Spring Has Sprung!

Springtime is my favorite time of year!  I love it when the "brown world of winter" springs forth new life in the form of green grass, leaves on the trees, and wild flowers bursting with color.  I walked around our yard and snapped the following photos to remind me of how much I love this time of year!  

Sedum

Privet (has a stong sweet smell, similar to honeysuckle)

Iris

Spiderwort

I'm not sure what the name of these are.(I call them primrose) They grow along the field behind our house.

I'm not sure what these are either! They grow amidst the "primrose".

Honeysuckle

A Sea of Honeysuckle!

Indian Paint Brush

You can see why I love Springtime!  All this color ablaze just right around our house!

One thing I don't like about Springtime is the local "hoodlums" are cruising our country roads more than usual,  looking for "trouble", like "bashing mailboxes"!  The last few times they hit ours, Tom would leave the old beat-up box alongside the new one he installed.  We had a "monument" of three old bashed-in mailboxes, and they still hit us again about a week ago!!  Now, Tom went out and bought a new mailbox that is supposedly "baseball bat proof"!  Time will tell, I guess!

"Dead Soldiers" 

The New Tough Mailbox!

Can you see my horse, Tex, peacefully grazing in the background?