Finally Spring!

I haven't been a very good blogger

lately.  I have become enamored with

Instagram and it is so easy

to post pictures that I often

post things there rather than blogging.

(If you are on Instagram, my

username is karenavengibson).

But today, as I gazed out my

back window, I got excited about spring 

and decided to blog.

I spent the week last week

in Houston, Texas where the

flowers were BEAUTIFUL.

When I left Colorado Springs, a few things

were blooming, but not much.

When I got home, Spring had Sprung.

This is a snowball bush
that we planted last year.
I had never seen this bush
before we moved here.
I have seen huge ones with
flowers that look just like snowballs.
Mine is still a baby bush.

Purple ground cover.

I love the way it grows amongst the rocks.

This picture and the next are supposedly
the same bush.  Maybe just a
different variety???
I love purple, so these blooms
make my day.

Views from the deck.

Happy Spring, everyone.
I no longer have to be jealous of
my southern friends.