We are having glorious spring weather. Blindingly bright blue sky with a wind that kept blowing salad off my plate at lunch along the waterway today. In the last 10 days the trees have gone into full leaf -- so green it almost hurts your eyes. Always amazes me that they can all do that in the space of a week, tiny buds to full leaves. High of 72 degrees. Not sure what the pool temp might be, for I am thin skinned, or maybe just spoiled, so I'm not really interested until it is nearing 85 water temps. We may be able to hit that water temp a bit earlier than usual due to all the shrubbery losses from cold temps this winter that will lead to more sun on the pool.
The Giant Bird of Paradise is now just stumps instead of 15' tall and hanging over the pool. (BTW, a great next to the pool plant if you have tropical temps most of the time. No debris in the pool. Resembles a banana tree but not the problem of spreading everywhere and turning to mush in the winter.) Lots of damaged palms, the ixora and cardboard palms (shrubs) may take another month to come back from the roots. Palms give shade from the sunny side of the pool so we can expect warmer water this time around, Yeah!
I am not yet inspired to do much yard work, still favoring the right arm with a torn rotator cuff -- stupid thing will never actually heal, just gets better and then worse. Got a ton of caladium bulbs to plant all around the pool, the soil is still cool so that can wait I think. After 5 years of toil, we are nearly done with the hard work in this yard. I am happy with the late spring this year, so often I am inside doing taxes for the family and totally miss the good weather. Got to appreciate that when it is here in S. Texas.
This weekend is the Waterway Art Fest, so I'm looking forward to a weekend of music and art and fine weather. Yea!
So, time for me to move to poolside with a nice glass of Liberty School Cabernet (new favorite wine) and admire the clean clean pool (all the work on Polaris paid off in spades, pool is pristine!) Trying to not make mental notes of yard work to be done. (weeds here, add color there, time to redo the rocks over there, maybe move that baby palm again.)