My wonderful husband brought me a dozen roses yesterday. What a treat and he didn’t even know I needed an R word for today’s post. He knows that I am in desperate need of a flower fix now that Jack Frost has stolen them all away from my garden. ~”A single rose can be my [...]
Looking back and comparing my yard to when we bought this house 3 years ago. I can’t believe the differences. This was the fencing of the yard that first summer. We also had one of the huge black walnut trees cut down that was old and unhealthy. This was the far back corner of our yard [...]
My garden is trying hard to keep the color alive after finally getting such badly needed rain. Flowers are blooming from plants I thought long gone so I am hesitant to clean up my garden just yet. I like to get every bit of life out of those plants before succumbing to the reality [...]
We are about at the end of the bloomin season here in upstate NY although I still have plenty of flowers still holding on. I am starting to clean up my gardens for winter, moving a few things around in anticipation of next spring. My morning glories and climatis are still looking beautiful as are the [...]
The sun has been shining the past couple of days and the flowers seem to be making their last hurrah, almost as if they know the end of summer is closing in. The cooler temperatures make them happy but they sure could use more rain. The bees seem very busy trying to get their [...]
Here are some of the beauties still thriving in my garden. Even though I have had trouble keeping them quenched, they are still trying their best to shine. I guess you can’t keep a good garden down. Thank Goodness! I Hope your garden is still bringing you pleasure despite the heat and drought of the [...]
These two were fluttering around my butterfly bush this morning. They didn’t seem to mind me clicking away. All of these shots are straight out of the camera with no editing except for cropping. I was pretty happy to get some great shots even without a little help from photo shop. ~”Butterflies are self [...]
~“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.”~Hal Boyle
Although it is spitting a bit of rain here and there today and the temperatures are only in the high fifties, the temperatures over the past few weeks have been sweltering and we have had very little rain. No amount of watering has seemed to quench my garden’s thirst. Not even the very recent cooler temperatures are [...]
What I realized doing this post is that all my stained glass pieces except one, has flowers on it. Go figure… me,… flowers. This first one hangs in my kitchen. I love it’s simplicity and it’s colors. The light that streams through in the morning is cheerful even on gloomy days. I bought this arts and crafts styled [...]
