My Herb Garden / Mother's Day

 So last week, I went home for Mother's Day and decided it was a perfect time to look over my herbs. They seem to be getting along pretty well (I am sure that they love all the rain that we had). This is a picture of the chives that took over my herb garden last year. I regrettably had to pull some up... I guess my mom can use them in some tasty dishes.

Yep, they are still pretty wild looking.

 This next picture is of my cilantro (Yum!) Last year I didn't get a lot of cilantro. Hopefully that changes this year.

 This is the oregano! It has been looking bad in the past couple of years, but it looks good now!

.... And the peppermint. I got this from my aunt who got it from someone else. It keeps trying to  creep into the rest of the garden (thus the brick "wall").

Now, I am not sure about this, but I am hoping that it is sage. I love sage. Mainly because it tastes like rosemary and I can never get rosemary to stay alive for more than a season.

Look at all that wood, even after I told everyone in my compost post that wood should never be used in compost. So I had done this before I knew better and am still trying to take all of the wood out :(

Now, to get away from the herbs for a minute, I love lilacs and I just couldn't NOT take a picture of ours...

 Lovely, isn't is?

Here is our awesome apricot tree (I may tell you the story behind it later) with it's bounty of fruit

Well, not bountiful yet, but you just wait.

And to prove I didn't just laze about over Mother's Day weekend, here is the cake that I made for my mom.

And YES, I know that it has many faults, thanks for noticing. What's that? You didn't notice? ... uhm, there arrrrre no faults, I was just ... joking. That's it. I was joking


Update: some of the pictures seem to have been lost. I will try my best to re-upload them; if I can find them that is.