Spring has sprung

Have I mentioned lately how wonderful New Mexico weather is? It's the middle of March and temperatures have been in the 60s and 70s for two weeks. I love this place.

We're having a fun time watching our yard develop, since we saw it for the first time last June. Spring is a whole new season to us. Who knew that the almond (or olive?) tree would be awash in huge showy pink flowers? Or that the scary almost-dead tree by the house was an ornamental cherry, with delicate white blooms? The biggest suprise to me is that the awful ground cover -- in my book, all ground cover is, by nature, awful -- produces gorgeous purple flowers tucked in among the greenery. I'm still bent on pulling out each and every tendril of ground cover, but perhaps that will wait until after next Spring. Sadly, our grass is still quite dead looking and yellow. Maybe it's a late bloomer.

Pictures soon!