Our first Spring in Monroe, GA

If you’ve followed Rinse or this blog at all over the last year you know that we moved last July from Woodstock, GA to Monroe, GA (about 75 miles) from suburbia to rural’ia.  Now I’m a city girl, always have been & always will have a good piece of it in me, but there’s nothing like a country spring.


At the top are the little yellow wildflowers (alright, they’re probably weeds but wildflowers just sound so much better) that covered our front yard (also big enough that it is lovingly known as the pasture & hence not mowed quite as much as a yard would be.)
Then from left to right are:

• Blooming grapevines (that produced grapes so sour last season that we didn’t do anything but look at how cool they looked)
• Fig leaves budding & little baby figs (what we didn’t know was that this first batch of itty bitty figs would quickly die off.  We felt like horrible fig parents, but then a month or so later more baby figs than ever showed up… success!)
• Raspberry blooms

We were very blessed that all of the above were here when we moved in & that we’ve been able to keep everything alive & thriving.  I’m learning to be a country girl quickly while weeding, watering & nurturing all of these little baby fruits to maturity… all for us to eat them!  Figgy Pudding anyone???