garden bloggers confab

I’m off to Austin for a weekend with garden bloggers. I am excited about meeting some fellow bloggers who have been friends since I started my journal, as well as many new ones.

As I leave here the hillside below the house is blooming with rusty blackhaw viburnum. It’s a small understory tree with produces small dark fruits. It’s called “rusty” because of the dark red fuzzy color of the leaf stems and buds.

I never can get over how quickly the  changes come in the spring.   One  day the  trees are mostly bare, and  the next weekend they have bright new green clothes.   We’ve been teased by predictions of rain all week,  but nothing has been delivered.

Comments (3)

  1. Jenn wrote::

    I’ll be looking forward to your confab report!

    Hope you all have the best of days.

    Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 4:24 pm #
  2. Tricia wrote::

    Me too, but your fuzzy pawed girls and I miss you.
    Hugs
    Treesha

    Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 8:24 pm #
  3. Gail wrote::

    Bill,

    Rusty is one of my favorite small trees…It was a pleasure to meet you and I am looking forward to more gardening chats!

    Gail

    Monday, April 7, 2008 at 8:45 am #