In the last six months I have been watching one of my favorite blogs Lavender Hill Studio
Penny is a mosaic artist, and a wonderful one... I love looking at her work. I decided I just had to try it for myself. So I ordered the how to video she offers and the tool to cut the glass. She does such beautiful work...
This my first real piece that I'm going to give to a wonderful garden friend... I sure hope she likes it... With some flowers right out of the garden, it really looks like summer now...

Here is another piece of the china, just like the one I used for the pot....

I am having so much fun playing with this new craft. I plan on doing a few more this summer.

You are going to have to go check out Lavender Hill Studio
She is the best!!!

While I was snapping pictures tonight mommy bird was fussing at me because she wanted back in her nest...


Have A Good One,

Lynn

Veterans Square.. Our Town

For the last couple years my husband and I have taken on the task of planting at the Veterans Square in our town as our Master Gardener Project..
Last year we planted all annuals that I had grown. This year we decided to plant a few more perennials. So I started to dig up a lot of my things and the neighbors things and did a little begging at the University Greenhouse. But we finally got enough to plant, and we got it planted. It will take a few weeks before it starts looking good, we gave it all a little Miracle Grow hoping that would give it a little kick start... This is the biggest bed, but it does have some shrubs...

There are two small planter boxes coming down the steps...

This one we put in about 60 Marigolds and one Seedum..

Lots of Nicatina and petunias in the big bed...

A closer shot of the Marigold Bed...

The big bed of Nicatina and Petunias...

This one is mostly Campanula Korean Bell Flowers and some Hosta and Marigolds...

This one has a lot of shade so it got the most Hostas, some Snapdragons and Statis
. We also popped in a few Salvia's here and there....

The best thing about all of the beds are that they are RAISED BEDS...

Last but not least My Hummingbird on the front porch, I finally had a camera in my hand when she showed up... LOL

Have a good one,

Lynn

What can I call a day like today?

I got up grabbed my coffee and went to the couch to read the morning paper. I heard on the news the night before that a child was killed in an ATV accident on Sunday. It was up on the other side of the county so I just supposed I didn't know them. But when I picked up the paper I read the news that it was a 17 year old girl that just lived 3 miles away, and the sister of one of my former students. It is so hard to hear that such a vibrant child could be gone...

Then within the hour I found out that the neighbor 2 doors over had died at the age of 85 this morning. I have lived in this neighborhood almost my entire life, I went to school with all of his children. The street he lived on is the same one as my mother-in-law. Almost everyone on that street are about the same age. It is so sad to see them go one at a time in the last few years.

So I tried to fill my day by keeping busy... I went to pick up my new glasses, then I packed up my garden hose and watering cans and we went to the Veterans Square downtown to water, where on Sunday my husband and I planted all the flowers there. Something we have done for 2 years now as our volunteer project for the Master Gardner's. Seeing all the flowers doing great made me smile and that was good. We came home and spent some time in the garden tying up the tomatoes that really needed it. Since we haven't been able to get into the wet garden for a week. Finally we took one dog at a time to give them their baths, and clipped their nails. That always makes us laugh because we don't know who gets the wettest!!! LOL But they all three look great, and we are warn out, so I think it is time for bed. I will pray for a better day tomorrow! Then the strength to visit the families at the funeral home...

I almost missed Mosaic Monday...

Have a Great Evening Everyone!!! We had a whole entire day (so far) without rain!!!

Lynn

Bloomers.....

Big storms last night(1 1/2 inches of rain) but it was a beautiful day. Just hot and humid... It is suppose to rain again tonight. We have been having unbelievably thunder and lightning storms.

Everything is growing like crazy, I thought when I put Miss Petunia up I would have to water her everyday, but I have only watered her a few times. She is starting to bloom... Click on pictures to enlarge...
Her basket is really doing well...

Her hair is blooming like crazy.... I have never grown Irish Moss but it looked interesting when I was looking for something for hair. It is so cute, it is starting to grow down around her head. Pretty soon I will have to trim her bangs!!! LOL

Her little flowered head is wonderful...

These are berries on one of the bushed in the Bird/Herb Garden. The birds just love them and I can see why they look so luscious....

This was my big purchase today at Cracker Barrel. It has 4 bird houses on it and cute tin roofs. The hubby must have liked it too because he put it up as soon as I got home.... LOL

I keep adding a few things to my new table. I picked up this cute dove yesterday for a whopping $3.99. I love a deal!!!

Claudia was upset yesterday because she didn't get her picture on the blog with the other two. So here she is watching me work in the front flower bed...

This Clematis is my husbands favorite this year, it is at the entrance of the Secret Garden...

This pot of petunias and coleus have gone crazy already this summer...

The double petunias are the ones my daughter bought me seeds for at Christmas. They are doing great...

Well that is what is blooming at my house today, I'll show you more later.

By the way have any of you had trouble clicking and dragging pictures on here. I can not drag them where I want them. I have been having to put the pictures on and then writing about them. They were always easy to move before. I have no idea how to fix it or even if I can...

Have A Good One, "HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL YOU DADS!!!"

Lynn

It's a really WET Spring...

Here are a few bloomers I snapped today... Trailing Zinnias

Yellow Loosestrife

Red Impatients

Butterfly weed

Butterfly weed close up...

It is too late and I just can't think, I'm sure you know this one!!! LOL

Lily

The Pearl Summer Sun Sunflower

The mind is blank... Imagine that... But it was Grandma's I have had it for 30 years. Got it Feaverfew...

Here are the big babies on the swing right beside me this morning while it was raining and lots of thunder and lightning..

At least Keegan was trying to sleep a little. But it was funny Mia was panting so much his head was bobbing up and down...

Claudia was on the other chair sound asleep, she could care less about the storm...

It has been raining like crazy, but thank goodness it has been mostly in the early mornings or late night. Wed. night it rained 1.8 inches, lots of thunder and lighting. DID I HEAR IT??? NOOO

LOL...

I didn't even have to go to work this morning, but it really cleared up and we even got the yard mowed. I love the yard right ofter it's mowed.

The rain is really bringing up the garden, of course the weeds to, but the hubby did get in it on Sunday and it looks great now.

I sat on the porch tonight and just watched the hummingbirds buzzing around the feeders. They are just too cute.

Have A Good One,

Lynn

Prickett's Fort State Park...

I had a very enjoyable evening at Pricketts Fort State Park
tonight. Our Master Gardner meeting was held here tonight. We had a wonderful covered dish dinner. I love getting together with everyone this time of year, talking about everything that is going on in your gardens, flowerbeds and all the different projects we are working on this time of the year.

The original Constructed Fort was built in 1774.

This is the Job Prickett House built in 1859.

This is the Outdoor Theater at Pricketts Fort, it is the place both my daughters and I were in the Play "Pricketts Fort an American Frontier Musical"

From 1990 to 1997 we spent our summers at play practice then weeks of play nights. With a cast of about 50, year after year we made many new friends. A lot of entire families were in the play each year. My youngest was 7 years old when we started and my oldest was 10. Never mind how old I was!! LOL

Our Master Gardner's do all the flowerbeds here...

This is one of the new ones this year...

The pictures do not do them justice. They have done such a wonderful job planting the beds...

Of course it rained tonight and the water drops just quench the plants...

Have A Good One...

Lynn