Coffee Perch Views

My birthday is on the first day of spring and every year it inspires me to grow weary of blah browns and start creating a canvas of vivid colors on our deck, where I drink my morning coffee, that helps me reconcile getting a year older at an age I am well aware of...I don't have all that many changes of seasons left. This is how my "coffee perch" garden grows so far this year.

 March rain on new plants is always welcome.

 

More butterflies are showing up but they don't

usually wait for me to run get the camera.

 

I place the birdseed bowl so that I can capture the visitors

from where I sit with my coffee and sometimes...the camera.

 

I have a variety of photo ops every day.

 

I see lots of pairs of Cardinals

 

And sparrows...

 

And Whitewing doves fixing to fly down from the live oak tree to eat...

natives of Mexico that have drifted

a little North.

 

I can zoom in on our fruitless pear tree and

yellow jasmine in the yard in bloom in early March.

 

Or the dogs resting by the brush pile they like to scatter...

 

Or the neighbors loaded kumquat tree...

 

Or one of my geraniums....

 

Or a rain soaked rose...

 

Or our wonderfully fragrant Mountain Laurel...

 

In the evenings I often see these almost "see through" little subterranean

lizards come out to look for bugs I suppose.

 

And enjoy the softness of a solar light framing

my ornamental peppers.

I still wonder at how fast Mother Nature can make things grow...with the help

of a little sun, a little rain, a little TLC, and some Miracle Gro. It all makes me

forget I got a year older last month..