Spring in my yard: Ugly and Beautiful

It's been a weird spring around my yard and property in St. Albans, Vermont.

Even as I work to improve the landscaping, bad weather keeps getting in the way, or undoing my work.

A flash flood surges through my yard in
St. Albans, Vt. last Friday.

As you can see in the photos, even as flash flood surge through my yard, wrecking things, flowers continue to grace the area. The lilacs, like the one pictured near my front door, are especially fragrant. Ahhh...

The day after the flash flood, these lilacs
serene bloomed in front of my house. 

All the weird weather doesn't matter in the end.  I keep plugging away, and things gradually improve.