If you do not respect, like, love, or hold in high value yourself and what you do in your life, contentment or happiness will elude you. On the other hand, emptiness and lack of fulfillment will be your inheritance. Unable to feel admiration towards others’ hard-won accomplishments, unfortunately only frustration or envy will abound within … Continue reading Own Who You are
Friends, I am getting there. I’ve gone through 72 pounds (32.66 kg) of fertilizer so far. To give you an idea of what I’ve done, I followed the “per plant” directions which state for each established plant, work 1 cup of fertilizer into soil around drip line. To go one step further, I weighed that … Continue reading Getting There!
There I stood. In front of a massive mountain of horse poop and standing on that horse poop as well. I was in my sneaks planning on taking said sneaks off and putting my muck boots on. Well, my left sneak decided to have a knot when I went to untie it. My sneak’s … Continue reading Manure Mountain
*Turn phones horizontal/visit blog to view FULL SCREEN* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Between the heat and being tuckered out from this landscape escapade I’ve been involved with, I played hooky again on Tuesday, taking pictures from my backyard and in Como Park. Even though I could barely breathe (NO air!) and literally soaking wet with perspiration (Major shower … Continue reading I’m Doing This!
(Two great songs connected to links ⇓ you don’t want to miss.) Time has been doing some strange I’m talking weird things of late. Last week I thought was at least 2 weeks long with most days finding me not knowing which day it was. Time looped round and round as I dug and dug, planting … Continue reading Time (10 IMAGES)
Yesterday you could find me in my front gardens, opening them for the season. It feels so good to be outside once again with sunshine and blue skies all around me. I decided to bring my Canon with my 100-400mm lens attached along for the day. On one of my breaks I sauntered on over … Continue reading The Beginning (7 Images)
All gardeners know the importance of weeding. There is that individual weed, (Dandelion is foremost in my mind), where you must dig out that weed down to the tiniest bit of the root. If not, yep that Dandy grows right back mocking all the work you had done prior, in an attempt at getting that … Continue reading The Miracle Weed (6 IMAGES)
As some of you know from my post before this one that in not doing any research, I put a very potent insecticide on my Roses that not only kills the parasitic insects that will rapidly destroy a Rose bush, but bees as well. I was willing to dig up my Roses to save the … Continue reading Resurrection
Due to not doing research properly on Spectracide Triazidcide Insect Killer/ For Lawns & Landscapes, I am now contemplating on digging up all my Roses. Why? Bert, you are right. This spray will kill bees. I am doing everything I can to save the bees, and I have now sprayed a chemical on my Roses … Continue reading Between A Hard Rock and A Hard Place
The image below is cropped in tight, and it was by far an extremely difficult shot to get. I really edited it in both PS and LR in order to get as clear an image that I could, to make what I focused on to pop out. My husband when he viewed the entire photograph, … Continue reading Mystery Monday
Yep, I surely am, in that dirt again. I bought SO many flowers yesterday, that when I came home my husband asked me if I bought the nursery out. (smile) My answer … just about! [GRIN] So, today I am putting up supports for my 8 Peony Bushes and planting the gorgeous petals I bought yesterday.
Yes, that time has come, even IF it is still raining, my gardens are calling me. That means I will not be here as often as I normally am. The blog visits, the interactions, the commenting, the being with you, all going to be radically decreased. And this time, it will be all weekend.
What did I tell you? When rain is forecasted here, it does not rain. So again I find myself looking at another garden day. Today, though, I will be a lot easier on myself then I was yesterday. As you can see from this photo, I did a ton of work yesterday. It doesn’t look like there is much in this garden (between sidewalk and house, towards the house), but there are a good (how many did I count yesterday?) ten maybe, Rose Bushes, most of them being ground cover Roses.
I thank you ALL from the bottom of my heart for your cooperation with me today. I am deeply moved that you are exercising control and NOT commenting. Oh, yes, it is hard on me as well, because I really do miss you. Bless your Hearts! I just wrote a poem the Flower Faeries whispered … Continue reading Thank YOU!
In Heaven On Earth 