Here we are on the last Sunday in August. How did THAT happen? Teacher Man goes back to school tomorrow (it’s workshop week) and Joe has just one week of vacation left. While I know I will eventually be happy to get back on a regular schedule, I don’t think I’m quite…
A few completely random points I want to make before I dive into the photos I took over the weekend: The mosquitos are awful. Beyond awful. As in, we can’t even be outside at any time of the day or evening without getting rudely assaulted – unless we wear bug…
I’m back from my work trip/vacation and have a ton of photos to share. But first … I took some pics of my gardens tonight. The lighting was perfect – the mosquitos were not. (I risked a zillion bites for all these photos! Ha!) I’ll be back soon to write…
How was your weekend? Ours was nice and uneventful at home. We golfed, we enjoyed time on our patio, and today I packed up my suitcase for the next two weeks. I’m off to Washington DC tomorrow morning for a work-related conference and I’m looking forward to seeing my turkey…
July is nearing and that means the gardens are really starting to come into their own. The lilacs and peonies are long gone, but they are replaced by asiatic lilies, colorful annuals, and soon-to-bloom coneflowers, rudbeckia, hydrangea, and daisies. I so love every season of the garden as each is…
It’s peony’s time in the garden right now. After the lilacs reach their prime, it seems the peonies come to life and take over the scents and smells in the air. Such lush, pretty flowers! I have three peonies, two in varying degrees of pink and the other white with a…
I am sitting here writing this post on Sunday night and sipping a very refreshing glass of rose, very grateful for a three-day weekend that makes it seems like we’ve had two Saturdays in a row. (And certainly beyond grateful for the freedoms in the U.S. we have thanks to so…
We’ve had 3.6 inches of rain since Monday and it’s looking like Ireland around here. 🙂 It’s always amazing to me how flowers and veggies and seeds just know when it’s a “real” rain from nature – and not the water from my hose. Everything has seemed to pop up…