It rained today---a beautiful, warm rain that will keep everything green for some time now. The quality of light and color is just gorgeous, so many shades of green accented by occasional flowers, and I spent as much of my day outside in it getting as wet as I could---the morning in the garden and on the bike (inside), a beach trip in the afternoon and a bath on my deck in the evening. Photos won't capture it, but I had fun trying.
I am really enjoying my garden right now; it's so lush and green, and really pleasant to spend time in. I added a lot of manure, mulch and topsoil this winter, and it has responded by exploding with green this spring. The fuchsias haven't started to bloom yet, but I'm starting to see the first buds---so here are shots to record my shade garden in high spring, before the summer changes start to happen.