Just Some Pictures

I'm an addict...according to Cheryl, I'm addicted to day lilies. There are worse things, right? Cheryl and Caroline and I went back to the day lily close out sale at a local farm. I left with another 12 varieties. Caroline and I planted them later in the day and gave them a good watering.

My faithful mud puppy.

The "wishing I was in the front yard running through the gardens" crew. Tater shows up fine, the white spot next to his head on the left is Lili's chest.

Don't remember the name of this one, but it's one of my favorites.

This is "Pandora's Box"

The new plants in the ground. Just planted them all where I wanted them and will take my time getting rid of the grass in between or maybe I'll leave it as a path of sorts through the garden

Oasis with Casablanca lilies, harvest moon cone flower, and purple cone flower.

Messing with Some Pictures

Cheryl told me a bit about "enhancing" pictures using the sharpness, saturation, contrast, etc. stuff on my picture download program. I have posted the before and afters; let me know what you think.

Gathering Blooms

Bloomin' Day Lilies

A Visit

Cheryl and I realized that it has been quite some time since I'd been over to the west side. I've been plugging along dealing with the three year oldness of Caroline, most times not as well as I would like, but getting through it without a nervous breakdown so far. Cheryl has been dealing with Bully issues. Although through all our trials and tribulations, we have still managed to get into our gardens and commiserate with Ma Nature, as I'm sure she has many of the same issues, just not the same critters. Anyway, the visit inspired me to take a stroll and appreciate what I have growing over on my side.

These are the same plant, one a close up of the flowers. It is a cobweb hens and chicks and it surprised me with these little flowers.

Another type of hens and chicks, and the flowers look to be yellow, but we'll see.

Oasis garden.

Day lily area, I recently add the stone wall and it really makes a nice difference.

The upside downiest puppy in the world. This is the way he sleeps most of the time.

Just Lots of Pictures

Showing off that Uncle Tim's Christmas present fits.

Caroline "helping" to stack 4 of the 10 cords of firewood for this year.

Red Hot Poker Plant in bloom.

Blurry picture...this pup stands about as still as the 3 year old.

Caroline's oldest friend, Z man; they are "pulling" funny faces.

Mom does this pose look familiar?

Mountain Laurel - one of my favorite up here, I like the angularness of the blooms in contrast to the rounded edges of the dark green leaves.
Fox glove forest.
Father's Day with Z man, Z's dad, Caroline, and her dad fishing.

I Got The Hint

Lots of stuff happening in the gardens currently, to be posted later. At the point of time these pictures were taken, not much was happening yet.

Daddy made his "little princess" a crown. Tater and Lili were there for the acceptance ceremony.
Amid the grand fanfare, the newly crowned princess couldn't help but throw her arms up with a big "Hooray"
Come to find out my poppy isn't very unusual at all; just to me, not having grown them before. But I thought this was a decent picture with the dew still lingering.
I love the way Mother Nature puts so many different types of beauty into her creations.
I was in the kitchen doing dishes and talking to my mom, when I heard great squeals of laughter coming from the yard below the deck. I knew Caroline was playing in her little sandbox and had to go see what her latest creation was that had tickled her so. This is what I saw when I looked over the railing. Tater's curiosity couldn't be contained any longer and he jumped into the sandcastle making process to "help"