Garden Beauty

We left the camping spring blooms behind, and came home to some very pretty colors in the flower bed.

Many of the hyacinths are up now.

These white (with yellow centers) daffodils are new to the garden.  I planted them last fall.

I'm taking photographs this spring, so I can make a plan for fall bulb planting, and know where everything is(after their season ends).  

With the chill in the air, and everything wet outside, I mixed up a crock pot full of stew.  It's similar to the vegetarian sweet potato/black bean chili we make.  This one contains pork shoulder, tomatoes, onion, spices, sweet potatoes, black beans, peanut butter and lots of swiss chard.  Now if that isn't a protein packed nail growing meal, I don't know what is.    Next time, I'll have to put the sweet potatoes in later.  They pretty much mashed up as I stirred in the end.  It was delicious anyway.

Note:  I cut the fat off the pork shoulder first, cut the meat into 3-4 inch pieces, and after about 7 hours of cooking, took it out and diced it it.  It was so tender it just fell apart.