Passions I can't deny
Posted in Photography, gardening, irises on May 16th, 2010
Yes, I’m still counting them although we’re getting to the end. I have several that are not blooming this year or might bloom in the fall instead including two orange ones. I also have a black one that is budding but I’ve been waiting for several days and it still hasn’t opened up. So here [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, gardening on May 12th, 2010
Well, he’s back! And he’s no friend of mine. I’m talking about this little plant that causes me so much pain!
Last year he got me three times, the first being in March when I couldn’t see him. I’ve been real lucky this year. Even though I’ve been real careful, maybe I was getting too confident. [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening, irises on May 7th, 2010
Well, I am still counting them! I’ve used almost 100 tags so far which includes all of the duplicates. A lot of these were taken after it rained, which it’s been doing a lot here lately. Here is #22.
This is another iris Dave brought from his country home. It has a small blossom but is [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening, irises on May 2nd, 2010
Well, the count continues. The rain helped eight of the irises to bloom bringing my total to 21 different irises so far.
#9 has dark mauve falls and light mauve standards with yellow beards. She’s a tall bearded iris. She was one of many that were here when we moved in.
#10 is Germanica Spinoff that I [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening, irises on Apr 29th, 2010
The iris count continues. You would think I’ve never seen irises as excited as I get to see what’s blooming in the yard. Here are the next four that have bloomed in the last couple of days.
#5 is a Tall Bearded Iris with light yellow-edged white falls and standards and yellow beards.
#6 is an Intermediate [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening, irises on Apr 24th, 2010
It’s amazing what a little rain will do in the garden. It finally rained some yesterday and last night amounting to around an inch. The next batch of rain may come with severe storms. I’m hurrying to get this posted before those storms show up.
I took my daily stroll around the grounds to see how [...]
Posted in buying local, gardening, irises on Apr 22nd, 2010
I will be tagging all of my irises this year. In the past couple of years I’ve tried doing this with a variety of different tags and they all pop out of their location after the ground froze. Dave bought me some nice tags to use this year. The only problem was there were only [...]
Posted in Recipes, crafts, gardening, soap making on Apr 19th, 2010
Now to the chocolate. Dave’s been wanting to make a chocolate soap. Well, it didn’t take any arm twisting to get me to put together a soap formula involving chocolate.
Yum! It smells like chocolate already, but will smell even better once it’s cured. Now to wait four weeks or not!
Posted in Photography, gardening, irises on Apr 16th, 2010
Well, the iris beds are gearing up to bloom. Every day I see more of the buds popping out. Again, I am amazed at how fast everything is coming out and how my areas of irises are changing from green spikes to flowers. This area of the main iris bed was replanted two years ago [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening on Apr 15th, 2010
I continue to get excited about everything blooming here. I stopped by the cherry trees to see how they were doing.
I continued on to the blueberries. Looking good!
The lilac bush has bloomed the best since we’ve been here thanks to a little tlc from hubby.
Then the tulips out front have come alive.
Check out other garden [...]
