Raspberries on our minds

Woke up to a beautiful morning but lots of rain during the night left everything pretty wet--too wet to work outside.  So we went to Duluth, but on the way we planned for our raspberry patch.  I guess it's not exactly a raspberry "patch" in the older sense of the word, since we're doing it in another raised bed.  This way, you see, we don't have to dig up this clay/dirt that you could use to make pottery!  And we had lots of dirt left over from our delivery two weeks ago.  So here's the start of our raspberry patch:

...to be finished tomorrow, except I think it's going to be an awful, windy, rainy, no good, terrible day.  Just in time for the Lions Club Fishing Contest and the first day of our newly-named Saturday Market!  

It still needs the fourth side and more dirt.  And then we have to figure out what kind of raspberries would work best up here.  Can't wait!

And now here are some pictures from our garden in front of the house.  I'm really shocked at everything that made it through the winter.  Leann has weeded most of it and things are ready to pop!!

Lupines, daylilies in the back, peonies coming, and several kinds of sedum along the rocks.

Pansies and pink phlox under the [never-been-unoccupied] butterfly house

Leann's garden totem with lupines & bleeding heart in the background

More kinds of sedum

And how did we ever get white lupines??  Purple, yes; pink, maybe, but white???