Blooms! Isn’t Spring Great…

Little flowers are starting to pop up everywhere! It’s so exciting… They may shrivel before they turn into fruits, but oh well, I will enjoy them now!

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On a slightly related note, my rose bushes are getting attacked by some little creature that likes to nibble petals – grownup petals, bud petals, whatever – it think’s they’re super yummy. Some of the poor flowers have been nibbled down to the nub! When I trimmed the spent flowers off of my big rose bush this weekend, half of what I trimmed was nibbled buds instead of finished flowers. Terribly demoralizing for the bush – all that effort, and nothing to show! For the life of me I can’t figure out what is doing it – it is way too high off of the ground for pill bugs…