Friends Nancy and Bob win the "prize" for seeing the first hummingbird of the year on Saturday, April 24! They live about a mile from me, so I know it won't be long before I see one around my neck of the woods. I have gotten out the feeder, cooked up some nectar, hung it right outside the kitchen window, and I hope to see a hummer soon! When that window is open, I can hear the little chirp, chirp, chirps of the hummers and the buzz of the wings when they feed.
The long-awaited spring blooms have come and gone so quickly this year. I still, though, have some late flowering daffodils in bloom....cute, little ones. The yellow magnolia is done, as is the "Jane" magnolia....supposed to bloom late, but already done this year. The redbud is still in full bloom. Herb says the redbud is his favorite spring tree. My lilacs have been blooming for more than a week and will soon be done. If there is any fragrance more lovely than the scent of lilacs, I don't know what it is! I stop to smell them each time I pass by them....I have to store up the memory of that wonderful scent! If someone came up with a perfume that smelled exactly like a lilac, I'd wear it all the time!
Today, being cold and rainy, seemed like a good day to make a pot of vegetable soup. I get a mixture of beans, peas, and barley, soak for 2 hours, cook the mixture 'til the beans are cooked, then add V-8....it makes a wonderful soup base. Throw in lots of dried dill, as many vegetables as you can find....fresh or frozen....let simmer and serve with some kind of hearty bread that "fights back". No wimpy bread for me. I get rye bread from an online store that imports partially baked sour rye bread from Germany, and it's perfect with vegetable soup....especially still warm from the finish baking.
I've been filling in for a member (she's traveling in Europe!) of a handbell choir at Elmer Methodist Church. There will be a handbell concert at 4 o'clock on Sunday, May 2 at Vineland High School. Three church choirs are combining for the concert. It should be very impressive. Playing the handbells is great fun and quite challenging....maybe you'd like to come out to hear the concert. All those handbells should make for a really happy sound!
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Hello Susan, I found your blog when my Google Alerts for Naturally Yours found you. I own a company with the same name and thought I would just stop by to say hello. We make custom gift baskets (and blend and package specialty snack mixes). From the looks of it, you are a birder like me. Hope you get your first hummer soon! Mary Birdsong (yes, my real name!)
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