I captured the following photos of two birds fighting over something (a mate perhaps?). Notice one perching on top of one below, struggling with its wings wildly flapping...

Winning bird pecking on the losing one...

And another peck...

And then he saw (?) me...(I was standing behind my kitchen door leading to the flower garden. I used the zoom feature of my cam to capture the photos. I did not want to distract the birds.)
They immediately flew away...

My Vegetable Garden

Corns

Potatoes

Spinach

Onions

Peppers

Tomatoes...
I also have beet greens and carrots which are still small for picture-taking at this point. These photos show lots of weeds! (I weeded the next day, okay?)

Strawberries...

waiting to be harvested...from Mom's garden.

Pansy common name for any of a family of plants having large showy flowers composed of five leafy sepals, five to ten petals, numerous stamens, and two to five carpels, each with numerous round, black, shiny seeds. The leaves are compound, the leaflets variously and irregularly divided. The fibers of the root are often thickened and tuberous. Peony species are large herbaceous perennials or, rarely, half-shrubby plants, native to Europe, Asia, and the northwestern United States. Because of the beauty of their flowers, some species are cultivated, particularly the common peony, a native of the mountain woods of southern Europe. This species has carmine or blood-red flowers. A variety with double flowers is common. The white peony is another favorite garden species. The mountain peony in favorable circumstances may attain large size and a height of about 4 m (about 12 ft). It is propagated by cuttings and also by grafting.

Scientific classification: Peonies make up the family Paeoniaceae. The common peony is classified as Paeonia officinalis, the white peony as Paeonia lactiflora, and the mountain peony as Paeonia moutan.

Microsoft� Encarta� Reference Library 2003. � 1993-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Peone

...is a common name for any of a family of plants having large showy flowers composed of five leafy sepals, five to ten petals, numerous stamens, and two to five carpels, each with numerous round, black, shiny seeds. The leaves are compound, the leaflets variously and irregularly divided. The fibers of the root are often thickened and tuberous. Peony species are large herbaceous perennials or, rarely, half-shrubby plants, native to Europe, Asia, and the northwestern United States. Because of the beauty of their flowers, some species are cultivated, particularly the common peony, a native of the mountain woods of southern Europe. This species has carmine or blood-red flowers. A variety with double flowers is common. The white peony is another favorite garden species. The mountain peony in favorable circumstances may attain large size and a height of about 4 m (about 12 ft). It is propagated by cuttings and also by grafting.

Scientific classification: Peonies make up the family Paeoniaceae. The common peony is classified as Paeonia officinalis, the white peony as Paeonia lactiflora, and the mountain peony as Paeonia moutan.

Microsoft� Encarta� Reference Library 2003. � 1993-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Bees found haven in my garden and find delight in the nectar of these flowers...It is so heartwarming for me to see life at its full, after having been through winter for 5 months, a cold and seemingly lifeless stillness...

Salvia hotlike (?) red (Salvia coccinea), an annual, with brilliant striking scarlet trumpet-shaped flowers. 

Snapdragon ((Antirrhinum magus), whot taken from above, deceivingly looking like a multilayer of petals here,

But seen from the side is actually a cluster of flowers...

Each individual floret has a unique shape. 

Columbines (A. caerulea) up close

and a light yellow variety only starting to bloom...

and the purple variety with gently curved spikes (A> vulgaris) up-close. 

One side of my garden...

The other side of my garden.
It is so good to see the fruits of my labor...The sound of water in the fountain gently falling, plus the sight of my multi-colored plants, plus the chirping of birds all around me is the perfect therapy for someone who is under stress (but I am not) or the perfect and very cheap yet deeply satisfying recreational activity. Nothing beats the feeling of oneness with God's creation. 

Strawberries from Mom....big and sweet-tart and juicy...

Yummy! 

Columbine (Aquilegia caerulea) taken at dusk...Notice the gentle curving of its spikes.

Buttercups are wild flowers with petals that are shiny they seem to have been laminated, and with small and sparse foliage on tall slender stems. They abound everywhere, even on the field, but I let them thrive on my flower garden because of their beauty. I pick them up almost everyday to put in my flower vase.

Lupine at the early days of blooming...the clusters of florets that are crabclaw-shaped start blooming from the bottom upward. The foliage show stellate formation. I think they re-sow themselves. I have seen several isolated plants in other parts of my garden.

California bluebells is my guess for these lovely dainty flowers in groups of two at every stem, with stellate-shaped foliage as well. I saw an isolated plant also in the flowering stage interspersed with daisies, so I figure it is also self-sowing. Next time I won't pull any weedlooking plants off my garden until 2nd week of June.

Another variety of Columbine (Aquilegia caerulea) with striking contrast of red orange-yellow petals, this time the spikes are not curved but straight, the blooms slightly larger and more open than in the previously-shown purple variety (A. vulgaris). Foliage is clearly shown here, but I can't think of a way to describe it (seeing is better anyway.)

Daisies are everywhere...very wild, with scarce small pointed leaves in a sturdy single stalk. They grow in clusters. The petals are so delicate.

Petunias (P. drummondii) from my generous mother-in-law...clusters of small flowers either in solid or combination of colors, with stiff stems and simple foliage...

I don't know what this is...The plant is just about 6-8 inches high (it is an annual) with uninteresting foliage, but the flower has several layers of petals in red-white combination...so striking...

Another unkown flower clusters of delicate pink, the individual florets about 1-2 inches big/long, unscented, grows in a bush (perennial). 

My Flower Garden

Some of the flowers around the house...
This is Lupine...

wild daisies (plenty in the field as well as in my flower garden).

From Mom...(I don't know the name)...

Another (bush) flower I don't know the name of...

Another unknown to me...

and another unknown...

and another quite extraordinary...

this one reminds me of cluster-type gumamela...

A columbine variety just about to bloom...