tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69814151642705694672024-02-07T23:09:49.537-07:00laughing with angelsJunehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283259375743586344noreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981415164270569467.post-29169322749454338532018-11-04T15:09:00.000-07:002018-11-04T15:09:01.412-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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Can you believe it's November already? </div>
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I'm in denial and refuse to be convinced that it really is! </div>
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I've been pretty much non-stop this summer and I just want a chance to sit down </div>
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enjoy it a little. I really should take a page out of my husband's book and figure out how </div>
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to sit and not feel guilty about all the things still left to do. He calls the </div>
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hammock his office furniture😊<br />
This setting below is more my style as far as a place to relax goes!<br />
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~my daughter found this wonderful iron crib for me at a garage sale years ago~</div>
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I love the work in the garden, it's just everything else that needs done that makes me feel</div>
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like I should be moving all the time. You all know by now that I live 60 miles from any real</div>
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shopping, so it's really time consuming for me to be a consumer 😃 My little town's grocery store </div>
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closed 2 years ago and wow, has that made me keep on my toes to see how the gallon of milk in the frig is holding up.<br />
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This past March snippets of my garden were featured in Daphne's Diary and I would<br />
love to thank them for including me in this really lovely issue!</div>
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The peonies did well in the garden this spring even in spite of the fact that I had to move 20 plus</div>
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plants the previous summer. They were not doing well in the beds where they were </div>
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because of the overhead sprinkling and some were in too much shade to bloom well.</div>
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They should be back to blooming abundantly by this coming spring!</div>
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The three photos below is of a favorite of mine called Raspberry Sundae. I really have</div>
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to get another one or two of these.<br />
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Love that they have a bit of yellow among those frilly petals</div>
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Nothing beats a rusty wheelbarrow with a bucket of peonies</div>
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My favorite tall lilies blooming here in the photo below stand shoulder high on me.<br />
I'm 5'1" so I guess that doesn't make them all that tall does it?😆</div>
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......and then were roses!</div>
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I will miss summer for sure, but it really has been a beautiful Autumn here and I hope to be back soon with some Fall foliage from the garden.</div>
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I didn't get my act together enough before Christmas to share how I decorated for the Season<br />
this year and wanted to post it before 2018~<br />
so here goes...<br />
Just to warn you though, this post has waaay too many photos!!!<br />
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I did the woodsy thing again since it's what I love and my trees are prevalent on<br />
our mountain property.<br />
The aspens sometimes sucker up in fencelines and other<br />
places we can't have them grow, so I usually have lots to choose from.<br />
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This year I did hydrangeas in the branches and the photo above is before I had them all<br />
hung up. I loved the look in this photo and not so much in the light of day, because truthfully,<br />
it looked like one big mess, but I'm glad I got this shot before I had hung them all up.<br />
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I did more trees than I usually do and loved the look of an enchanted grove that it gave<br />
the living room in the evening with all the lights lit.<br />
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I decorated the trees with a myriad of things. <br />
Some of the items have special meaning for me, and others I just think are pretty.<br />
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I had ten trees in the grouping and as you can see, they aren't that impressive without the lights<br />
lit, but to get a decent photo straight on, I had to take it with the lights out.<br />
Even then, they look much prettier in person.<br />
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I do love how they look through the reflection of the mirror though!<br />
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I did the mantle in silver and gold with sprinklings of hydrangea petals<br />
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I'm crazy about this old photo of sleigh riders in years gone by<br />
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Here he's showing me one of his brothers in <a href="http://belleblanc.com/">Belle Blanc's</a> <i>Merry Christmas</i> book</div>
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Sharing a little fall I've been enjoying lately before</div>
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I begin decorating for the holidays. I can hardly believe </div>
