Many plants are blooming in our new front yard garden, filled with flowers, shrubs and herbs. It is still in progress and the birds, butterflies and bees are enjoying the area! And so are we  :)  ...

It's so weird being outside right now because it's the middle of July, yet it feels like September or even October on those Indian summer type days. It's been like this for the past week, and while it's welcoming, it's g...

~ Backdated 17 July 2008 ~Shortly after my return from the Botanic Gardens, I fell ill with my temperature running high. It could be due to the time I spent under the sun all day, without drinking any water. I had walked...

We had about a week of really hot weather, that is above 30C.  We have been spending the late afternoonéearly evening outside as it is either cooler or feels cooler with the breeze.  Been BBQing a lot. Will be ...

Yesterday I went to the garden to water, weed, and admire the plants. The tomatoes have mostly shirked their tomato-bearing duties. The sunflowers, especially the volunteers, are four feet tall and dappled with golden bl...

 My nephew and his wife have a Daylily Farm with over 500 varieties of daylilies.On Sat they had the Peak Bloom Open House.Seeing all the daylilies in bloom is a beautiful sight.   He is digging out the daylily...

Yesterday was Winter's SIXTH birthday!!!   Today's Lexei's FOURTH!!! Here's some photos of yesterday, Gramma & Grampa Smith and Uncle Jordan came to visit & shower the girls with presents!  I don't know what's so funny here......

And....then....I did not blog because I just got all caught up in life.What have I been up to? Reading, swimming in the pool, catching up on the laundry, watering the garden regularly and um....there was that new compute...

"Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds." -   Carl von Linnaeus This is the first time I have ever been able to grow sunflowers....

My first lilies of the season. Darian's first lilies Ever