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Summer Garden 2014

I’ve had this Hydrangea shrub for many years.  I admit to having transplanted it several times due to the shade that keeps appearing every couple of years.  Some caused by my trees and shrubs sprouting up in the vicinity and once due to a neighbor planting several very large privacy shrubs near his fence line.  Making up for lost time, it not only decided to bloom all the colors of the rainbow on one shrub.  Nice feat when you consider that the Hydrangea’s color is determined by the PH balance of its soil.

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Check out the 3 butterflies I caught in mid-air to the left of the flower!
Check out the 3 butterflies I caught in mid-air to the left of the flower!

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White butterfly on my oregano

 

Garden Tour

I love the way gardens look in late spring.  When everything has greened and awakened.  If you love blooms, you can check out some of my links and research the bloom times of your favorite plants and plant accordingly to be assured you will always have garden flowers.  Most of mine are for foliage because I love being surrounded with green and I am stuck with mostly shade so I have learned to adjust from poppies and roses to hostas and ferns.

2014MayYardGardenMisc 022Got the red, white and blue motif for my Memorial Day.

I hope you enjoy the garden tour.  Come back anytime.

Have a safe and blessed Memorial Day!

Daily Prompt: If I Ruled the World!

I’m reminded of the line in the Wizard of Oz “If I were king of the foreeessstttt!”                                                “Not Prince, not Duke, not Earl!”

Just the thought of it makes me feel all puffed up and arrogant.

The law of nature I would change is to take away everyone’s ego so they don’t feel like I just said this line from a song makes me feel.

No one wanting to be better or have more.  No one letting their egos get in the way of anything so people would actually get along, we would have no wars, no contests, etc.

Life would be lived for the sake of life, not the sake of what we want others to think of us or what we want to gain.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition

Noticed the contrast of the one beautiful living flower against the background of the dead ones and the cold stone.
The bright windows peaking out from behind the tree branch.
A reflection from ? looking like a cross appeared on the side of an old garage in my neighborhood a few years ago. A light against the grunge.
created after all the solar flare warnings. Fire and ice!
Using PhotoDraw cutout and filled with dry earth.

Enjoy!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

Forget me nots
Forget me nots

This truly is a post dedicated to change. I changed my Internet Explorer to 10 and was not able to access any photos in my library to insert into my posts. I just “changed” it back to 9 by deleting Internet Explorer from my recent upgraded programs on Windows 7 and voila’! So if any of you are having this problem, you can switch back only if you are still under the Windows 7 operating system.

Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood got Lost in the Details

Really poking the last couple of weeks and not only has my neighborhood become lost in the details, but so has my brains because I swore I would not miss one of these challenges!

Since the “details” is fog, due to a very chilly and damp March so far, I have decided to upload some early spring flowers that I look in 2012 at the same time this year.  There are absolutely no early spring flowers here yet, but dare to dream!

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