The rhododendrons are blooming everywhere. These are in the front yard.
I like the splash of animal print these are wearing 🙂
May 16, 2011
Category: Flowers
May 15, 2011
I got a chance to visit with my cousin, Steve, who lives back east but was in the area for a business trip. He and his nephew, Patrick, stopped by the hospital to see mom and then a bunch of us went out to lunch to catch up.
Things are looking good to mom being discharged, maybe Monday or Tuesday, to home instead of to a rehab center. Since I’m staying here at her house, I can help her get around and be here if she needs anything.
This is a shot of the lovely orchid that Steve brought mom.
May 10, 2011
Flowers bloom everywhere up here. These are blue bells growing in my mom’s front yard.
May 9, 2011
The Mother’s Day fairy brought mom this lovely orchid yesterday.
May 7, 2011
My sister, Francine, surprised me by meeting me at the airport and picking me up last night. So I spent the night at her house. I got to visit with my niece and nephew, Rebecca and Aaron, in the morning before heading off to visit my mom, who is in the hospital for some tests and observation.
It’s so pretty here, though 40-50 degrees colder than Austin; much wetter and greener. This is a shot of blossoms on a tree in Fran’s driveway. I think this is a cherry.
May 4, 2011
This is a tiny floret on one of the lantana plants in the backyard. I planted these lantana about 3 years ago, and they have been bright yellow/orange. I have to say that my favorites are the multicolored lantana.
This year, i’m happy to see there there seem to be a few multicolored blooms on this sprawling, hearty plant. I’m wondering if this is from cross pollenation (?) as last year I planted a multi-color lantana in the neighboring bed.
Either way, they’re beautiful. And they attract butterflies in droves.
Apr 17, 2011
This was an absolutely beautiful weekend!
I fired up each zone of our sprinklers to find that 3 of them have leaks – likely a cracked or broken pipe from the freezes last winter. So, we have some manual sprinkler schlepping in our future this spring and summer. I don’t think we’ll get around to having the sprinker system repaired until we figure out what we plan on doing to redesign and relandscape our back patio area.
But with the hand watering the flower bed looks great. I planted a bunch of perennials 2 years ago, and nearly everything is coming back. I did lose 4 of my Penta plants.
This is a shot of the velvety flowers of the Mealycup sage, and in the background you can see the bright red flowers on the Salvia bush.
So pretty.
Apr 15, 2011
The morning glory I planted from seed just 6 weeks ago has already climbed up the metal obelisque and is full of blooms. The flowers are amazing when they are open, but I think are also quite pretty when they are rolled up waiting for the next morning.
You be the judge.
Apr 12, 2011
When I was in Seattle last week, several of my sisters were planting their fuschia hanging baskets. I love fuschias and have never found them down here in Texas. I have always assumed that the Central Texas climate was too unfriendly to fuschias.
I went to Home Depot this weekend to pick up a few things, and what did I spy on the racks of hanging baskets? One, lone, fuschia plant. The guy from the nursery was there stocking the shelves and said it should do ok if I keep it out of the really strong sun and shelter it later in the summer.
I scooped it up and brought it home. It now is hanging outside my back room so that I can keep an eye on it every day. So pretty!
Apr 9, 2011
I flew back to Austin today. I had a great visit and will probably plan on coming up again for another working-visit in about a month or so.
It’s really nice to be home, though. With my sweetie and amongst my flowers 🙂
This is a shot of an evening primrose in the way back from tonight, as the sun was started to drop low.
Last night we finally got around to watching the movie “Inception.” Wow – what a mind-bender. I think I only need to watch it 5 or 6 more times tobe able to follow the story line.
Oh, and on my flight home today I watched the rest of the movie “Hereafter” that I caught part of on the flight out to Seattle 2 weeks ago. Good movie.
Apr 6, 2011
One of the many, giant Rhododendron buds in my mom’s front yard. Another couple weeks and these will be awsome!
Apr 4, 2011
Bremerton is full of these beautiful, blooming cherry trees. It’s hard to describe how amazing they look in person.
Mar 30, 2011
Blurry, but you get the idea. 🙂
Mar 24, 2011
I confess that I had to look up the plural of stamen… either stamina or stamens will do 🙂
Just four days after popping their bud, the first of the amaryllis flowers are open.
This is a macro shot of the stamina in one of them.
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