{Our Japanese Magnolia against Vinyl Picket Fence}

Don't know about you but here in Central Georgia, the South-East of the USA, we had a very long winter - quite stubborn. So much about all those idiots that still scream 'Global Warming'...

Usually the Japanese Magnolia bloomed around Mom's Birthday, February 12, but it took till March 5 for 2015!

Gorgeous blossoms on this Magnolia x soulangeana! Photo is from March 8...

This and the next photos, except last 3, are taken on March 7.
We did have some frost at night and because we were afraid they would turn brown, the photos were taken...

The final 4 segments of Vinyl Picket Fence have been added. First time that the Japanese Magnolia is having a picket fence backdrop!

The huge pine tree is gone now for over a year and the oak tree to the left had its lower limbs trimmed up, so now the Japanese Magnolia can grow out with enough space and light!

From there, a nice view of our home...

Guess within a couple of years the Magnolia will show more blossoms, it needs time to catch up.
This is how the heat resistant Centipede grass looks like in winter; brown.

The green grass you see here is not Centipede but another variety just to fill in where we had some erosion from the water that came from the higher part of the street. Now it gets blocked by the wall underneath the Vinyl Picket Fence!

So lovely to have spring blossoms!

Blue sky and Magnolia blossoms... Finally some beauty after years of browning due to frost!

We both are very pleased with this beautiful white vinyl picket fence backdrop.

This photo and the next ones are from Sunday, March 8. Just opened up a little bit more.

Perfect light too!

Are these not gorgeous?!

Sunday afternoon we took a long walk in the sunshine, it was still 21°C (70°F) by 6:00 PM and we just did change to daylight savings time the previous night.
Compared with Horst in The Netherlands, where it was by midnight (local time) 8°C, after their first gorgeous sunny day.
Happy Spring to all of you in the northern hemisphere!

{Fragrant Heirloom Daffodils & My Chocolate Addiction...}

Just being frank and honest; YES I am addicted to DARK Chocolate... On February 23, I did enjoy my LAST (!) piece of dark chocolate letter 'M' with my hot tea. They are all gone and I'm about to make me something chocolaty to enjoy. Do you like chocolate as well? Yes, I know I'm diabetes type 2 but I will NOT give up my dark chocolate. Hell no!

That's a dream, even with the sunshine lacking... 

Fragrant Heirloom Daffodils and a CHUNCK of Dark Chocolate!

If any of you out there love those chocolate letters, try to get some on sale at The Dutch Store Vander Veen's in Michigan, USA. 

Because of those dark days I had to go out on our balcony for having some light...

And there is the sun!

Perfectly teamed up with the  Mason's Mandalay Chartreuse vase and teacup.

Those Heirloom Daffodils are oh so fragrant!

Lovely for having some different fragrant varieties outside as well...

Lovely view from our bay window during breakfast...
We just made a long walk at 4:30 PM till 5:30 PM and look how warm it still was:

Yep: 28°C or 82°F at 16:23...

{Crocus near our Vinyl Picket Fence}

Since the huge pine tree has been cut down and the big oak tree trimmed up there was lots of space now for planting more bulbs near the Vinyl Picket Fence. So husband Pieter put out some Crocus...

We had so much rain that it was difficult for capturing these yellow crocus on camera...

This is February 23 and it made us happy to finally see some color!

This is the view from our bay window in the kitchen and the yellow daffodils are also starting to bloom.

That crocus patch could even have been bigger!

Our grass looks all winter like that, so dreary and dead...

At least these crocus are happy flower bulbs and blooming for weeks on end.

Let's hope spring will pull through finally!

Happy new week to all of you.