Friday, August 31, 2012

White and White.....



From the handful of seeds that I harvested from my zinnia patch the last two years I have received two different white flowers.



Thursday, August 30, 2012

Thursday's Geranium.......



My fancy leafed hardy geranium finally put out some new blooms. The plant is timid having small in number of blooms but at least it is blooming.



Wednesday, August 29, 2012

One Red Leaf........




My poinsettia has done well out under the shade tree.  It is in the plastic planter shaped like a swan and I think the plastic has been good to keep it from drying out.  For some reason I have one reddish leaf that has formed on the under side of all of the foilage.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Mechanical Visual............


I need to mow but I don't know when I will be scheduling that into my life. The new, used mower works well and I will have to lower the blade to get a shorter cut this time.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Remembering Maine.......


The Atlantic shoreline off of Acadia National Park.  This is an archived photo that reminds me of great memories of our visit to Maine two years ago.


Saturday, August 25, 2012

Promises of Blooms..........


The sedum and phlox will welcome the rain that will be falling today.  I should be able to post the flowers in the future. We will have cooler temperatures today with the high of 80 degrees.

Crow

 They are native to Iowa. He seemed to be so big because we are use to seeing grackles and blackbirds. The blue shine is striking and moves ...