Canada Garden

The one in the middle came from mammy's.  I had two of them, but one day I sat in one and it just kept going back and back and back in s...

The orange lilies are gone.  All gone.  One more lily wave to go for this season--great big beautiful white ones  just beginning to bloom o...

It's been a good summer for reading! The Scent of Rain & Lightning , Nancy Pickard, about a girl whose parents were killed when sh...

This is one of the last daylilies that I added to the garden.  For the past few years, I've been saying "no more daylilies. . . .  ...

  I look forward to the glad lady at the Saturday morning farmer's market every year.   Her glads are so beautiful, they last all week, ...

A little tip of  malabar spinach finding it's way to the top.

My lily sculpture (from The Farm) has traveled around the yard this year, following the lilies as they bloom.  It'll be moving over to ...

      We went to the water park. . . TwIcE!  Betsy loved to aim the horses that spouted water out of their noses :)   She ran and ran. . . ...

So so much fun with Betsy & Kyle at the park.  We're heading back to work today, in the rAiN!, which is so welcome for this late-Jul...

I've been having my morning coffee on Judson and Rachel's front porch over the last few days.  Beautiful crepe myrtles  blooming in ...

Another design in a flower arranger from The Farm by Rich Zimmerman.  This one went to work with me last week and it outlasted me. Flowers a...

  Cleome in a pitcher and sweet peas in a jar.

  More  Scheherazade  from The Lily Garden.   They're spectacular this year.

Scheherazade from The Lily Garden .   And another one from The Lily Garden, maybe lillium henryi.  I'm terrible about keeping the names...

I caught a little bit of a round-table discussion on The Deadliest Catch last night.  Fishermen from Alaska who are living still with the ef...

My mom has a small farm in her backyard garden--strawberries and raspberries and green beans, corn, okra and tomatoes and peas, and of cours...

PJ & Mama took me to a little shop in Michigan to look at Kirk's Folly jewelry.   This pin came home with me and I've really enj...