Wisteria

The wisteria is in full bloom and is a buzz with bees and enormous bumble bees!  I love its heady fragrance - quite intoxicating!

Have a gorgeous weekend.

Spring in my step

Its a gorgeous day today and although the weather forecast is not great for the rest of the weekend, waking to a blissfully sunny Friday morning makes me feel wonderful!  There's nothing like the feeling of spring to get one inspired and motivated to do things.  Even Emma woke with the resolve to do a bit of a spring clean in her room this weekend.  My 'to do' list is getting quite long so I need to get cracking with things if I am ever going to get them done.  Happy Friday everyone!

Image scanned from a House & Leisure magazine clipping

Snowdrops

All over Cape Town there are signs of spring and I have seen bulbs starting to send up their shoots all over my garden and everyone else's (I am one of those neighbours who peers over walls into everyone's garden when we take the dogs for a walk or go for a bike ride).  Apart from my almond tree which is always one of the first to blossom (and sadly they are almost all gone already), snowdrops are the next to pop up all over the place.  Yesterday I picked some and put them in jars and they make me happy whenever I look at them - like these ones right at my front door!  My other favourite is jasmine - I 'steal' pieces of it when I pass jasmine creepers (I have a different variety of jasmine in my garden that doesn't come into flower until later) and put them in my car - they make it smell wonderful!

I'm not quite ready for winter to be over yet, but I love all the signs of spring.

First signs of spring

Our almond tree is in full blossom and it is absolutely glorious.  Its always one of the first signs of spring and all our neighbours always stop to admire it.  Unfortunately the blossoms never last as long as I would like - one strong wind or a downpour and they all end up as confetti on our driveway.

Another sign of spring and good things to come are the first strawberries of the season coming into the shops (not imported!)