Canada Garden

  This might be the most perfect June weather EVER . . .

Mama took us to lunch at Henry Ford's home.  Beautiful home and gardens, good food, and really good company. I hope I look as good a...

 In about three hours this morning, I yanked out hundreds of maple seedlings, scads of creeping charlie, vine after vine of bindweed, and a...

Our hot-humid-temps+daily-thunderstorm weather has been the norm lately, but this morning is really pleasant.  Hoping that we have a few day...

I'm back home from my trip to see my Michigan peeps :-)  So good to see everybody and to spend some time with my mom and my sisterbelle ...

Thanks to Mark for sacrificing and tying yet another tie for me!  I couldn't do these without him :-)  Happy Father's Day to Mark an...

Lots of pretty daylilies blooming in the garden now, along with hot humid temps and daily thunderstorms.  I'm off to Michigan in the mor...

When we visited the MBG last month, we really liked this little exhibit in the children's garden.  This section was built as a "jai...

That creeping charlie is disturbing my peace!

  Lots of weeding and planting this weekend and now I'm ready for a rest!   Pedestal from F2F, Bybee planter from a junk store here in ...

This one went to Jo-An for her birthday.  She even exercised on her birthday!

Just read The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller.   I couldn't put this one down.  Really nice,  complicated life and love story.  It...

Continuing with the "in-the-garden to in-the-vase" theme, here's asiatic lily lollipop along with a clematis that I love but c...

  This is Blue Angel again--with the sunlight coming through the dogwood branches to spotlight the blooms.  I've taken a lot of shots of...

Amazing what a shovel and some tough love can do.  So much better!