Windy and Warm

 This geranium variety has single flowers on its fancy leafted plant. The variety can be invasive but easily cut back,

 while wandering in the front yard I noticed with surprise that this iris has buds on it. It is one of my favorites and originally was in a cemetery where I harvested one rhizome.  Photos will follow as the warm air is helping for the blooms to form. It was a breezy but warm walk out there that seemed pleasant after a long winter. 

 

The next variety of tulips are now in bloom. It is a soft yellow and I seem to have spaced out some of them wildly with big spaces. 

 The locust tree has grown a lot since we moved here. It was a young tree and now is a full large specimen tree dominating our front yard. It is one of the reasons I haven't hurried to replace the one flowering tree that we lost last fall. It may be too many trees as this one keeps getting larger. 

I spent the morning driving back and forth to the hardware store for a water supply valve for our bathroom stool. The one that we had started making load noises as if it were the turn off valve went bad. I bought the first part to replace it and it was not just right. One connection was right but the supply tank connection was too small. I took the new one back, and the hose, and the old one back to the hardware.  I required communication with a guy who knew plumbing at the store. We finally found the right part and I returned home and replaced it. Then I returned one more time to the store because I wanted my money back for the wrong part. I did buy some soil for spreading on my one area in the yard where no grass is growing. I just carried the dirt back and forth with me and I will unload it tomorrow. 

I have too many wrongly purchased parts in my tool room that I really just had to make one more trip to get my money back. The helper showed me how to repackage it for the return. I felt like a yo-yo. They were glad to see me each time.  Thanks for stopping by today.