my first bloom

planted my rose bush four weeks ago. I am so impressed. (and happy.)

YAY, pretty color!

Good Job...love the color.

thank you. I was really surprised it bloomed so fast, I was expecting another 3-4 weeks. Checked this morning and another bud is about to bloom as well.

Cool thing about roses...once they get started they just take off.

Yeah, the wife and I are giddy like a couple of kids in a candy store.

Amazing isn't it? Who'da thunk a flower could make ya so happy? GRIN

yeah, and the wife is even more giddy, some of her strawberries are getting ripe.

How cool...the Ponchatoula Strawberry festival is this weekend...soon there will be berries everywhere.

Yeah, and my Mulberry tree are dropping berries like crazy. My daughter calls it red dandruff.

Grin. I'll bet the birds are in paradise

well, i dont know about in paradise but they're getting fat. lol

We had a very happy Camphor tree at our old house in BR...every year the bluejays would show up to eat the fermenting berries....dark purple berries and a white car.....UGH. But they were so funny to watch because they would actually get a bit drunk from the berries and flap and squawk and flutter around the yard.

hahaha i'm picturing blue jays with rosey cheeks and hic-ups

I can tell you they are noisy drunks...grin

in louisiana, a quiet drunk is a very rare thing

There may even be a law against it...grin

the other day i've seen a birdhouse that resembled a small town bar, may have to get it. haha

especially if ya have fruit trees or camphor trees...grin

maybe i'll have to get a cardinal and hire him as a bouncer lol

Might have to call in the buzzards...no one hangs out with them...grin. funny memory...when my oldest son was 3 or 4 he saw his first clutch of Buzzards. We told him the name and when we got to Granny's house he ran inside and told her all about the big bunch of BROUSSARDS he saw by the side of the road..She was a bit perplexed as that is her neighbor's last name.

haha thats too funny. over here, the Fontenots are overpowering. therre's like five pages in the phone book with them.