弘前さくらまつりHirosaki Sakura Matsuri

弘前さくらまつり 

Hirosaki Sakura Matsuri 

Hirosaki Cherry Tree Festival

I loved this festival! There was great food, great atmoshphere, great flowers! I did go into it knowing it was going to be PACKED, so I was expecting that. I think if you didnt know that you might freak out... there were people everywhere. I dont think I will be saying much, the photos say it all... enjoy!

Spring on the Nature Trail

These are some photos from the Nature Trail here. It is early spring and stuff is alive and I love it! This is at the beginning of the trial where the ground is alot higher and dryer... later the pictures will be more from a swampy boggy area. This misty rainy look is really what spring is like here, we have a few days of sun scattered in but it is always misty rainy and foggy. We had an essay contest at the youth center and one of the kids wrote that what she loved most about spring was the rain, because it means summer is right around the corner.

Remember to look at any photo full size just click on that photo

There were tons of fern emerging on the trail, it reminded me of New Zealand except of course they are not the size of my face.

Thick Stemmed Wood Fern

This is down in the swampy boggy area

Nodding Anemone

Red Trillium

Asian Skunk Cabbage

Asian Skunk Cabbage

Japanese Mountain Fern

Eastern Skunk Cabbage

Vidal's Lady Fern

False Hellebore

Scarlet Leaved Vibernum

Pine

Spring in the Garden

I am frustrated... a guess its a good frustrated... I have more adventures and sweet photos then I have time to blog about. Its better then having nothing to blog about... but still sad. There are so many cool things that happened this winter that I still have not posted about... and now its spring... and I cant bare to talk about winter anymore because I am SO EXCITED about spring that you guys will just never know what else happened this winter... oh well...

and on that note... ITS SPRING... here is look at whats going on in my garden! 

(everything is coming back from last year besides the pansies)

Pansies in a pot

Sedem

Lime Green and Black Clover!

More pansies

Hyacinth breaking through 

MOSC Planters

So I planned my last event for MOSC! YAY I am glad to be done! but for the centerpieces in honor of spring we did some cute little spring planters! I love spending other peoples money especially on something I have so much fun doing... so I ended up going to two different green houses and got these plants individually and put them all together into these planter. I think they turned out super cute and it was fun having so many flowers around my house!

Lisa's Birthday

Well.... it was my birthday and Derick gave me this huge bouquet of cut flowers, they were gorgeous!Kona gave me a package of rawhides for my birthday... hmmm... it wasnt on my list and she ended up taking them from me a few days later... well what can you expect from a Kona?
Derick gave me this AWESOME pack for backpacking!

Derick made dinner for me... he made Whole Wheat breaded chicken with alfredo sauce on top, and asparagus, and champagneHere are all my flowers arranged in bottles that I found on the beach
Alstromaria
Sweat Pea... they smelled AMAZING
Rose
Gerbera Daisy
Oncidium Orchid
He also got me this cymbidium orchid plant... it was a great birthday!