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enjoying each other's company and over-indulging on pies😆 </div>
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gathered-garden gifts</div>
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rose hips,oak leaves, and crabapples</div>
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I love the red leaf roses and I have them everywhere.</div>
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I enjoy them most when Fall comes to the garden.</div>
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Brandywine crabapple<br />
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Below is the Golden Raindrops crabapple fruit still hanging on the tree.<br />
It's little apples are usually the first eaten by the birds that come in flocks<br />
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they devoured the snowdrift crabapple fruit that grows right next to it instead and<br />
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Snowdrift crabapples turn from green to orange in the fall</div>
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before it's foliage turns a pretty autumn gold</div>
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Centurion crabapple</div>
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Hallward's Silver spirea shrub</div>
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Weeping birch<br />
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I wish everyone a lovely Thanksgiving holiday!!!</div>
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sending hugs to you all!</div>
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HELLO-<span style="font-size: x-small;">HELLO-</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">HELLOooooooooo</span><br />
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Remember me????<br />
I have a lot of excuses about why I dropped off the edge of Blogland,<br />
but not one of them is very good,<br />
so I'll just say that I felt like doing a post today 😍💕<br />
Thank you to all who have messaged me to see if everything was fine.<br />
It is!<br />
Every time I would think about doing a post, I would just go blank.<br />
I had a lot of pics to share, but no words to go with them, so I would just go<br />
post them on Instagram instead.<br />
Today, I decided these pics are getting so old that I had better share them before<br />
another months rolls by.<br />
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I thought this little teacup full of apple blossoms and lily of the valley was a good opener.<br />
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Then the lilacs bloomed</div>
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I have to share a couple of photos of the crabapples in bloom.<br />
I wait and wait for them to bloom and fill the air with their scent.</div>
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This next crabapple tree is Snowdrift.<br />
Pure white blossoms totally cover this tree ever year.<br />
The scent of them is absolutely amazing!<br />
I think when it's in the bud stage it looks like it's covered in bubble gum😍</div>
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the weeping Red Jade<br />
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I love the little Ballerina roses</div>
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If you've made it all the way to the end of this very picture laden post,<br />
then thank you very much! I<br />
I have so much more to share, but must save it for another day.<br />
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I've missed you all so much and hoping that all my wonderful friends<br />
are well and safe from the devastating storms and quakes of late.</div>
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Happy Valentine's Day friends! </div>
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I hope you are filling up on your share of chocolates</div>
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and heart shaped sugar cookies :)))</div>
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(I wonder if the sugar cookie thing is something that just we Americans do :)</div>
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They've always been a favorite of mine.</div>
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I bought myself a little five dollar bouquet of roses at the market the other day<br />
and of course I had to get a few pics for February 14.<br />
Flowers have the power to cheer us and lift our spirits, and after a few<br />
gloomy grey days, I was needing a little lift.</div>
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The last time I visited one of my daughter's I was able to take this chippy bench<br />
off her hands since she is changing up her bedroom to a totally different style.<br />
Yay for me!<br />
I needed a little something here at the foot of the bed because our little dog T.T. Rabbit<br />
isn't able to jump up here anymore do to his age.<br />
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BUT,<br />
somehow he manages to still do this :)<br />
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Valentine's Day</div>
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She and I love anything Greengate and Maileg and so she gifted me</div>
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with the lovely towel and cake stand from Greengate, </div>
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and the cupids are Maileg. </div>
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Hugs from me</div>
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I wasn't able to do very much in the way of decorating for Christmas this year<br />
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Nothing like posting Christmas decorating after January 1st,<br />
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I did the aspen trees from our Fishcreek property again.</div>
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So this was it for us this Christmas, but it was<br />
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A couple of weeks ago, I decided I had put off redoing my old wreath long<br />
