Passions I can't deny
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, Ramblings, crafts, recycling on May 10th, 2010
I love to go junking either at the local St. Vincent’s or Goodwill stores. But I also like to visit resale shops. However, I don’t seem to do this much anymore. Usually when I pass by one of these places, I think about all of the gardening and house stuff I need to do and [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, gardening on Apr 13th, 2010
I know I have complained about the previous owners who did very little yard work here at Happy Acres. However, there is an upside to that. Due to their lack of interest in the outdoors, we have lots of plants to divide for the annual SWIMGA plant sale coming up May 1 and 2. These [...]
Posted in Cooking, Photography, Ramblings, Recipes on Apr 7th, 2010
It’s finally spring here at Happy Acres. We ate our first bunch of asparagus. Yum! We harvested a little over 6 ounces so far, but every day I see more and more of the green goodies poking through the soil. There is nothing like fresh asparagus. And to think I used to not like this [...]
