Alabama The Beautiful!!!!

I love living in Birmingham, Alabama!  I have lived here all my life.   It is a beautiful place.  We have mountains all around that are alive with color in the spring and fall.  We have great weather.  We get to experience all four seasons every year.  Just when you get tired of one season another is about to start.  I especially love the spring and fall.  Spring has been absolutely beautiful this year.  I have had the most beautiful flowers blooming.  It started with the bulbs blooming with tulips and Jonquils.  It is always a happy surprise when they pop through in my flower beds.  It signals more beauty to follow.

When the bulbs start popping up and flowers around the yard start to bloom out you just want to live outside.  The trees are yet to put out leaves and the grass is yet to green up but the beauty of the flowers draw your attention away from that fact.  After the bulbs finish I have Wisteria growing around my wooden fence.  My neighbors all love it when it blooms and this year it is the most beautiful I have ever seen it.  

I have a terrible allergy to the wisteria and this year it has been everywhere but it is so worth the stuffy nose and coughing and itchy eyes to get to see and smell this beautiful plant.  I have to really prune it because it grows so rapidly that it would over my house if I am not careful.  Not only is the wisteria beautiful but it has the most incredible fragrance too.  When that starts to bloom I know that my Iris' are not far behind.  This year I had yellow blooms that I don't remember planting.  

My how I love flowers.  I am always so amazed that God created such beautiful things for my pleasure.  I am grateful beyond words.   Thanks for taking a tour around my yard.  

Have a blessed day!  

Julie (aka Magnolia)