This amaryllis is bursting into bloom!
These cilantro flowers are lacy.
Here is a partially focused bee.
These flowers are Impatiens, which survived from last spring, even though they are annuals. 
This flower is a perennial columbine. It has little columbines coming up around it, so maybe it will spread.
We finally took our clearly artificial tree down today! Joe is recovered enough to lift all those parts down. It was a bit over three months ago that Joe had his surgery, so the biggest part of his recovery is done. I have heard that it takes a year to get completely back to normal.
Taking down the tree was truly a review of Christmases past, because so many ornaments are from so many people and places! We did learn that LED lights pay back for their purchase quickly in energy savings.
Our nice bare corner. Tomorrow we trek everything up to the attic. Yeah! We’ll be done in time for Easter.
I found this 1/2 inch wide snail on some lettuce. I vaguely remembered having heard of some rather devastating parasites that can be present in snails in some alternate forms.
Snails are a common gardening problem, and so I decided to cook my lettuce, to be 100% sure that we do not catch any theoretical parasitic beasties. I have not seen that snails eat parsley, cilantro, oregano, or marjoram. In fact these seem to discourage creepy crawlies on nearby plants. I could find that snails are very common in Texas gardens, and I’ve seen them myself. I could find no place where snails in Texas gardens are stated to be dangerous online. Until I find otherwise, I am going to be careful and cook or at least peal raw vegetables from our garden.
The other reason that I cooked the lettuce, is that most of it is old and bitter, even if not bolted.
Here are the keywords I googled to find the link to the recipe which I used for our Stir Fry Lettuce: Chinese Stir-Fry Lettuce With Garlic Recipe . Rhonda Parkinson, recipe author, tells us that the Chinese always cook their vegetables. When I think about it, this seems to be my experience. This five star recipe worked even with our bitter old lettuce!