Nature-y day

Taking a cue from one of the values passed down to me from my mom we spent lots of time today just in the garden.  I'm trying to put in a little bed in the front yard for some perennial herbs and a few annuals too.  At our "Mother's Day garden center adventure" I picked up: rhubarb, an everbearing strawberry (we have a dedicated strawberry bed in the back yard), salvia, lavender, oregano, lemon balm, an eggplant, and a pepper (Ada's pick).  I'm going to wing it and add some annual and perennial flower seeds too- mostly intended for picking and bringing inside.  In the morning Emma helped me while Ada was at school.

We found a caterpillar.

She found it hilarious when it squiggled around. 

After we put Emma to bed, Ada came out and helped some more and we found some worms.

SO TICKLISH!

Back to the garden little worm

I was totally the kid who brought in a coffee can filled with soil and worms to first grade show and tell so this made me especially proud.

Then it was time to water.  Tony and Ada had planted some sunflowers along a fence and I had her do that all by herself after we did the vegetable garden together.  She took it pretty seriously and did an awesome job.

Note the mud kitchen in the background

Looking forward to a summer with my happy little gardeners.  

**For the first time I used picassa to upload these photos from my phone and they all have the weird grey line on the bottom.  Anyone know why?**