What lovely weather we’ve had the past couple of days. I really love this time of the year and all of the color. I worked out in one of the shade area yesterday mulching and getting it ready for the winter. I have found out that if I mulch it in the winter, my work…
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Irises and More
I’ve not blogged about my irises much in the past couple of years. They used to dominate this blog in Spring as I recorded and numbered every one of the beauties. As I mentioned in a recent post, I’ve moved some of the irises up to the front beds and let the other beds go.…
Read MoreWednesday Tour of Happy Acres
I’ve not taken you on a tour of our yard for awhile so I thought a midweek tour would be nice. I took these pictures on Sunday before all of the rain. It’s amazing how everything is growing! If you are new to my blog, we moved to this house in 2007 and as the…
Read MoreEverything is growing up!
I took this picture of one of our beds of lavender recently and was amazed at how much it has grown. But then to look back at the pictures from two years back – Oh my! Two years ago it looked like this: And then last year: Last year everything was early so I was…
Read MorePut a bird on it
In our last session of the Intuitive Art Class, Ronda, who you’ve seen on this blog here and here, gave me these metal birds and a cherry she made from soda cans. She’s so talented! She had seen all of the stuff I had hanging from our cherry tree that the tree service cut down…
Read MoreHighlights from my week
Wow! What a busy week. Here are some highlights. We planted two new cherry trees and put cages around them to keep the deer away. Of the two left from when we planted them several years ago, one was dead so we dug it up. Now we have one we planted five or so years…
Read MorePlaying with ice dyeing again
It’s been awhile since I’ve been ice dyeing so I thought it was time to get back to it. Here are just a few of my results. The following was dyed using Pro MX Fiber Reactive Dyes on a half yard of fabric: 1/2 teaspoon of Red 505, 1/4 teaspoon of Blue 402c, and a…
Read MoreSunday Iris Roundup
Well, it’s Sunday, and time for some more iris eye candy! Here are some of our irises that have bloomed since the last post. It’s so much fun to walk around and see what new has opened up. Here is another one Dave brought over from his farm when we moved here in 2007. The…
Read More2012 iris count
It’s been so much fun again seeing our irises bloom. Every day I check to see if a new one has opened. This one bloomed 4/30/10 and this year it bloomed April 16. Even though this one is a lovely iris, when they first started blooming here when we moved in, there were so many…
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