That is one neat picture...looks kind of surreal with the indoor cat, the outdoor cat and what looks like it could be a reflection of a cow but is an actual cow looking in your window. That's a pretty calf! I think cows do make a beautiful sight. I have liked cows since I was small. I think it would be fun to plant stuff in the woods. Good you got rain...we had about 5 or 6 months of drought so I am grateful for recent rains .

This is a great post, Melissa. I hope you all feel better soon.

Erasmus, cows are pretty. Today was finally sunny, and warm enough to work comfortably outside, and so I spent most of the day in the garden. In late afternoon the calf herd was grazing in the meadow above where I was busy, and their black and white forms on the emerald grass, with the blue sky above, were beautiful.

We've had about three years of below-average rainfall, and it is mighty tiresome. Right at the moment, after the recent period of rain, I'm not worrying about it for a change. Good for you that you too got the rain you needed.

The local native flora includes some very pretty woodland floor flowers, which I plant in the woods when I get around to it. I was blown away once when I found a woodland carpeted with Erythronium dens-canis, but it's hard to find it in commerce and it's hard to dig and transplant. So, patience. No doubt I'll be planting these little flowers for the rest of my life.

Sheila, thanks. Last night DH didn't have leg cramps, and DD was finally warm enough with a second feather comforter on the bed, and I slept for about twelve hours. We woke up refreshed, and the day was--finally!!--fair and I could work outdoors. I had a great day.

Your baby goats are adorable!

Jackie

Now that's what I call a nosy neighbor and shamelessly staring into your window. So cute!

Great post, and GREAT picture,Melissa! I'm glad you're feeling a bit better, too.Do you know this on-line source for bulbs? I've never ordered from them, so it's not like I'm giving a recommendation,it's just that if a wild flower is hard to transplant, it might work better to try buying the bulbs.

https://www.florianabulbose.com/negozio/catalogo-4-fioriture-invernali-e-primaverili/erythronium/erythronium-dens-canis-mix/

As usual, Melissa's post makes me yearn for the time when I'll be "done" with messing around so much with roses. I'm in the process of trying to sort of get them in order, i.e.,moving ones that are in places where I want trees, eliminating ones that are too weak or that I just don't like, and, of course, planting out potted ones. I did manage to do most of my planting before Christmas; the only things I put out after have been : a potted yucca gloriosa that I wanted off of the terrace-those pointy leaves are too sharp and dangerous for a terrace, IMO. I also moved John Cabot,since it was too close to where I'd planted my moved Paulownia, and also a cytisus scoparius Moyclare pink,which was too close to the spot where I'd put my moved wisteria "Amythest". Now I want to start putting down the granular fertilizer (spring-like weather is in the prediction; in any case, I do have some roses that are actually blooming now,so I don't think it's too early). The fallen tree still has to be dealt with; I have managed to saw myself a path through it that is wide enough for me to pass with the wheelbarrow,but most of the work has yet to be done.

Sultry, those baby goats are absolutely adorable!!!!!!!!

I agree with all who think the baby goats are adorable!! Sultry, how pleasant for you to live with all these animals around. Our neighbors are dairy farmers, but they always have some other creatures around: chickens or geese, dogs and farm cats, a donkey or two. It does brighten things up.

Bart, I've bought from Floriana for years, and have always had good experiences with them. I was thinking they didn't carry the erythronium, but see that I was mistaken. Mind, rather expensive, and it is a bulb that requires quantities to show its best.

Some of the bulbs I dig up because they're just there; others are actually too plain to be easily found in commerce. I don't think I've ever found ordinary Solomon's seal offered. I finally found colonies in a wood locally, and we dug up a couple of pieces of it.

Bart, to each her own way of developing her garden. I imagine I'll be working on mine as long as I'm capable of it, but I suppose it just gets too frustrating for me when NOTHING is finished. So I work on bits here and there until there is the occasional corner that looks fairly complete. It may help that I have a number of passions other than roses, lesser perhaps, but passions all the same.

Humble, there's a reason I called it the fishbowl. Passing animals do pause and look in: we've had a fox and by a badger peer in at us, as well as the more usual cats and calves. Once I saw a white pig run past (our neighbors don't keep pigs: who knows where it came from).

Your window looks like a painting with the cow & kitties. It would be neat if someone artistic would paint it.

Thank you guys, for the baby goat compliments. They are 3 little bucklings. I normally dont have bottle babies but for the first time ever, we had a doe completely reject one of her babies. We really tried to get her to bond with him but after she threw him into the air, that was it.

The other 2 smaller ones were from a set of quadruplets. The mama had 2 boys and 2 girls. The girls were bigger and stronger and the boys were not getting to nurse enough and growing weaker and weaker. One was very tiny from the start. They are doing much better now on bottles.

We only get raccoons and cats looking in.. Skunks are out at night but not looking in my windows If I had cows stopping by, I'd be out there talking to them.