Spring in the Garden

Its been a good wet winter, and I was expecting (? hoping?) for a lot more flowers in the garden, but there are a few bright spots of colour.... and a lot of weeds!!  Time to get to work!!

Lead and Halter Training, Kiki in the Orchard and the garden

Every morning we have a little lead and halter training sesh for the 'babies'.  Pleased to say that some are making good progress :)  We are using halters designed by Lavender Park's Ruth King and they are brilliant, the snap to close fittings make it much easier to fit  and not pull their hair and they come in a range of fab colours, though I must admit to liking purple and red best - nothing new there!!

Bracken is improving slowly - looks dashing in purple :)

Eddy with Maggie Mae, she is a real star, but all credit for her training must go to Ruth, we are just adding new skills like different handlers and new situations and surfaces.

Phoebe is a blue black and looks dazzling in her red halter.

Tarquinn has a buckle up halter and he is not fond of having it fitted as it is almost impossible not to get his long coat tangled  in the buckle.  He seems to have realised that there is such a thing as too close to the camera - at last!!  LOL!!

The orchard is looking fab at present, the trees are all in flower, these are apple and pear trees.

Kiki in full flight through the orchard.  She is sporting her new choke chain instead of a collar and its hoped that this will be less wear and tear on her neck!

The garden is also full of flowers, a stunning lilac tree.

Dutch irises in the side garden.

The front garden has just popped with some very pale/white bearded iris :)

Spring Diddle Ing

Its spring fersure and definite!!

The flowering quince is doing its thing, and very pretty too.

As are the grape hyacinths

 The prunus is stunning, no room to put a pin between the blossoms:

And the tulips are starting, though was hoping for more stem... but there you go ;-D

Skinny loves to be outside and eat grass, I cant think why because given any opportunity Kiki loves to mob him!!

Life is a cycle, and to remind me of this there was a dead red brow finch on the verandah this morning - if I were as clever as Laura and Linda Kemshall this would be the beginning of a clever series of drawings, but instead its just a pic of a little dead bird :(