Tis the season...snowball bushes..

one of my first enchanting views of the house...

well...

sort of see the house

What we actually see in this picture

is a sweet farm house peeking behind some 

HUGE Snowball bushes!!

as if it were playing hide and go seek with us

after much discussion.

sometimes HEATED discussions... 

or rather LIVELY discussions

about how much I LOVED the bushes

and how much Machine Man Hated them..

what finally came out was that we were in actually

in complete agreement

we BOTH hated to see these bushes we LOVED 

(ok perhaps love is to strong a word for Machine Man's feelings)

directly in front of the house...

then more discussion on WHERE they should go... 

it was decided...

per my suggestion that they OUGHT to go all the way down the lane!

and so ..

SPRING IS HERE!

and 

'Tis the season...

and all that

digging trenches has BEGUN!

as Machine Man encouraged C.S.

"Son.. years from now when I am old and grey ...

you can tell your children, how you planted these bushes when you were a lad...

it will be grand"

and it WILL

it really really will