Wordless Wednesday...Pretty in Pink...

Enjoying Life!!! It's Summer....

As you all know summer is my most Favorite time of the year! I can't imagine why everyone wouldn't want to be outside as much as possible. I'm up at 6am walking in the yard with my first cup of coffee. Than sitting on the porch reading the paper and eating my breakfast, cereal with fresh blueberries. It is hard for me to come inside to clean house until dark... My Crocosmia 'Late Lucifer' is booming like crazy, it is Toms favorite and this year it is bigger than ever.

Those big red lush blooms are really going crazy...

Pink Mandavilla...

False Sunflower, Rough Heliopsis

Butterfly weed...

Not sure but they are beautiful, it came up from last year and I don't even remember planting them. Does that mean I have way to many flowers!!!LOL

One of my painted buckets...

My old chair on the pack patio full of flowers...

Lots of annuals...

Hope everyone has a great day outside, enjoy it to the max while it lasts!!!

Have a good one,

Lynn

The trip home....

"Wild Wonderful West Virginia"

That is what the sign says as you enter the beautiful state of "West Virginia"

The beach is a wonderful place to visit, but there is no place like Home. It was a long drive home, but I kept busy Knitting the hours away...

We stopped at roadside stops to stretch our legs and look at the thousands of Lily's in bloom...

The New River Gorge Bridge

This bridge was completed on October 22,1977. Each year on the third weekend in October they have Bridge Day. This is the only day that visitors may walk across the bridge. The event lures hundreds of parachutists, cheered on by thousands of spectators, to float the 876 foot drop to the river below. We took a walk down ALL those steps through the beautiful wooded area to see the grand view... Taking a little rest at the bottom before walking back UP all the steps to the top again... It was our cardio workout for the day. Actually it felt good after sitting in the car for so long!!! What a view of our beautiful state, it doesn't get much greener than this!!! Rolling Mountains,grand rivers and so many trees... This is a wonderfully colorful scene in the fall...

In the spring the Whitewater rafters are out in force on this river, big time... Time to go back up the steps, winding up through the woods, lush with Mountain Laural. At least it was cooler in the shade, because it was in the 90's on Saturday and humid!!!

Click on the picture to get the closeup..At the visitors center the grand flower beds were in full bloom with Liatrus and butterflies everywhere... Sun shinning,butterflies everywhere and flowers blooming everywhere!!!

What Could Be Better?
Well we are home safe and sound.... Back to reality...

I have been working in the flowerbeds like crazy I will post pictures tomorrow. I have so much in bloom I don't know where to start!!!

Have a Good One,

Lynn

Setting in the water on a beautiful afternoon with friends, what could be better. Look at that wonderfully clear sky, and calm water...

THEN...... WIPE-OUT..... LOL
Off to a great dinner out...

Lynn & Robin

Jean,Kyra & Judy


And Delicious Food...

Than we ended the evening back on the beach with fire works and a beautiful full moon over the water...

Have a good one,

Lynn

Fun At The Beach

Early morning at the beach, which is so not me at the beach. Usually I want to chill and sleep in at the beach. But being here with the girls, Jean and her sister Judy love to walk really early. This morning we left the house at 4:45am. It was still dark, but when the color started coming up it was beautiful. Look at the sun on the water, absolutely magnificent!!! This was dinner tonight at one of their favorite restaurants...

Robin and Judy...

Jean, Kyra and Me...

Kyra (Jeans grand daughter) loves feeding the birds and they really love her...

Up close and beautiful...

This is the harbor about 10 blocks down where I went to check on boat rentals, these pictures are for you Tom...

This is right across the street from our house, so beautiful....

All the girls at 5:30 am, I was still even in my Jammie's!!!

This is the front of our little cottage on the beach.... We love to sit on the porch...

This is the walk to the beach....
We make this trip quite a few times a day....

We are having a wonderfully relaxing week, a much needed week.

