Kays pictures

Kay wanted you to see her flowers before all the azalea blooms fell off.
These are some of her favorite snapshots.

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Here are some photos of Spring which has arrived with a flourish.
everyday is new and I can't keep up. That's why you'll see some almost duplicates. Looking for the best one.

Burning Bush

Rain Blooms

These haven't bloomed well for 3 seasons, the rains are making up for it

In all the recent rains which we wish would end soon, the plants are taking advantage of the cooler weather and drenched soil. For the first time there are blooms on the elephant ears, something we haven't ever seen in our yard.

Plumbago

As promised, here are some pictures of the flower gift, with a few others thrown in for good measure.
Our town should appreciate the added revenue due to the drought we have been plagued with the last couple of months. Our lawn survived beautifully with much hose dragging. Recent rains brought an end to this windfall.
Long overdue was the carport painting, the stain was bought last year when it was on sale, so the dry spell helped encourage that project.

New yard work

cleaning the shed out. I needed somewhere to put an unused stack of bricks.

Everyone remembers the extraordinary skill I displayed here: http://tejasmidget.multiply.com/photos/album/145/landscapes
So, not to be outdone by older brother, here is some more insight into my never ending productivity. My imagination is only exceeded by my lack of deneiro.

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Move over Lotus & LeeAnn, there is a new game in town.
Here she demonstrates her passion for flowers and creating things,
a vision her paw-paw shares.

Our terrarium project

Amazing things can come from an old potting shed. We call our cacti garden project an ice cream sandwich :)

From a Child's Eye

Sometimes it helps to take another perspective, a different approach. Here, in these photos, all except the three we took of her, taken by Kailani without coaching, we can see her view of a little part of her world. No matter if there is redundancy, what matters is what she thinks is important. These pictures are of her choosing.

lost & found

after we dug up the verbena, we found these two kids under the flowers.

as we keep digging, we continue to discover new things.

Verbena bites the dust

this is before it completely covered the wagon

the rambling pink verbena i started from a few roots took over and obscured my wagon. it was also making the front yard appear too crowded. solution? find it a new home. it's a woodsy plant so it should be happy down by the riverbank with a few of it's cousins.

Around the House

since spring started, here's a fresh look at what we've been up to. busting butt, really, southren style.

Our Nursery Outing

Our trip to the local nursery yielded many good finds. We tore up a lot of stuff and boy, was it HOT! Like a trip to the Amazon, we brought back many specimens, horn worms included, and are trying to propagate them in our own climate. I told Mama that she would have to come and see her plants in our gardens and she agreed. We are working hard to finally landscape our lawn and with a lot of help and Lotus' generosity, we are slowly making it a reality. I still intend to post those belated pictures when I have some spare time.

Landscape Gardner

Work, work, work. All we ever do is work around here.

I love to help my grandpa,
he shows me what to do.
He never says don't do that,
My grandpa's awfully cool.

Work, work, work. All we ever do is work around here.

I guess I'm pretty good at it,
he always tells me so,
I think he likes it just so much,
he hates for me to go.

Work, work, work. All we ever do is work around here.

Mother's Day Garden

been begging for one of these trees

I been workin' it to get most of this done by today. With a lot of help from sis (you may catch a glimpse of a lotus blossom), as well as my doll, who always supports me, and helps out more than these pictures can ever show. These pictures show, in no particular order, some of the before & after progress that we have made over the last few weeks. Many things have been on the to-do list, such as Kay's new fence, new seals and porch for the kid's house, and taking out some of the crossties. More toiling to go.

Spring in Clayton

the wagon is nearly obscured as we haven't had much opportunity to scramble about on it lately.

It is so good to have nice weather for a change, the extra hour of daylight is welcoming as well. The shrubbery and flowers are beginning to wake up from their deep slumber, and we are revitalized into projects taken off the back burner.

Trash to Treasure

what began life as rooftop adornments, http://tejasmidget.multiply.com/photos/album/130 , begins it's new journey as a garden fountain, maybe it will last another 100 years.

Always willing to turn scrap into something useful, this trash will be added to my gardenscape that is slowly evolving in my minds eye.

what is, isn't

only old shot i could find on my hard drive.

remember these urns? they used to sit atop the Eola Hotel for the last 80 years or so. until today. we chopped them down like trees because they were deteriorating so badly they were becoming a hazard. contractors bid for removal; $3,500. our bid; sledgehammers and five gallon buckets. taking down six foot tall 1,500 lb urns on the coldest day we've had so far? priceless. i saved these pieces for i-don't-know-what-yet. sorry folks for no demolition pictures, i was out on a ledge. :o)

New Garden

like many of us, it doesn't like it's roots disturbed.

the hand-me-down plants get a new home, i will try to make them happy here.