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I always reuse my old straw wreath forms and this time I glued the fresh hydrangeas<br />
to the form and let it dry naturally.<br />
I usually make my wreaths out of dried ones because I usually make them in the winter<br />
after the garden is all put to bed, but we had a few days of rain so I was able to take the<br />
time to enjoy putting it together.<br />
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It was so much easier using the hydrangeas fresh and will make sure I do it every time.</div>
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The hydrangeas I used for this are the Limelight, and while they go through many<br />
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really love these colors!</div>
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I wanted to share one of my favorite places in the garden and the autumn hues </div>
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that this area had colored up before we had a wild windstorm </div>
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that has left most the trees in the garden bare.</div>
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This birdbath was made by a friend of ours who made it from<br />
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I love this birdbath!<br />
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This area of the garden was planned to make a special place for the grandchildren.</div>
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It's secluded because of the hedge of redtwig dogwood, diablo ninebark, and ashleaf </div>
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It created a little allee for them to play in and not be seen.<br />
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I have to say that it is my favorite space too!<br />
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I love the redleaf rose in the fall! I think this has got to be one of my favorite<br />
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This one along the allee is huge and turns the loveliest color.<br />
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Then there's the Hallward Silver spirea with it's yellowing leaves<br />
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A little shot of the laceleaf elderberry branch.<br />
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I wanted to post the last rose bouquet I picked from the garden just before<br />
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I think I picked it on about the tenth of October and then the rains<br />
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I've always said that I love the roses of Fall the best.<br />
The colors are richer in the fall and they last on the bush so much longer<br />
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This rose is Morden Blush and is one of my very, very favorites!</div>
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Morden Blush is one of the easiest and hardiest roses to grow here in zone 3/4.</div>
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Junehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283259375743586344noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981415164270569467.post-8797136428796205582016-10-12T17:03:00.000-06:002016-10-12T17:03:25.360-06:00abandoned. . . . .or not?<div style="text-align: center;">
A little over two weeks ago I took a bouquet of garden blooms<br />
'up the creek' to a favorite abandoned house that is on the neighboring<br />
property of where my little Juniebird house (she shed) is.<br />
Years ago when we lived on my husband's grandfather's ranch that<br />
is just north of this house, I would pass it almost daily and<br />
think how awesome it would be to fix it up and live in it someday.<br />
Well that never happened,<br />
but we did buy the 40 acres that was originally part of grandpa's that ran south of it,<br />
so I have always been able to keep my eye on it over the years.<br />
I had never been in it until the other<br />
day when I decided to trespass a little and crawl through the fence with<br />
my little bouquet and camera<br />
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The interior walls are almost non-existent now and the windows are gone,</div>
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but I could see that in it's day this house had a lot of charm.</div>
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From every window in the house are beautiful views and I could see<br />
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Oh I forgot to say I brought up the little chair too,<br />
you know, in case I got tired :)<br />
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This photo I snapped below gives you an idea of it's surroundings<br />
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As I was gathering things back up, I thought about trying to find a way to the upstairs<br />
because the staircase was totally absent, but as I looked up into the<br />
second story I saw that the house really wasn't abandoned at all.<br />
As you can guess, I gave up any intention of following through with climbing<br />
up the 2x4 walls and joining this guy in case he had the inclination<br />
to put his talons into my hair and cause me to go screaming out of the door<br />
and through the fence and down the road to my car!!!!<br />
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But, it won't be the last photo shoot I do in HIS house!<br />
I just hope next time I go he's out for the day.<br />
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I wanted to share just a few of the flowers I have been enjoying from the<br />
garden since I last posted.<br />
This little rose is a favorite of mine and is called Ballerina.<br />
It doesn't get very big in my garden because it has to start over from<br />
the root every year because it isn't zoned for our area. But whatever it's size, I'll<br />
take what blooms it's little canes decide to give me.<br />
