mountain laurels

[threeplusfire]

Today was much more productive than my last Sunday. I washed my car, and helped my mother plant a half dozen Texas mountain laurels along the side fence. I think it will be beautiful when they grow up. Next year they will bloom their giant purple bunches of flowers and the air will smell like sugar, bubble gum, honey and spring. They are really lovely evergreen plants. Digging little holes wasn't too bad until we hit a thick cedar root. We finally had to get some clippers and chop it up. One of my sister's friends has a little brother, and my mother is paying him to scrape up the last of the stuff on the floors so she can refinish the bedrooms.