a winter garden

last September grandson Iain and I visited several local Japanese gardens

then school happened and soccer and more interesting things

but the school project is due

 yesterday was a pro-D day so time to get on with it

of course it is January and it has been a winter of extreme weather

the compost box in the background isn’t exactly perfect but….

Dad helped with the surrounding the day before

hopefully the weeds won’t come up through the landscape fabric

weighing down the fabric meant we could walk on it Iain did the heavy shovellingthen it was off to the beach for a good rock

the weather was perfect, warm-ish with no wind and blue sky

the tide was in, all the rocks were either too big or part of the breakwater

we settled on three that we could carry – two in the bag at Iain’s feet

it took both of us to carry it up the steep bank to the car

and then go back for the third

the Canada geese were not impressed with us or their frozen pond

we went home to complete the job

plants I potted up in September will have to wait to go in the ground

this morning we woke up to a dusting of snow and a bitter wind

the weather Gods were kind to us