I posted some pictures of our flower gardens a few days ago - we've had some rain since then, and the Peonies have started to bloom. Here's a shot of the garden on the left side:

And here are the ones on the right:

Sadly, the picture phone isn't quite good enough to pick up the red peonies in the riot of flowers in the top picture. I dug those gardens out the hard way a few years back - wheelbarrow, shovel, bags of topsoil. Fortunately, the house two doors down hadn't been built yet, so I was able to dump all the dirt in that empty lot - if I were to put in another garden now, I'd have to haul all the dirt into the woods across the street.