in celebration of the first day of spring, we decided to go on a bike ride this morning. i made scones and hard boiled eggs to take with us, along with hibiscus tea and clementines.
i don't think we had been biking since summertime.
once again, we were searching for pansies (i had a print out of the pansy pages from anna botsford comstock's handbook of nature study). instead we found "campanula portenschlagiana," or hoffman's blue, or dalmation bellflower.
it's a good ground cover plant and blooms profusely.
i believe they can keep many of their green leaves through the winter. the older leaves are coarser; the younger ones more smooth and lighter in color.
morgana's entry . .
chanda's entry . .
we read about the hyacinth . .
from this book which my friend carol gave me about a year ago.
we also observed the buds beginning on the purple plum tree chanda studied last year. i hope to get out in the next week to sketch the buds on the trees we were observing. we have the fall sketches, but not spring and summer.
Your girls are really good at drawing! Looks like a perfect bike-trip. (Please don't fall over anything!)
ReplyDeleteha ha! hi christine! thank you :) we often fall over the gate separating the cats and dog :O we hope you are soon knitting again!
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely bike ride. I planted up our pansies and forget me not's this morning and our hyacinths are blooming! I do love spring so much!
ReplyDeletehello pip, the aroma of the hyacinths always makes me happy.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice outing! We call these blue flowers "periwinkle." Is that wrong? They are in our yard.
ReplyDeletethat's them! they have so many names!
DeleteThanks! Flora loves to pick them.
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