Spring fever...

I was looking out the kitchen window yesterday when I saw the most beautiful sight... a deep red cardinal sitting on the fence, just above yellow daffodils (my favorite color combination... red and yellow).  I ran outside to take a picture and thought I'd missed the bird until I uploaded the pictures to the computer.  While not the best view... you can still see how pretty it looked.

Just waiting for warm weather...

I was able to get out to the garden yesterday for the very first time this spring, stopping by the garden shed first to pick out a rake.  I can only do a little at a time so yesterday I raked the layer of wet leaves off the garden beds.  There was the smell of fresh DIRT, a wonderful aroma after a long and snowy winter.

These beauties took me completely by surprise!

When I was taking pictures of the pretty bird, I saw the view of the deck and house which can't be seen from the window.  There were dozens and dozens of daffodils along the deck and then these beauties near the back of the house (you can tell I have yet to cut back dead perennials, too). 

The flowers had been beaten down during a hail storm a couple nights ago but they were just fine in a vase.  :)

These daffodils are white and yellow

These daffodils are two shades of yellow

Living on a fixed income (and really getting hit hard by inflation!), it is such a joy to have a house full of flowers... free!  How like our God to give us these yellow flowers when nothing else is blooming.