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I like to pair Morden Blush roses with Limelight hydrangeas.<br />
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Below is a little outhouse that my daughter bought at a farm auction for me and<br />
we put in the garden for a tool shed.<br />
It's in a very secluded part of the garden and looks very charming<br />
under the trees. I understand the the normal person wouldn't<br />
have anything like this in their garden...but there's nothing normal<br />
about me or my garden!<br />
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The second bloom on the John Cabot rose in September.</div>
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Thank you all who read here and I wish you lovely Autumn or Spring<br />
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Junehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283259375743586344noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981415164270569467.post-17385750986658177762016-08-29T15:32:00.001-06:002016-09-09T10:14:12.102-06:00up the creek to the shack in the woods...<div style="text-align: center;">
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Hello friends!<br />
Before we take the drive to the shack (aka: Juniebird House)<br />
I wanted to share a couple arrangements of flowers from my garden.<br />
The garden has struggled a little this year from aphids and spider mites<br />
so I haven't had a lot of flower photos to share with you,<br />
but fall is on the way and the garden always makes a little comeback, so I'm<br />
hoping to have a few to share later.<br />
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I haven't had anything much going on that has been blog-worthy so there's been<br />
a lot of silence from me all summer.<br />
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2014 and 2015 were very rough years with our sweet boy Landon.<br />
(for those who haven't read here before, Landon was born with Angelman Syndrome)<br />
We were so worried about him and we had some decisions to make concerning<br />
his seizure medications. He was always sick and having so many seizures<br />
a day that it was affecting every aspect of our lives.<br />
We changed neurologists to one that was<br />
closer and she talked to us about adjusting his meds and adding a new<br />
drug to the many he was already taking. Adding yet another drug to the several<br />
he was on for his condition was hard decision for us. We worried if it would help<br />
or make things even worse than they were.<br />
The seizure med he is on and has been through most of his life was not<br />
doing the job anymore. Being on it for so many years had caused his<br />
platelet count to become seriously low at 56 and a suppressed immune system,<br />
so a decision had to be made and quick.<br />
We made the change and the past seven months have been so much better.<br />
We are hoping that his immune system and platelet count will continue to improve<br />
and our sweet Landon won't catch as many viruses.<br />
When he gets sick, he gets real sick!<br />
I really wanted to explain why the blog has suffered and why I haven't<br />
been good at keeping up with any of you.<br />
I find Instagram to be so much easier to post just one pic every other day or so,<br />
but I still love blogging too, just have had no time to do it.<br />
I haven't been keeping up with<br />
so many things around here, and now I have a lot of hope that<br />
things are going to be great.<br />
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An Annabelle hydrangea bloom and a few deep blue scabiosa.<br />
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So,<br />
do you remember that I have this little shack in the woods on some property<br />
we have in the mountains?<br />
I have posted about it<a href="https://laughingwithangels.blogspot.com/2014/09/off-beaten-path-to-shack-in-woods.html"> here</a> before, and one other time. I didn't bother<br />
looking up the link for that one because the photos are horrible quality. It's a difficult little<br />
place to photograph because of it's teeny size and poor lighting.<br />
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I liked the way I had it decorated, but I was in for a change since<br />
it was decorated in neutrals the same as my home.<br />
I felt like a little more color to the decor was in order for the little shack!<br />
It is painted barn red on the outside so it stands out better in the winter<br />
with all the snow we get up here.<br />
First I painted the walls a bright white<br />
so the colors would really pop, and then kept most of the yard sale<br />
furniture I already had up there. I don't decorate up there with<br />
anything 'cool' because this is miles from town and anyone could<br />
break in and take anything they wanted.<br />
My husband brought the bed home<br />
from the landfill years ago when they still allowed people to do that, and<br />
everything else is yard sale and thrift store stuff. Things have come and gone<br />
and made their way into my house or studio and now I have left the space a little less<br />
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Junehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283259375743586344noreply@blogger.com59tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981415164270569467.post-48057745350558589762016-07-09T16:51:00.003-06:002016-07-09T16:56:31.700-06:00A plethora of pinks <div style="text-align: center;">
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The peonies came and went and I already miss their pretty flouncy blooms!<br />
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They are such show-offs that I can't help but give them a lot of<br />
time in front of the camera.<br />
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They were everywhere!<br />
I savored them, I hoarded them, I photographed them<br />
and then finally when I had my full of them,<br />
I sold some of them.<br />
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white peonies in the background are Duchesse de Neumours (very fragrant)<br />
pink peonies Sarah Bernhardt (my favorite pink)<br />
