Crabapple blossoms
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They smell nice, too! 
We had a couple of 80 degree days; makes you forget it’s still only April. 
My lilacs are still tiny little purple buds. Had to cover them due to frost already.
It could snow on Memorial Day or anytime weeks later but I'm going for it. I couldn't plant anything until too late last year, I've only been in this place for two summers so far. I moved in during late June so I didn't have one that year and last year I was waiting for the foundation to get painted that ended up never happening so I planted really late and everything suffered for it. And there's no soil, all construction dirt. Last year I dug holes and filled them with soil and planted in that but this year, I'm doing something quite different.
So this year, screw it, probably going to get really hot early so I am getting ready for it. I have a small plot at my hiking pal's back yard, it has half a day of full sun so it won't get too hot for the onions, I might put my tomatoes there too, planted seeds this week. They spend too much time trying to survive the near constant wind up here on the hill so it's another attempt at flowers... that the deer won't eat. I'll have to protect the morning glory sets but I am not into stringing up a bunch anti deer stuff. I'll make sure there's enough calendula for them, they seem to like those but I have too many seeds and need to update my seed cache on those.
Right now I'm at war with the magpies who seem to think there is not another source on an entire mountainside for nest materials other then my one flower basket with that fiber matting stuff. I finally wrapped it in a trash bag so now they are trying to figure out what to do about it while they hop around on the metal roof. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to have that out during the summer. Sigh.
At least we are coming out of the freeze today and I am ready for it. 