Have a good one,

Lynn

A Beach Vacation

A beautiful morning at the beach!!! I am at Carolina Beach, NC with some wonderful friends... It's a girls week at the beach...
Walking at the beach at 5:30 the sky is so beautiful. I am really going to try and walk every morning. I'm not really into walking, even though I know I should. But at the beach you just want to walk.
The weather so far is beautiful and the water feels like bath water. I'm looking forward to just sitting on the beach today and just relaxing, not a care in the world....
I missed getting up this morning and walking through the flower beds... My hubby Tom has promised to water all the flowers! I'm sure he will, BUT I just hope he keeps them alive for a week. Walking back and forth from the water barrels to water everything really takes some time. I bet he will cheat and use the hose!!!LOL
HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL YOU DADS OUT THERE!!!

Have a good one,
Lynn

Pictures-Pictures and more Pictures...

Have I ever told you how much I LOVE SUMMER!!! You will never hear me complain about heat!!! I love it... and everything that comes along with it!!! Of course the Grounds Keeper is exhausted after a long day in the yard....

We wait all winter for these days to come and when they finally do... you just don't want to come inside... I am up and out at 6am... Coffee in my hand just walking around looking at everything and how it has grown overnight. I just don't want to miss a thing. All the new babies I grew from seeds this spring inside, now getting bigger and bigger with each day!!!

So lets take a walk around a few of the beds in full bloom....

"CLICK ON ANY PICTURE TO GET A LARGER VIEW"...

Mallow...

Helipsos-Summer Sun Sunflower



Lemon Drops (I think)




Comfrey...

Lily...

Primrose...

Masses of Primrose, have taken most of it out around the house already this spring....

Foxglove-Digitalis

Snapdragons........

The "Secret Garden" and my Wonderful new gate..... My husband Tom built this for me and I LOVE IT!!!

He put so much time in this and it sure shows. It was everything I wanted and MORE!!!

My new wave petunias... There were only 10 seeds in this packet but it was worth it... This is one plant and it will only get bigger...

Clematis.... Growing up the new gate...

Calendula.......

Lots of them Mass planted by the birdbath....

Hens and Chickens...

The back side of the Secret Garden...

Inside this pot hanging from the tree is a 1 gallon milk jug with a tiny pin hole in one corner, filled with water it just keeps dripping into the saucer beneath to keep my birdies watered and cool all summer....

This is the side view into the Secret Garden, there are two paths going through it....

This is the back path.....

This is the back view of the Secret Garden from the Bird Garden...

This is the Bird Garden / Herb Garden / Butterfly Garden in the back yard...

Here are two of the tiny sunflowers....

The topiary pots filled with herbs, and Wooly Thyme on the ground...

Do you see the concrete Cat peeking out from behind the Sedum???

Lavender Blooming.....

The neighbors old plow, looking quite beautiful among the herbs.....

The tiny plants on the front edge are Bush Basil, they will get so big and

beautiful, we will be eating pesto all summer.....

Not sure exactly what this bush is but the birds love it....

Lots of berrys to eat...

" Miss Petunia"

And of course "Miss Petunia" in her glory... Decked out in Red-White and Blue this year...

There are lots of vines at her base this year just ready to start growing up her skirt and blooming....

She is just a Good Ol Girl.... Ready for summer......

Or should I say a Big Ol Girl... LOL

Here's a shot of the back bed and some of the things growing here.....
See how many you can name???

I can't beleive how things are blooming so early this year, it must be all the snow we had this winter. This Butterfly Weed shouldn't be blooming for another month here...

My Nicotina that comes back every year in this spot I love their night blooming color....

The back porch.... A new pot, I can't wait until the petunias start spilling out of it... Mandevilla..
The Tipsy Pots are starting to overflow like they should....The little white flower spilling out of the blue pot is one of my favorites,just so sweet and airy. It is called Diamond Frost, it mounds and blooms until frost... My kind of flower....

By the front porch steps, Galardia...

Night Blooming Jasman....

The Cone Flowers

Burgandy Baby Nicotina.... I had no idea it would get this big!

Well it is time to get back in the yard. I'll give you another tour in a few days as new bloomers come on....



Have a Great Day,

Lynn