Long Point- Spring gardening

Spring chores here include taking down the snow fence and solid fences, putting up the privacy fence and lots and lots of sand shovelling as the bulldozer can't get right up close to the cottage. That is nearly completed but time was ticking away, so the vegetable beds had to be prepared (dug over and compost dug in) and planted. Victoria Day weekend.

This year it is pole beans, cherry tomatoes, green peppers, kale, garlic, bush beans, beets, lettuce, basil and oregano.

Also English Daisies and Pansies in the pots by the steps

and of course Pansies on the porch posts.

After a hard day of gardening I broke my "no drinking alone" rule and had a glass of wine while surveying the fruits of my labours. I like to have my morning coffee on the deck overlooking the lake and sometimes relax with a book, in the afternoon, on that deck too, but I like to sit on the "back" deck in the evening sun. From here I can also watch the birds at the feeders.

There's always red winged blackbirds, they eat me out of house and home (along with a chipmunk who also has a voracious appetite)

Blue Jays, Sparrows, Finches

Cardinals, Nuthatches, Grackles, Cowbirds, Mourning Doves

Hummingbirds

and a Downy Woodpecker who likes some nectar for dessert after the suet. The Orioles are, so far, too shy to get their pictures taken but they can drink the feeder dry in a couple of days.

A very entertaining end to the day.