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I can't remember the name of this pink peony, but it is a lovely one too,<br />
a little deeper pink than Sarah<br />
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I need to look up the name of this one.<br />
I love that it has this hint of yellow in the outer petals.<br />
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a pink that's blooming now in the garden is this pretty Strawberry foxglove<br />
I love this foxglove, because it is perennial and not biannual.<br />
The biannual don't work out here because I seem to always<br />
pull up the new seedlings when doing my first weeding and<br />
so I never see them again.<br />
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I also have an apricot and a yellow variety of the perennial foxglove.<br />
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My little grandson made this birdhouse for me as a cub scout project<br />
and I love it! I noticed while taking this photo that it has residents this year.<br />
Last year. no birds--could it have been the paint fumes???,<br />
because Ellis (the carpenter) and Maddie (the carpenter's cousin)<br />
used a whole quart of white paint on it : ) of course most of it was on them<br />
and the ground))<br />
It's my favorite birdhouse in the garden!<br />
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Out by the pasture fence we have a rose growing that I planted<br />
a few years ago called John Davis (one of the hardy Canadian roses).<br />
I LOVE this rose!<br />
The perfect pink, and I love it's rambling nature.<br />
It grows along the pole fence between the clothesline and pasture.<br />
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The old gate hanging here came from an elderly man's front walk that used to live here<br />
in town and when he passed away, a friend who had been care taking his place<br />
asked if I wanted the old gate before everything was torn down.<br />
Of course I did!<br />
I love these old gates.<br />
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Junehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283259375743586344noreply@blogger.com53tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981415164270569467.post-56399978707831204332016-06-09T13:56:00.004-06:002016-06-09T13:56:52.085-06:00my lilacs 2016<div style="text-align: center;">
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I have been putting this post off now for over a week because I knew<br />
how difficult it would be to narrow down which photos<br />
I wanted to share most.<br />
I take zillions of pictures of the lilacs, and I think it's because<br />
I want to hold onto them a little longer than they last in the garden.<br />
I have ten lilacs bushes planted here in the garden and I<br />
love each one for different reasons.<br />
In the photo below you will see three different varieties.<br />
The one on the bush is Charles Joly, the bluish one in the birdbath is<br />
President Lincoln and the white one is Avalanche.<br />
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(if you read here and would like to weigh in on the size of my photos I would love<br />
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The lilacs on the chair are Charles Joly and the one on the bush behind is Sensation.</div>
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Avalanche (below) is the most gorgeous and the most fragrant of the French white lilacs </div>
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This is more true to it's color in the bouquet below and when it is brought in from<br />
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It also wilts faster in a vase than some of my others.<br />
I think the little curly petals look pretty!<br />
In the photo below is a sensation bloom and the lilac in the<br />
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Sensation sure lives up to it's name.<br />
The downside to this lilac is that the scent is just not there.<br />
It has a very faint scent as lilacs go, so it's lucky it's so darn pretty!<br />
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This lilac is Beauty of Moscow and I LOVE this lilac!<br />
It's bloom is beautiful and it's scent is yummy.<br />
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The scent of Beauty of Moscow is not as<br />
overwhelming as the Avalanche, but still wonderful!<br />
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I really love this bloom!<br />
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In this tray I have Beauty of Moscow, Sensation and Charles Joly.<br />
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Love this little enamel cup of lilacs<br />
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Beauty of Moscow and Charles Joly<br />
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President Lincoln would win hands down!</div>
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The reason is the color of this bloom.</div>
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I don't know what there is about it, </div>
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I also love that it is loose and the bloom arches down so beautifully.</div>
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President Lincoln is very much like the President Grevy lilac.<br />
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On the sunny side of the bush, it's packed with blooms, and on the shady<br />
side under one of the crabapple trees they are smaller but still pretty.<br />
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The last lilac I will share in this post is Charles Joly.<br />
What a gorgeous guy he is!!! And the scent will totally<br />
make you loopy if out around it too long : )))).<br />
Seriously! It's extremely strong.<br />
It's a little different than the white Avalanche, but just as strong.<br />
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The bloom is jam-packed with florets and there is no way to see the<br />
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I am crazy over this lilac!<br />
I also have the Glory lilac right next to it and I can see very little difference<br />
