I love your blog award!!!

This award was given to me last week by two special blogging friends now it is time for for me to pass it on!

This first blog has been a favorite for about a year now, Nina at Nature remains just has a way with words that makes you feel like where ever she is you are right there with her!!! I love to read her writtings. Last year when I traveled each day with the 6th grade class, English Class was my favorite, I made sure they all knew about this blog so they could read all the expressive language she used in her blog. The kids loved it!!!

Second Cathy At Tolentreasures has a wonderful blog, she reminds me of me at that age. Tole Painting like crazy on anything that didn't move and some that did, sewing, knitting, gardening and anything else we could get into... all while having a family and just enjoying LIFE!!! I enjoy reading about all that she does. Great Job on a Blog Well Done...


I could name so many more, I love reading every ones blogs all different, that is what live is all about everyone different and beautiful in their own ways!!!


Have a good One,
Lynn

My new Award...

It has been a wonderful week, I have been honored twice this week with this beautiful award!

First from a fantastic blogger at A Hocking Hill's Garden. Lona has a great blog with the most beautiful roses and wonderful gardens. I do not have the ability to grow roses the way she does, they are gorgeous. Her photography is amazing, I love dropping by to check out what she has new each week blooming. Thank You so much for this honor.....

Second I received this from one of my first real blogging friends Balisha at Never Enough Time

I have been visiting her blog for a long time. She is a true friend, we have so much in common we love so many of the same things. I love to read all her poems that she writes about Everything!!!

Almost every day she has something new to enjoy!!! Thank You for this wonderful award!!!

Now it is my turn to pass this one on....

But you will have to wait a few days sorry, but after a 12 hour day at both jobs that I truly love I am just too tired tonight to type. Check back in a few days...

Love you all!!!

Lynn

May Blooms...

This weekend was so beautiful, we spent all day Saturday and Sunday putting out mulch, 6 scoops of mulch. We only have one more bed to do and we will be finished. The rain has stopped us probably for the week. Thursday is our only day this week for a chance of a little sun. It is suppose to rain all weekend. Yuck!!! So I snuck outside for a few shots of some May blooms in between raindrops....
For those of you that follow, Miss Petunia is back up and ready for all the vining flowers to start growing up her skirt. She will have a big basket of flowers in her hands. She has Irish Moss growing on top her head. It will have little white flowers all summer. I have planted candy corn vine, hyacentbean vine, hummingbird vine at her base. She will be blooming like crazy this summer...
This is my herb/bird/butterfly garden. It belonged to my Mother-in-law and when she got ill I took it over for her. That is her house in the background that is in my back yard... This is my second year planting herbs here and they are really looking nice and I have started quite a collection... Here is the Candy Corn vine...

The Clematis In the Secret Garden is starting to vine up the new arbor and really blooming...

Look what a beautiful Face the Columbine has....

This one was new last year and I have No Idea what it is, it is only about 6 inches tall but has spread beautifully and one of the first to bloom this year. If anyone knows what it is please let me know...

Speedwell was one of the first things I planted in the perennial garden in 1995 it is still beautiful in the spring...

Pink Deadnettle, I had no idea until today it was an herb... I need to move a piece to the herb garden. It was used to check bleeding and treatment of menstrual problems and bleeding after childbirth.The Lavenders first blooms....

Honeysuckle is going crazy and the butterflies flock to it. I remember as a child there was a wall of it along the street in front of my house. I loved to watch the butterflies all day long...

White Deadnettle, I love how it looks tucked under plants, the leaves are great...

I Love spring and summer it is so much fun watching everything grow and bloom!!!

Have A Good One,

Lynn

New flowers for 2010

I thought I would show you some of the new plants I have this year... (these aren't my flowers I just pulled them up off the Internet) Mine are still just babies but they are doing really in the beds already this year...
I love little tiny things and this small sedum is great with all my hens and chickens in the Secret Garden... This is brand new for me this year it is Trailing Vinca I hope mine turns out this grand...

This is a perennial Trailing Dusty Miller, I placed it by the mailboxes hoping it will trail down over the wall...

Copper Sedge, my daughter tells me it looks dead, but I love the copper color it gives next to my front steps... It is also a Perennial...

This one is Mexican De Sol a small sunflower.

I will post a few more in a couple of days... I have lots of new things this year, It is an experimental year for me, I just wanted something different and I hope they work out...


Have a Good One,

Lynn

New Secret Garden Arbor...

My new arbor is almost done... I love it! My husband is amazing ...

Now all I have to do is find the hinges and latch I like!!! Easier said than done!

About month ago we were talking about the warn out arbor in my Secret Garden. It needed replaced, but I couldn't find anything I liked. Tom said show me what you want, I went to the computer and showed him about 5 different ones I liked and what I liked about each of them. Next thing I knew he had one drawn up. It was like magic. Everything I wanted in an arbor. I used my money I won in the cooking contests and away we went. Here's Tom holding the gate in place so I can see what it is going to look like done. He knows I'm a visual person. The sides have the same diamond shape on them too...

I want wrought iron for the hinges and latch, I just have to find some, the arbor is so beautiful I just don't want to just put anything on it. Well I better hit the Internet, come back in a few days and see what I've found!!!

Have a Good One,
Lynn

Wonderful Family!!!

We spent this morning with my Mother-in-Law at the nursing home. She has to be the sweetest woman I have ever met. We have lived next door to her for 32 years and it has always been wonderful. I have so many wonderful memories over the years. The first year we were married I taught her how to drive, I was only 19 at the time and fearless... They told me no one could teach her how to drive... Well that's all anyone had to say! Three months later she had her own car and was driving everywhere!!! And Loving it!!!
One time she asked me to go buy her a pair of new tennis shoes, I asked her what size and she told me 2 1/2, and I said ok really what size do you need??? I didn't think anyone could wear that small of a shoe... I don't think she was ever 5 feet tall , but that is what she told everyone!

This is my mother-in law and Tom my husband and his sister Patti. I just took this picture last Friday since it turned out so good I'm going to have it printed and framed. We were all on our way to the Funeral Home because one of her best friends that lived right across the street from her had died.. Everyone at the nursing home told her how great she looked and asked where she was going? Well she told them the Funeral Home, " But I AM Coming back!!!" she said...

Today the head nurse was there because she is having trouble eating so she told her she could just eat a little every hour or two. When they came in to give her, her meds that she hates to take, the nurse asked what she wanted to take them with to make them taste better, she said Bud Lite! That nurse said OK what ever you want!!! So we are taking a little cooler to keep them in! Sometimes Life is Good, she gave that nurse such a Big Hug!!!

She is very ill with cancer, but what a sense of humor she has. She is not letting it get her down, I just thank God she is in no pain, and they are taking such great care of her...

I was blessed with the Greatest of IN-LAWS....

Lil I Love You!!!