My garden in May.

 Anyone who knows me well is aware that I spend most of my summer on my knees praying to " the God of weeds" to be kind.  May is a time for lush fresh growth and as we were home at the end of March I had a head start on the weeds. 

First come the crocus. 

The Mexican squash seeds are coming up. 

We love the little calabacitas or squash that they grow in Mexico.  I found some seeds at Home Depot in Mazatlan so I decided to give them a try. 

I spotted this young bear out the window and then we decided that it's long legs and brownish color identified it as a young grizzly.  We rarely see one as there are mostly black bears here. 

I'm not fond of cute garden ornaments but I do like metal birds among the low growing natural vegetation.  I'd just given these birds a quick spray paint and they turned out just like new. 

Okay...these guys do have a bit of a smile but they do look real.  I repainted the one on the left with my 40 year old oil paints and then I did the one on the right.  Much better. 

The hostas, ligularia etc. by the dry stream bed. 

Some areas of the garden have all wild vegetation that I just weed. 

The dry stream bed has drainage pipes under it that terminate farther away.  Without them the garden flooded in the spring.  However it is a nightmare to keep the rocks tidy with all the deciduous trees in the garden. 

The is my round hosta garden with at least 20 different varieties worked into a colorful patchwork.  The rhodo in the back is about 40 years old and started as a very small plant.  It's the same color as one my grandmother had planted in front of her house. 

Granny's rhodo behind me and our two girls...Krista and Erika.  Probably May/June of 1970.

It was a huge plant. 

Pretty!

Me...I'm usually taking the photos and not in them. 

April was very dry but by late May there was enough rain that I didn't have to water.