in the bloom other than the florets on the Glory are larger and maybe a teeny bit<br />
magenta, yet open to the same color as Charles Joly.<br />
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I didn't get photos this year of the other varieties I have here in this garden.<br />
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a couple of years ago I shared a photo of all my lilac blooms and labeled them.<br />
I mixed up the Charles Joly with a dark purple Lilac that was un-named when I got it.<br />
I've been trying to locate the pic again so I can correct it so I'm not mis-leading anyone<br />
who maybe trying to find just the lilac they want.<br />
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But, you would be a winner with any one of these !<br />
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As you can see, the blooms open up to a lovely pink.</div>
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Once the blooms age they turn this beautiful soft pink.</div>
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Below are the blooms of the Canada Red Chokecherry trees. Almost impossible to photograph<br />
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You can see them in the in the foreground of the fifth photo from the top.<br />
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I hope to get back to share some of the amazing lilacs that are blooming right now</div>
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and in spite of the rain, have been holding up beautifully.</div>
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and soon I will be able to get around to see you all again.</div>
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Junehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283259375743586344noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981415164270569467.post-79136823525476604282016-04-26T21:40:00.000-06:002016-04-26T21:40:05.415-06:00The Centurion Crabapple tree<div style="text-align: center;">
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This tree has stolen my heart over the years, but I never would<br />
have thoughtit possible. It was such an ugly duckling when I<br />
first brought it home because it had been left in it's nursery pot<br />
too long and was very root bound. I bought it because it was<br />
cheap at $50.00, marked down from$100.00 and the only one I<br />
could afford at the time.It was the second tree (the first was a southwest<br />
border pine) I had bought for this garden and when I got it home it<br />
looked so lonesome sitting in it's place that the next day I went<br />
and bought another one just like it (root-bound at all) and planted it<br />
a few feet away in the lawn behind the house.<br />
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For the first five years they put on very little growth,<br />
the result of being in pots too small for the size of root ball.<br />
I almost had my husband pull them out several times, but thought<br />
I would give them one more year to show what they could do,<br />
and that went on year after year.<br />
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Slowly the tree was taking on a decent shape and growing well.<br />
Even in the beginning though, it would flower so abundantly that I decided<br />
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I am so glad I did!<br />
They have finally grown into beautiful trees and have totally<br />
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The bloom of this tree is so interesting in that it starts out this deep deep pink<br />
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so packed that you can hardly see the leaves.<br />
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Thank you Centurion for being so beautiful!<br />
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I think I got a good return on my $100 !<br />
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Don't you love it when an ugly duckling turns into a beautiful swan ?<br />
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I wanted to share some snaps around the studio today.<br />
It's spring and I need to do some cleaning and that means<br />
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some favorite lace pieces<br />
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a lovely postcard of a vintage wedding<br />
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crystals from an old chandelier I bought at a yard sale that I have yet to<br />
paint and find a place to hang<br />
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cluttered shelves of useful (and not so useful) things<br />
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baby bonnet on my favorite blue cabinet<br />
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Do you want to know the real reason I am cleaning it up in here?<br />
I asked Dale if he would build me some stairs to the loft and he went out to<br />
see what he would need to do and there was so much stuff in the way he just shut<br />
the door and came back into the house.<br />
Notice I didn't take any wide shots?<br />
Too ashamed to share the mess :))))<br />
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I decided to look into my files and find some of the photos of last years florals that<br />
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I have really enjoyed this winter and can you believe it (???),<br />
I'm just not ready to let go of it yet.<br />
A few short years ago you would have never heard anything like<br />
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It's funny how when you set your mind to change something about yourself,<br />
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One of those things was how I grumbled about winter from the middle of November<br />
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I think my dislike of the winters here<br />
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and we were dairy farmers. We lived down a long lane that would often<br />
