Flowers

Today was an absolutely beautiful day - sunny and breezy. So I took advantage of it and tackled the weeding of my flower bed along the house. What a chore! It was double the work since I did not remove any of the dead stuff last fall (little busy with a book deadline!)
This is the flower bed BEFORE:



And AFTER:



And here are the pretty pretty flowers that Carissa and Davy brought me for my birthday just a few weeks ago: