Weird red polka dot Friday
This is a picture of my perennial chives plant. If I decide to make baked potatoes with sour cream and chives for dinner tonight, I think I should leave out the lady bug flavoring.
This is a picture of my perennial chives plant. If I decide to make baked potatoes with sour cream and chives for dinner tonight, I think I should leave out the lady bug flavoring.
My cat Pigeon spends a lot of time outside when the weather is good.
We have an acre and a half of land here, and she has explored it all quite thoroughly.
When I am outside too, she joins me. Sometimes I think she worries that I’ll get into trouble if she doesn’t look after me because she is always near by.
When Pigeon is ready to come inside, she stares me down from the porch through picture window. She goes in and out so many times during the course of a day, that I sometimes loose track of just exactly where she is. Sometimes I’ll call her, to get her back inside, and she’ll walk into the greatroom with an expression on her face that says “What’s the matter with you ?- I WAS inside already!”
This pretty wildflower gets it’s name from its mottled leaves, which look a little like the skin of a trout.
Only four to six inches in height, the Trout Lilly prefers to grow in wooded areas, between the months of March and May.
The yellow flowers follow the path of the sun and close for the night.
The year is 1962, and I am four years old, posing with my mom and thirteen year old sister Rosemary. Don’t we look stylish?
Today was a gorgeous day here in northern Ohio. Here are a few pictures from the garden.
This is a picture form the archives. I wonder just what was Rikki looking for.
The first Spring we were in our home way back in 1983, I was surprised to find my lawn sprinkled with patches of daffodils. The couple who lived here before us were into naturalized gardening. They planted bulbs all over the west side of our property. I’s quite pretty to look at, and very hard to mow around!
Here are several bunches of daffodils inside a patch of periwinkle, that leads into our back woods. This is a link to a post on the subject of naturalized gardens, I made last year around this time.
These pretty blue flowers are always the first to bloom in my yard every Spring. They are called Spring Beauty Scilla or Siberian Squill.
Grown from hardy bulbs, these clusters of tiny slate blue flowers originated from Russia and Eurasia.
Spring beauties are very resilient to snaps of cold weather and snow. Fortunately, they recover nicely.
They are a great choice for naturlaized gardens like mine, because they tend to show up in unexpected places, like in this picture of my woods.
One new thing that I have learned lately is how to blur a background, but keep the subject sharp. This picture of my cat Bree is the original.
I like the way Bree pops out in this picture. The sofa in the background has been blurred. This effect was accomplished with the help of my open source photo editing software called The GIMP. I cut out Bree with the scissors tool, and then selected only the background to blur.
