Visible here are about 15% of her floral extravaganza, which in addition to this exists in four other large flowerbeds. This is besides the strawberry bed you see at back right, the blackberry patch, the rhubarb and raspberry patch, and the garden, which includes vegetables and fruit trees. After seven months of snow, she has rather a green thumb.

We’ve had a lot of rain this week and everything you see here, excepting trees, is about twice as big now; and this bed is full of blossoming forget-me-nots. The tulips are up, but only one has ventured to bloom; but the primrose is flourishing. For poor mountain soil the plants are doing really quite well, expecially considering the cold climate. The manure really helps. Maybe if we add enough fertilizer, the plants will thrive without such coddling.

But I think she enjoys it.