Watching the Grass Grow

[dxmachina]

Another lovely, sunny day, although a touch cooler than it's been. The combination of warm sunny days surrounding a day of torrential rain has the lawn growing like mad, dark green and lush. Which, of course, means it needed to be mowed again. I just cut it Friday. Yeesh! I knew fertilizing it was a bad idea...

Anyway, the lawn is mowed. Things are blooming, and it's looking very pretty.

Currently waiting for this week's Angel to download so I can watch it (91%).

Comments

[seankozma.livejournal.com]

Wow, jealous of the pretty green lawn there, DX. I have no lawn of my own and, while we are in the "green" phase of the year out here, this will very shortly be turning to the "brown" phase, which will last through the end of the year.

A lot of the lawn care type activities are among the few things I miss from the lands of seasons. The raking action in particular. I miss raking so much that, when dead needles, leaves and seed pods collect on our rooftop balcony, I'll grab a broom and sweep the roof.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

We differ a bit on this. I enjoy using a garden rake to level the dirt in my tomato patch, but I dislike raking the lawn with a leaf rake. Fortunately, my mower is a mulcher, so there are very few clippings, and I just leave them where they lay, and it's so damn windy here that the few leaves that fall in my yard in the autumn are quickly whisked away.

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[seankozma.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't think we differ all that much. I don't think I liked doing it when there was an actual lawn to do it to. It's a lot of friggin work (mulching mowers are just the best).

But when you move to a place with no seasons and few lawns, you'd be surprised at what sorts of automatic activites cry out to be fulfilled once more.

Lovely

[sumik.livejournal.com]

Your place really looks like spring.

Right now, it looks like spring here too - -in the sense that it's all rainy and gray. You know, that side of spring.

It's beautiful!

[maywalker.livejournal.com]

I have a teeny patch of lawn in the front of my place; living in the more deserty part of the Great Basin, you can't indulge the longing for long sweeps of grass, unless you're very wealthy indeed. Thanks for sharing it.

[msbelle.livejournal.com]

You have pretty pink bushes and they make me happy. I bought flowers for my office last week and they died. The gerbera daisy I bought for my house also died, but the azaleas, roses, orchids and seeds are doing ok.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

I figured you'd notice those. They're rhododendrons. The white trees are Bradford pears. I had no idea when I bought the house that those shrubs and trees would flower like that. It was a nice bonus.

I want to get rid of the big juniper bushes at the corners of the house and replace them with forsythia.