while i was dealing with an evil stomach bug

that involved an emergency doctor drugging me out and rewarding me with a nice PLASTER afterwards

my garden exploded

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a while before i retreated to bath and bed

i had a little/big help cleaning everything up

(best dressed gardener ever, right?)

and these pictures of those tiny plants taken right after look so ridiculous after a few weeks

slowly i´ve come to like the wilderness of my mixture of old growth and new plantation

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one (sick) evening of a especially warm day

i sat up in bed crying out "that smell, that smell!"

since the air was filled with an almost sickening sweet scent of my just startet narcissus boarder,

tons of violets, hyacinths (look at my favorites, so cute) and a pear tree just bursting into bloom

.

i spent so much time, money and energy at planing and planting this garden

(which will never some to an end)

but it already feels so rewarding and there´s still so much to come out during the year

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also it´s really difficult to take "nice" pictures of it all

since i´m not living in the prettiest neighborhood

so you can only see a fraction of my wild tulip collection

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since i´ve now included roasted bananas and ice cream to my diet of zwieback, apples and noodle soup

my strength will return soon

 and i´m going to dig around there again in no time

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i LOVE JESSICA STANLEY´s lists

so i made some Mexican BISCOCHITOS

with orange zest, anise and Cointreau

(W can´t wait to get that bottle - minus two table spoons - for Easter)

they did turn out surprisingly good

considering my baking disasters lately

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then i couldn´t come up with a fun picture idea when they came out of the oven

so i gave up on it after showing them some apricot in bloom

now they are ready to be eaten

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please tell me what lens to get for my Canon

those contortions just drive me mad

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happy Easter everybody!