I ran out to get
a picture of the morning sun highlighting the blossoms of my Adams Crabapple tree. It's buds start out a deep pink, almost a burgundy, then fade to medium pink and finally a light pink, as they age. I think in another day or two the blooms will be spent and start to fall. But it's sure been enjoyable while it's lasted!I attacked the west side of the house and removed more leaves from FB#5, then cut back the burned stems and leaves of the Cawtaba Rhoho. Last winter this shrub burned and I wondered, could it be it's position? Now that it's happened two years in a row, I know it is definitely getting wind burn from being on the NW corner of the house. This fall I will have to do some sort of a burlap wrap, because it's really taking damage. Maybe even put a wax coating on the leaves.
After lunch I "finally" mowed the West side of the lower driveway, Tiers W2 & W3, for the first time this spring. This grass gets very little sun and grows slowly, but it was due. I also picked up the last of the sticks by the boulder area of this part of the yard.
I didn't get it mowed none too soon either, because a thunderstorm moved in shortly after. It carried enough of a punch that our lights blinked off/on a couple of times. We were in the high 70's when it hit, and after the storm went through it was in the 50's. I worried about hail . . . thank God we didn't get any.
