We talked about what colors of flowers we should by for our pots and got even more excited for the spring color all around us.
These beautiful tulips stood strong and tall all spring. They even survived a few late Colorado snow storms.
Colorado has pretty much been in a perpetual spring. Every day the forecast seems to call for rain. Rain, rain, and more rain! Thunderstorms have been rolling though nearly every day bringing heavy rain and flood conditions to our neighborhood.
Yesterday, we received nearly an inch and a half of rain in an hour! The total rainfall I heard was nearly three inches of rain just yesterday alone. Driving home, I noticed a lot of washed out roads and flooded properties.
The ditch out front of our house was overflowing with water.
Resilient as they were, our tulips were no match for yesterday's hail storm that accompanied all that rain.
They are nearly unidentifiable. I pray they are not a total loss for next year.
And all of those new flowers I finally got to plant two weeks ago...
Crushed!
I should have just burned a $100 bill.
A large majority of our road base is now sitting on our concrete driveway.
All of the mulch I had in my flower beds has also been relocated...
25 feet across the driveway where we park the old truck that is.
I scurried to the back yard to assess the damages.
Bushes stripped of their leaves.
My poor hostas are peppered to death...
I don't even know what to say anymore...
Such sad, sad peonies...
I looked back up at the house and realized we had an even bigger problem!
Our deck has chicken pox!
My painstaking paint job on the house last year...
Garbage.
All that time sanding and painting my beautiful patio chairs...
Worthless!
Oh HAIL no!!!
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