Due to continuing distancing restrictions and safe handling precautions, I will not be festooning y’all’s doorsteps with tiny bouquets of May flowers. However, digital delivery to your inbox or browsers is safe and effective, no allergy medicines necessary. May you enjoy your Day.

I setup my sky chair in the backyard, since the weather has been beautiful, and put up a sunshade, just in case I fall asleep. Not likely to happen now, since putting up the shade I’ve had caterpillars and spiders rain down on me. The puppy takes offense when I jump off the chair with a yelp. I do not have herpetophobia, the fear of slithery crawly things, but I prefer to not have them drop on me.

Saying “rogue arugula” just makes me smile. That one arugula survived the freeze in a completely different location than the original planting is also amusing. There are no plants where I planted them two years ago. I must say that I don’t like arugula. I think it tastes like rubber smells. But the flowers are pretty.

I was so excited that my thyme seeds were sprouting, until the second set of leaves appeared. All those hundreds (if not thousands) of seedlings are not thyme, they are cedar elm. So many cedar elm. Apparently cedar elm seeds survive a deep freeze just fine, in fact, they may even like it. We will be seeding native grass and clover to replace the grass death, but I need to do something about the carpets of tiny trees where I don’t want scrub brush.

These pictures are not from my yard as we are renovating our front beds and my husband is putting in irrigation. We went to gardens nearby to see the spring flowers and walk the trails.