Overcast, With A Chance of Snow

This is my Nosebud,

(nicknamed for the sleigh, Rosebud, in Citizen Cane,)

sitting at her favorite "perch" in the house

the bow window in the kitchen

facing the backyard.

Normally when she is in the window

she is "yowling" for me

to comb her with the 'furminator."

I find it amazing

that I bought this comb

for Indy's shedding

and Nosy

(her real name)

is the one who loves it.

Indy normally runs when she sees it.

Behind Nosebud,

looking out the window

you can see the limbs of our Cherry Tree.

Gene has no idea what type of Cherries these are

but the squirrels

and birds

go nuts for them.

As you can tell from this picture

it's canopy covers almost the whole back yard.

This makes the kitchen

one of the coolest spots in the house

in the summer

If you were looking directly out the center window

of the three in the bow,

this is what you would see,

my little garden of daffodils.

I am SO PLEASED

that they have multiplied the way they have.

Here is our cigarette plant!

LOLOL

I wanted to get a good picture of the Coral Bells

and when I uploaded this

I saw the cigarette

resting perfectly on the leaves.

Gene has a LOT of cigarette cleaning to do in the back yard.

He uses the whole thing

as his own, personal, ashtray all winter

which really irritates me.

Oh well . . stuff happens.

Now to show you the progress of our PASQUE FLOWER.

Here is what it looked like

on Easter Sunday

only two blooms,

but they were on time.

Legend has it that they start their blooms on Easter Sunday

and so far, ours always has started that day.

 This morning, we had some sun

and I was lucky enough to get a picture of them opened up.

I had just gotten up and went out front in the sleep shirt,

neighbor from across the street yells,

"What do you think this is, Club Med?"

So I guess I was safe . . it must have looked like a swim cover up.

 Later on in the morning,

it started to cloud up outside,

we ended up with a little rain,

and this is how the flowers responded.

From the front you can see that they

have closed up their blooms

(which they do every night.)

From the back one can really tell the blooms are closed,

except for the two farthest back.

Here is what the two that were actually opened look like.

Notice how the petals have a little fuzz on them?

When the pollinating is over

and the petals fall off,

the yellow stamens will get longer

and the whole plant will have an almost

space like, star burst quality.

This is a fun flower to watch as it goes through it's blooming season.

Oh,
on the News at Noon
they did say we had a chance of *S*N*O*W*
later today
but it would probably be in the Southern Tier
so not to worry.

Signed,

I am finally Getting a Cleaned Out Garage

(8020)