Walking through my garden today, there were plenty of smiling faces wanting their photo taken. I was happy to oblige. I hope your flowers are grinning at you today too. ~ “Then followed that beautiful season… Summer…. Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay [...]
Although many of my plants are giving a wonderful dose of color to the garden, I can’t help but enjoy a few of my pots that are bursting with color also. I have had a few casualties due to the heat this summer, but most have not only survived, but also thrived in the heat. Container gardening can [...]
The subject is “The Gardener’s Intent”. In my entry, I am trying to convey what I love most about my yard and gardens. ~ They are enjoyed. I took the picture earlier this summer and I thought it fit the bill, at least for my garden. The setting sun gives our fire pit area a spotlight, and [...]
It’s mid July, time to see what’s going on in our gardens for Garden Blogger’s Bloomsday. It’s also Fertilizer Friday! I have a lot blooming, so it makes it hard to believe my yard and gardens are showing the stress of very little rain and extremely high temperatures. My grass is brown in spots and some of [...]
Here are a few blooms from my garden this week! There is so much color everywhere it’s hard to choose which one I like the most. What do you think? ~”I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” - L. M. Montgomery Visit bloomin [...]
Last week I took a little drive to meet my blogging friends. ~It’s true, the people we talk to on blogs don’t just live in the internet. They are real. ~ Donalyn Ketchum ( dlynz.com ), Kathy Purdy(Cold Climate Gardening), Jenn Fowler (Frugal upstate), and myself do our best to meet up every month to have lunch and talk [...]
away today after yesterday’s soaking rain. My plants seem to have given a sigh of relief now that they have had a good long drenching. We could use even more rain but I keep hoping it doesn’t choose Saturday to give it to us. I am throwing a baby shower brunch and rain is [...]
These are the scenes in my back yard. I love just sitting and looking at it all, that is when I am not working, or should I say playing in it. ~’Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!”~ William Wordsworth Visit a Southern Daydreamer for Outdoor Wednesday
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Visit A Southern Daydreamer for Outdoor WEdnesday Visit Wordless Wednesday
It’s hard to believe a year has gone by since the first time I posted this blog. I have met so many kind and encouraging people that share the same passion~Gardening. The year mark has made me look back and compare my garden to one year ago and even back to when we bought this house [...]
