Good morning, and here's to a picture perfect Christmas. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
On Tuesday, Denver's weather turned from the 59° high of the previous day, to cold and... SNOW.
We had light snow falling on and off through Christmas Eve — only about six inches, just enough to provide a beautiful and pristine crystal blanket.
It's been cold, with lows hovering around 0°, and the highs for the last two days in the low to mid 20s. But the roads were clear yesterday for those who travel on Christmas.
As I said — a picture perfect Christmas.
This picture, however, is not perfect — sorry it's out of focus, but I was shooting out the back door while wearing my robe and slippers Thursday morning. Too damned cold to go outside! But I did love the snow on the garden bells.
On Thursday I took Da Boys to see Avatar — IMAX was sold out, so we went to a plain old regular 3D showing. The description Dances with Smurfs is an accurate alternate title: like Dances with Wolves, Avatar is a beautifully made spectacular, but the plot is extremely formulaic.
Christmas Eve I trudged out to the rosemary bush and dug down to clip a couple of sprigs for our Christmas Eve dinner of rack of lamb. After dinner, Da Boys commenced ripping into the pile of packages under the tree.
On Christmas morning Da Boys got the final installment of goodies — their stockings and a PS3. The day passed quietly — surprisingly so, with absolutely no squabbling between Da Boys about who got to use the PS3, and no frustrated melt-downs from Younger Son. I'm sure that won't last as today the Mister will take Da Boys to Game Stop to spend their Christmas cash on more games for the new system.
Christmas dinner — a rib eye roast — was quite late, as the roast hadn't quite thawed through the middle and it took forever to cook. But cook it eventually did, and it was a sumptuous feast — the excess roasting time gave it a gorgeously rich and crispy crust.
Picture perfect doesn't mean perfect — it means good enough.
That's what's happening here. What's going in your gardens?