Company’s Coming
Tag: garden chores
Rain Day
Thought I would get my garden boots cleaned off in the rain today.
It worked!
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Glorious Sunshine
The sun just makes things–better.
A week of storms, damaging winds and more rain than ever recorded in this Counties history.
The garden is slowly recovering, the water soaking in.
What you can’t see in this image; millions of mosquitoes!
Saving The Peonies
Storms are taking a toll on, well– everything!
I cut an armful of Peonies to at least enjoy the fragrant blossoms a few days in the house.
New And Improved
The new and improved garden pond!
Shallow edges making the pond more visible from around the garden.
Tumbled rock to line the pond, with field stones and limestone used in the waterfall and edges.
New areas of the garden have opened up to more work and opportunities.
I’m planting in with lots of starter perennials and sneaking plants from one area of the garden to another.
A friend offered some of her ferns and I can’t wait to go get them for the newest shade area of the garden.
A frog has moved in all ready and is happily croaking, but I have yet to spy him.
Working on a little surprise for the pond.
Any guesses?
Heavy On The Daisies, Please!
Yes, my garden must have daisies.
This childhood favorite flower, gently swaying in my garden…makes me very happy.
The State Of Things
With busy days in the garden, I have been forgetting to pick up my camera!
Some chores have been checked off the list, with many more still to go.
Scraping the greenhouse paint and then giving it a fresh coat of color is still a big one to get done.
To bad Rosie can’t help!
Heirloom Garden Tools
A most generous gift from my cousin John. I am so thrilled to have these hand forged tools to work my garden.
“The smell of iron and coal, the sound of the hammer ringing off the anvil. The feel of pushing around steel as though it was just so much clay. Looking at a piece of scrap metal through my Mind’s Eye, and then molding it into form. There has always been and will always be a treasure trove of excitement to the senses for me in the Blacksmith Shop.”
John Weichert-Blacksmith
Red Bear Originals
http://www.redbearoriginals@yahoo.com
Divide And Conquer
A weekend of garden work.
Digging, dividing, staining, pondering.
Good to be back in the garden.
Whistle While You Work
It was most certainly a work day here in the garden.
For the first time this Spring; we made progress on the chore list.
A good, tired feeling tonight as I close up the greenhouse for the night.
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