Jen challenged me to a katydid contest, that I thought would be pretty easy because I can hear them chirping loudly all over my yard. So I went outside with my camera, but the only bug I found was a fly! Fortunately for me, Ben came home from work and was up to the task!
As a child, this little vase was always my favorite. I don’t know anything about its history, was it always mine, or did it belong to my mom first? It’s hard not having her here to ask. I do know that I remember it being in my bedroom as a child, filled with summer flowers from my mom’s garden. These days, I have to google all the flowers I put in any vase, just to make sure they are not poisenous, because my cat Rikki will eat anything.
I originally thought this was a grasshopper, but when I googled the image, I found out that it is a bush cricket , commonly known as a katydid.
Here is the link to the Wikipedia page on katydids. If the picture of the corn looks disorienting, it is because I turned it sideways, so that you can get a better look at the katydid.
One week ago, Ben was hired as an interactive developer for a company called thunder::tech. Saturday, he took home his graduation present from Chris’s mom, which is a new Hyundai Accent, and in a couple short weeks, He is planning to move into an apartment with one of his best friends. How cool is that?
Margaret has challanged me to a “Hosta-off” to determine who has the biggest hosta. As you can see, I should win this competition easily.
It really is a group of my hostas that Ben has inserted in a cityscape for me. I was hoping he would teach me how he did this and he tried. I haven’t grasped how to do this myself as of yet.
My friend and neighbor Jean gave me a pot of Daisies from her garden a few years back. They established themselves right away and I now have transplanted several patches from the original.
The name Daisy is derived from “day’s eye”, due to this flower’s resemblance to the sun. The yellow disk in the middle is the sun and the petals are rays the of light that surround it.
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It’s called PhotoFunia.com, where you can turn your photos into comic masterpieces. I tried it out and here are my favorites. And yes, I should have been doing homework for my class and cleaning my house, but I had fun doing this!
Here is president Ricks
My famous husband…
Yes Margaret, Athena is not the only fashion superstar!
Astilbe is one of the easiest perennials to grow as they can tolerate full shade to full sun. They do like a lot of water, especially when you are trying to establish the root system of a new planting.
Also known as feather flower, they are a long flowering perennial that will attract bees and butterflies
My neighbor Jean gave me a package of lupine seeds that I planted over a year ago. By the end of last summer I had a green leafy plant but no flowers.
Below is the first flower I have seen. I know the picture is a little confusing because this garden is getting pretty wild, but it is the stalk in the middle with the two tone little pink flowers
Earlier this summer I posted an entry about my mother-in law’s garden. She had many Lupines in bloom. Look here if you want to revisit it!