beauty of the Earth.

 Tomorrow, April 22nd, is Earth Day.

We have been getting our hands, and knees, and tools in the earth plenty here at the Reeder Homestead. The garden is looking spiffy, and we are feeling "stiffy". Is that a word? :-)

We've done a lot of cleaning up and clearing out and cutting off. I have scraped off moss and cleaned up edges. Tom has transplanted seedlings from his greenhouse and tended all of his geranium cuttings. Extras from our garden is being readied for sister Laurie's plant sale in May. 

Early bloomers have made way for later April flowers. Spring is beautiful, and lots of work.

Our tulips are blooming.

My color combination this year.

We always have a clump of Princess Irene Tulips.

And Fringe tulips.

It's apple blossom time. We don't get many apples anymore - too cold and too shady- but we like the trees and blossoms. 

This is one place where I worked, cutting edges and scraping moss. 

As we work in the garden we enjoy looking back across the garden to take in the whole of it. 

The photo below was taken about two weeks ago. I have it on my desktop screen. Inside or outside, I love our garden, even when it makes me work too hard. 

Wednesday, Earth Day, we are going on a garden club outing to a 5000 year old peat bog at Shadow Lake Nature Preserve. We may also walk some trails in the preserve, and then do lunch. Rain is coming later today, over night, and Wednesday morning, just in time for our outing, wouldn't you know.  But we Northwesterners can do rain. 

I'll let you know if I can stick it out. 

Happy Earth Day!