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I finally told myself that I was going to change this and make friends<br />
with ol' man winter. I needed an attitude adjustment and would remind<br />
myself daily for awhile, that I really did want to<br />
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Guess what? It worked!<br />
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I can actually say that I looked forward to the past three winters<br />
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<br />Junehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283259375743586344noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981415164270569467.post-53404158397425070542016-02-13T21:35:00.001-07:002016-02-13T21:35:59.549-07:00Happy Valentines Day!<div style="text-align: center;">
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One of my favorite sewing projects is making<br />
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February is the perfect month to do it too.<br />
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When I was a little girl, making homemade Valentines was my<br />
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Nothing's changed...I still love it.<br />
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I wanted to share a little Valentine tree I decorated for the month of February.<br />
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I had saved one of the smaller trees (taller than me) that I had decorated for Christmas,<br />
knowing that it would be perfect to hang some of the leftover hearts I had been<br />
making heart garlands for a couple of my granddaughter's rooms.<br />
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Quite awhile ago, in fact, before Christmas, I won a wonderful giveaway by Jane from </div>
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<a href="http://blondiesjournals.blogspot.com/">Blondie's Journal</a>! I wanted to share it sooner, but had to find the photos I had taken of </div>
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her lovely presentation of it. The book, The Inspired Room by Melissa Michaels </div>
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was beautifully wrapped in Christmas paper and Jane had added some of the seeds she </div>
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for this thoughtful gift. Now I will have something to remind me of Jane growing</div>
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right her in Idaho! Jane and I have been blogging friends for years and I can't imagine </div>
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anyone not familiar with her blog, but if you're not, you should go see the</div>
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Birthday Party for her darling little granddaughter Elsie!</div>
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Junehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283259375743586344noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981415164270569467.post-69738248924322945872016-01-22T16:10:00.002-07:002016-01-22T16:36:45.380-07:00It's a pink kind of day<div style="text-align: center;">
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I went through some photos today that I can't remember posting before,<br />
and since it has been too overcast here to shoot something new,<br />
I thought I would post some of the pinks that were in some of the files.<br />
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I am finally forcing myself to paint the living room, kitchen, family room and<br />
a bedroom, so it will be awhile before I have much new to share here :)))<br />
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Oh, how I hate to paint!<br />
I have put it off for too long, and now it is a must.<br />
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Like it or not,<br />
I will be climbing up and down the ladder,<br />
(I always fall off it at least once in the process)<br />
sometimes even with a can in my hand))<br />
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dripping paint all over the place<br />
(because I am messy that way),<br />
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going to the store with paint in my hair,<br />
and probably in my painting clothes too,<br />
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living on smoothies and salads because I won't<br />
want to cook in all the chaos,<br />
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Oh yes,<br />
and there will be a little swearing going on as well.</div>
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Junehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283259375743586344noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981415164270569467.post-88505635517684385542015-12-24T13:51:00.000-07:002015-12-24T14:04:26.528-07:00On this Christmas Eve...<div style="text-align: center;">
On this Christmas Eve<br />
I want to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas!!!<br />
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I am grateful for the birth of Jesus Christ, the babe in the manger,<br />
my Redeemer and Savior of the world!<br />
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Peace that comes to our hearts this time of year and Joy<br />
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I'm finally getting around to posting my Christmas decorating for 2015.<br />
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If you remember, I kept it very simple last year with fir trees and greens,<br />
but this year I wanted to do the aspen trees again that I did the year before.<br />
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We have hundreds of them on our 40 acre place in Fishcreek.<br />
We are always having to thin them out of the fence lines, and so it's nice to be<br />
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I have missed blogging, and hope that I can get back into the swing of it again.<br />
It was a rough summer and fall here at the Stocking house due to illness, so I wasn't able<br />
to be on the computer very much.<br />
I had vertigo so bad that I wasn't able to do much of anything for months.<br />
