I know I just posted, but the train that is pulling spring through town...is chugging along a little too fast.
So I'm running after it as fast as I can...

Some of you know...the rest of you won't be surprised at all...that I received a bunny rabbit for Christmas...and a wonderful little chalet so it would stay warm through winter.
We weren't sure at all if the bunny was a girl or a boy. If it was a boy, I was going to name it Ashley Longworth...from the Walton's...you know, sister's beau/love of her life/the one that got away....
and then we'd call him "Ash" because of the fur color...



If it was a girl...we just weren't sure.  I hadn't won anyone's vote for Ashley Longworth, and Xavier wanted to call it Sniffy..because that's what it's nose does...(yes, that was his reasoning...logical, yes) so when Xavier wasn't around, it was called bunnybun.
We would leave the house and say, "Bye, bunnybun," and it would stand and hop around.



We'd return and say, "Hi, Bunnybun...you're a good bunny." More hopping and acknowledging...sweet bunnybun.


I just couldn't stand it any longer...this rabbit, getting quite big at this point, is in dire need of a name...or maybe it's just that I want it to have a name. Everything needs a name...just ask Anne of Green Gables...

While we were gardening the other day...the wild violets were everywhere. Along the hydrangea bed..


...squinting in the sunshine...


That was it!  ...Violet...the rabbit would be a she...and her name will be Violet (I haven't checked her hindquarters to be positive...and with those sharp little fingernails, I'll pass...so, we're calling her a she:)
Well, I was quite satisfied with a name that seems to suit her...the rabbit...

So of course, the next order of business was to do some landscaping around her home....


Husband, Tim, cleaned out her house (which meant we had to lift and carry to driveway), raked the area where it sat,  and put fresh timothy hay downstairs and recycled pet bedding upstairs in her loft. We put the house back in its spot 'neath the big hack berry tree with the ivy creeping up, I set the old chair with a pot of angel ivy, and the rabbit planter with the pansies next to it.

It looked much better, but it just needed one more thing.... violets!

Today, as I went outside to get some Vitamin D, via sunshine, for my long bones...I took a little basket and trowel to the hydrangea bed where I had spotted the huge quantity of purple blooms...


Aren't these just the sweetest little flowers?

Here they are in the little wheelbarrow from little mr. mcgregor's garden...


Yes, by now my endorphins have kicked into high gear, and I am experiencing the sheer joy that is a result of play and sunshine and digging in dirt...best therapy in the wide wide world.

Off we go to Miss Violet's with a pretty basket...


She sniffs...which is what she does, remember?



And with her approval, I commence planting...


I made sure they wouldn't be in the way, when it comes time for another house cleaning...
and I think they look perfectly perfect in every way...



And so does Miss Violet "Sniffy" Bunnybun.....there, now, every one's happy.

I went back around with the garden hose to give everything a good soaking, in case that rain doesn't make it down our way, and made sure I used my pink watering can to sprinkle the new little flowers as gently as I did the hollyhocks, just transferred to the "nursery" in front of the bed that will be their future home, once they're a little sturdier....


I caught a glimpse of our first rose bud, in the little knock out rose "tree" by the front fence post...