One thing I love about the High Plains is the way the plants change from year to year, depending on the amount of rain.   This is going to be a sunflower year, they're everywhere!   Unfortunately, so is the hemlock---I've been pulling it in the oddest places, particularly around my front porch.

Meet Chubby

This is Chubby....he was hatched by a laying hen who didn't know how to be a mother, so he is in the house in a box with a heat lamp and a stuffed husky.  He loves his stuffed husky---he thinks it's his mother and snuggles right up to it or crawls on top of it, peeping sweetly.

I did not know that peonies smelled like roses....my friend gave me a magenta peony and it smells like a Sitka rose.....how wonderful.

Turning into a beautiful day!    I'm working on orders and thinking about the weeds....I'm sure they'll be waiting for me tomorrow if I don't get to them today.
No beach in my immediate future, but I do have shells--these make me happy.

Ai, for goodness sakes, here I thought I was actually blogging again and nothing was publishing!  It was all hung up in drafts. I think I'm too old for this stuff....hopefully it's all there this time.
Apologies to anyone who just saw a strange mish-mash of posts come through.

I will add some cuteness...