Getting a Little Dirt Under My Fingernails

Remember our desolate backyard?

Well! We've been busy moving rocks and boulders, digging holes, planting stuff.

This is the detritus of planting more than 50 plants over the past two weekends.

And I am sore. My back hurts, my knees hurt, my hands and feet hurt.

My feet are just sad and dirty.
Think it's time for a pedicure.
(And I have renewed sympathy for elephants.)

 But, on the bright side, after all that work, here is what we are rewarded with.

And, as another sweet reward:

All in all, a good way to spend a late-spring day.