flowers in bloom

Here in CA we have had a higher than normal amount of rain in the past four months (blessed with).  Finally we have green grass in the winter, flowers blooming, and therefore also a steady course of weeds.  Now, I have been a bit indisposed from the necessary bending down or over in order to work the flower beds for a very long time.  So it's been Shane who has maintained some order to my beloved flowering beds until yesterday. 

I came back from my early morning walk and got the basic tools of hoe, the hand clipper and the small bucket from the garage.  A couple of sage plants needed to be trimmed back off the driveway,  birds of paradise cleaned up and thinned out.  After a couple of times of "up and down" the quads and the back were already letting me know that I was going to be in for a achy afternoon know matter how short of time I was out there. But wonderful Gut for the first time..

The amount of time that I worked the beds was about an hour, hoeing up the soil, pulling out some weeds, and getting the large stocks cut off the birds out to the green trash can before it would be emptied.. Turns out the green trash can was not picked up at all on our block and so it's on the sidewalk, hopefully today they will remember us.

here are a few of the beds