Forsythia Picture

It's beautiful, but it's huge.  Within the next couple of days I'll start pruning out the branches that didn't bloom.  Later, once the blooms start to go, I'll cut it down a bit. 

The tree behind the section towards the front of the house was placed there on purpose.  Now I need to figure out what kind of tree it is before I take the chainsaw to it.

Spring Discoveries

There are violets along the foundation on the creek side of the house.

There is 14 foot tall forsythia along the creek embankment from the front corner of the house.  This is a proper use of forsythia but it's very overgrown.  I'm going to cut a lot of it back this week and try to train it more down towards the creek.  The Duckie and I may be making a spring forsythia wreath for the porch.

I think there are random tulips bordering the patio.