I get to post this picture on a gardening website, in the Bird, Bugs, and flutterbies section no less. All because Allie is wearing a butterfly sweatshirt and jumping on the bed with the butterfly pillow. And because I wanted to! She really liked the pillow, so if you happen to have a 1 1/2 . . . → Read More: Butterflies In November, Really!
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I couldn’t help but post some of the beautiful shots that Lucille sent. I don’t know where they came from. I do agree you that you should be sure to see the last one. And a Smile from God. You just have to love God’s sense of humor…. . . . → Read More: Birds and Butterflies Interested in seeing the results of this experiment? See 4 Out of 5 Mums Came Back. I posted an article a few weeks ago on mums. Basically • I like them, • Many of the ones I plant in the autumn don’t come back, • and I would like them to. You can see here that . . . → Read More: OhWhatAWednesday – The Mum Experiment I can’t help but wonder when my garden will be truly done for the year. We are surprisingly still picking dahlias, a variety of sedums look great, and then there are the grasses. Gotta love the grasses. They’ll add texture to the garden all winter. Today, we’ll talk about Autumn Joy Sedum. Here is how . . . → Read More: OhWhatAWednesday – Autumn Joy Sedum Here is one of my pumpkins from last year. True to form, I picked a not-so-easy one. Also true to form, it was garden related with butterflies and flowers. I spent an afternoon making my 2 pumpkins, and enjoyed that. I used a regular paring knife, and just didn’t carve all the way through. . . . → Read More: Pumpkin-a-day #5 – My Not-So-Easy Carved Pumpkin Autumn is such a lovely time of year! Mike and I seriously look forward to it. We even chose to get married in the Fall so we could honeymoon in Door County during the color change. And we like mums. Not like we like Dahlias, but they are a nice seasonal plant. We even planted . . . → Read More: To Mum Or Not To Mum 
. . . → Read More: August Closeups Of My Garden We are really enjoying the hummingbirds this year. The hummingbird feeder is right outside the window, and they don’t seem to mind us being around. How do we get hummingbirds to come to our yard? We’re thinking it’s the red visuals – two huge planters full of million bells on one side of the . . . → Read More: How we attract hummingbirds I’d say the operative word in the title of “We’re planning a patio” is “planning”. We’ve been planning it for a while. Ever since the driveway bricks from a neighbor found their way to our yard. You don’t want to know how long ago that was. Really, you don’t. So if you think our patio . . . → Read More: We’re Planning A Patio The question is … Why did Mike put a music stand in our backyard? |
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