This Spring our Wisteria Vine, which provides much needed shade for our back porch, actually bloomed. It was so exciting!

The Iris which Susan W. gave me also bloomed, which ws surprising after they had sat in a tub for a few weeks (the weeks we went back to MN for Gram's and Aunt Velda's Memorials).

When I was a little girl gowing up in the Hill Country of Austin, Texas these flowers grew wild. We called them Indian Blankets, and they reminded me of my Great-Great Grandmother who was full blood Cherokee.

The Clematis has grown through the fence on the south side of the house.