Early December: My only bloomers

It's early December, and I currently only have two plants in bloom. One is our massive rosemary bush, and the other is a rogue lantana that popped up in my neighbor's land, but spills over into my garden.

We're due for a freeze on Wednesday, and I wonder if the blooms will go away after the freeze.

Lantana on the left, leaning over from the neighbor's land into my garden (no complaints).

Close up on the pink and yellow blooms. I think it's a very pretty color combo.

The monster rosemary (I will prune in spring, but I'm afraid to prune it now because the winter freezes might damage it)

Nice flowers if you look at the rosemary up close.

Christmas Lights and a photo of the entire front yard garden

Today was a big first for me. I hung up Christmas lights. It wasn't as fun as I imagined as a kid.

Here's a photo of the lights and our pink lawn poodle that Christine's Aunt Peggy gave us.

I think this photo is the first one I've posted that shows the garden in its entirety. Winter is kind of a drag. The plants are putting in good roots, but they aren't showing me much to enjoy. I cannot wait for spring, when the plants will all burst to life and color.

Daytime, after I put up the lights (with a view of the garden)

Illuminated

Neighborhood Fauna: Blue

This post is the first in an occasional series I shall call "Neighborhood Fauna." Today we feature Blue. Blue is a big puppy from down the street. He likes to jump in my face when I bend over to weed. He is a sweetheart but he's damn annoying.

This is Blue. He is contemplating which of my plants to destroy and how.

When Blue walks around in my garden, he likes to destroy my plants by trampling on them. 

You can see in this photo that Blue also likes to destroy my plants by ripping pieces off them.

Blue's favorite garden activity to do is to take giant dumps.

I hope you enjoyed this edition of "Neighborhood Fauna." Catch you next time.