I would be good for a few days and then it would hit and I would be sick again.<br />
I had visited two doctors locally, before going to Boise and seeing a specialist who<br />
put me through a few tests to rule out the more common reasons for vertigo and found that<br />
because of the congestion in my head from my summer and fall allergies, the pressure<br />
in my ears was all that it was. He put me on a couple of different meds<br />
to treat them and I have felt great since I saw him the first part of October.<br />
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Once I got my life back :)))) I could see how far I had fallen behind athome and got to<br />
work putting my very neglected garden to bed and cleaning this poor house.<br />
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So I am happy to say that I feel as though I could actually now spend some time<br />
blogging again. I have really missed visiting all of my favorite people and places<br />
and hope to catch up soon.<br />
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I do have more Christmas to share, but this post is a little heavy on photos,<br />
so I will post again soon.<br />
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Junehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283259375743586344noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981415164270569467.post-78183914709503366882015-11-03T17:32:00.001-07:002015-11-03T17:32:17.656-07:00finally a little Autumn in the garden...but first...<div style="text-align: center;">
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Yes, it is finally really fall here.<br />
In fact, today it snowed a little bit just to let us know it could.<br />
The warm weather stayed on forever and some days in October we even used<br />
our air conditioner because it got so warm in the house.<br />
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Not today!<br />
I have the wood stove burning and outside there is a skiff of snow on the grass<br />
and on the trees and shrubs because most still have their leaves.<br />
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I did get a few photos of the fall colors in the garden the other day and<br />
I will share some later in this post.<br />
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but first---<br />
I wanted to share more photos of the late garden roses on our front porch,<br />
as I did a little staging on the old garden table and in the swing.<br />
I took these in late September or early October.<br />
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I really like the color of the architectural piece from an old column<br />
with the Morden Blush and one of my late blooming garden phlox.<br />
I wish I could have seen the house that this piece came from because<br />
the color seems so unlikely for a house.I guess it could be from a place of business<br />
or something else entirely.<br />
It has to be original because it has flaked<br />
off in many places and there isn't any paint beneath it.<br />
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The hydrangeas have turned for another year and after the snow today, </div>
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I hope wherever you live in the world, that you are loving </div>
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the season you are in and because I feel so grateful</div>
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I think I'm doing pretty good at embracing it.</div>
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It may be some of the garden's last blooms, but certainly not it's last hurrah.<br />
The garden is just starting to turn it's fall colors, so I<br />
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For the most part, the roses are done and the phlox have finished, and<br />
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I guess there are a few lavender out blooming, but with everything turning<br />
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I also will be posting more roses on the porch that I took the day after<br />
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When I was done with the blooms in the house,<br />
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We have had perfect days for drying flowers outside and this orchard ladder<br />
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I love the House Hybrids scabiosa that are blooming<br />
sporadically in the beds still.<br />
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one of the varieties of phlox that bloom late<br />
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You can feel it in the air.<br />
Beautiful Autumn is on it's way bringing with it the last flush of roses.</div>
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Along with the roses come the late blooming phlox that I love so much.<br />
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One couldn't ask for deeper richer color that comes with the cooler weather.</div>
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roses-----I love 'em<br />
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so here are some of the bouquets I've been enjoying lately</div>
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pretty, </div>
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even when they are sitting in front of a very dirty kitchen window</div>
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Colette rose in a pitcher in the living room</div>
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lovey,<br />
especially when paired with a pot of Limelight hydrangeas<br />
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the rose bushes themselves have been badly chewed on by a lot of bugs this year,<br />
so they look pretty sad by the end of summer<br />
but they still produce enough blooms for beautiful bouquets<br />
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a little messy abandon going on in this part of the garden<br />
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but I kind of like messy!<br />
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