A big bee

Not sure I can really catch up on all the haps over the past few weeks. Finally got my seeds planted March 28, which turns out to be a month later than in 2010.  They are being pretty slow but I should be able to transplant tomatoes at the end of the week provided I have time to weed out a place for them in the garden.

Have been busy rooting out elm suckers. Saturday was a pretty nice day and I spotted this guy darting about in the front garden.  He was darned hard to photograph, since he would constantly dart about and then return to hoover over the Salvia, which wasn't blooming, I think he was just guarding his spot.  I got lucky with this photo.  I took a look at the back garden and saw several of these guys mixing it up.  Haven't seen the males before (ever!) or since, but the females are around because they like my sweet peas var "Matacuna" which have naturalized in my yard.

Things are about as green as they can get these days.  Have taken to biking around the lake after our trip up the hill.