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Cats ~ Dogs ~ Horses ~ PhotographyRoses and Lilacshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121676379580186489noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641867746157798839.post-72312711262123272632016-03-27T12:12:00.000-05:002016-03-27T12:12:20.536-05:00Bless us one and all on this Easter Sunday 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Love this natural bench. I wish I would have worked with my trees when I moved here. Interesting things like this are pretty easy to create.</div>
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More pine cones.</div>
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These magnolia buds reminded me of pussy willows.</div>
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Tempest posing on an exposed rock.</div>
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Spruce cones.</div>
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The sun has moved far enough north to give me sunsets right outside my windows. This one looks like a forest fire. </div>
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<br />Roses and Lilacshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121676379580186489noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641867746157798839.post-3395310072236779642016-01-25T14:14:00.001-06:002016-01-25T14:14:44.125-06:00Reviewing "A String of Beads" by Thomas Perry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All of Thomas Perry's bestselling thrillers have been exciting reads but I like the Jane Whitefield novels best. Jane describes herself as a guide. What she means is that she <i>guides</i> people in terrible trouble out of their current lives and into new ones. Women whose husbands are trying to kill them; men who have run afoul of the mafia; people wrongly convicted of crimes; these are the people Jane guides into new lives. <br />
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Jane Whitefield is perhaps one of the best female characters in modern fiction. She is half Seneca Indian with very strong ties to her native roots. In this newest book of the series, Jane is called on to guide her childhood friend who is being set up to take the blame for a murder he didn't commit. <br />
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Jane is a master at spiriting people out of dangerous situations and moving them into new locations with new identities and a new hope for a safe future. If you have never read a Jane Whitefield novel, I would recommend starting with one of the earlier books, <u> A String of Beads</u> is number nine in the series. <br />
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Jane Whitefield earlier books: <u>Vanishing Act</u>, <u>Dance for the Dead</u>, <u>Shadow Woman</u>. All available on amazon for as little as $ .01 plus shipping ($3.99) for hardcover used in good condition. <br />
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The story of an amazing young woman who finds herself in a low paying, dead end job with the responsibility of her entire extended, dysfunctional family squarely on her shoulders. Joy Mangano is supporting her daughter, her mother, her father, her grandmother and her ex-husband all in a tiny run down house that is falling apart. In spite of, or maybe because of the demands of her helpless family, Joy claws her way to the top of a multi-million dollar empire through the strength of her personality and her imagination. And she achieves this all while never sacrificing her charm, humor and humanity. This is a fantastic story but I thought the script could have been much, much better. Instead of watching this in the theater, I wish I would have waited for it to come out in DVD. Roses and Lilacshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121676379580186489noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641867746157798839.post-46692935685838611562016-01-18T11:03:00.000-06:002016-01-18T11:03:25.121-06:00Reviewing the novel "Ghostman" by Roger Hobbs<div class="MsoNormal">
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make their escape, a sniper ambushes them from the shadows of the casino parking
ramp. One of the badly wounded robbers
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Halfway through the book and enjoying it very much. There is some (not a lot) of graphic violence
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Roses and Lilacshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121676379580186489noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641867746157798839.post-45572045250841608882015-12-30T14:46:00.003-06:002015-12-30T14:46:50.178-06:00Midway through the 2015 holiday season<div style="text-align: center;">
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Santa had an especially stressful Christmas this year. All the rain, lack of snow and, of course, more children than ever kept the poor old guy working nonstop for months. The first of January, he decided to take a little relaxing vacation fishing alone in the wilderness. I happened to catch these photos of him as he canoed down the creek trailing his fishing lure. </div>
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I love winter mornings in my kitchen, sipping tea, eating a muffin and watching the birds at the feeders. We have several inches of sleet on the ground so the birds are desperate to find food. The peanut feeders attract some of my favorite varieties. I have these feeders up close to the windows so I can see them clearly.</div>
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This is by far the best bird watching investment I've ever made. I don't plug a lot of items, but this Brome 1024 feeder has gone far above and beyond all my expectations. I bought this feeder about 10 years ago and it has spent every day of those 10 years outside, summer and winter. It has a lifetime warranty but I've never had to replace a broken or damaged part. The feeder has been squirrel proof mounted on my post with a baffle. It has never broken or cracked altho it has blown down several times in very strong winds. A three quart fill up lasts all day. I was tired of replacing feeders that fell apart in one season or less. This feeder has solved that problem at less than $10 a year. It is the only feeder I've tried that attracts cardinals as well as finches, woodpeckers and occasionally the blue jays. Severson Dells a local conservation site, has these feeders in use year round.</div>
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The days after Christmas are always a bit of a let down for me. I'm taking down the Santas, the wreaths, the garlands and little trees that I put up with such love and care a few weeks ago. Wishing you all a happy New Year and hoping you stay cheerful through the dark cold days of January. </div>
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Roses and Lilacshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121676379580186489noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641867746157798839.post-48178217405351431222015-11-30T17:32:00.000-06:002015-11-30T18:23:59.950-06:00By chance the sun peeks out beyond the clouds. But the low temperatures have numbed my brain. Losing what wit I have to deal with crowds. My best excuse will be that there is rain. ~ Audrey Christophersen<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i>Gone are all autumnal hues and mere</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i> </i></span><br />
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Rayless moon peers at the bleak world</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i>Stand palsied blades of grass and some roses shrunk</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i>Grey sunrise, days in blanket of haze cold and stern</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i>Memories of summer, spring's visions</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";"> Spent time with family members I don't see nearly often enough. We celebrated at my sister's house so I avoided some of the cleaning and decorating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">This year my Christmas cactus has switched holidays. It’s blooming over Thanksgiving. </span></div>
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Since my last post we have had our first snowfall of the year. From green grass, blooming flowers and fifty degree temps to 10 inches of blowing show and 14 degrees. It's dark at 5:30 in the afternoon and dawn is just spreading its morning light at 6:30. </div>
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Went to a movie couple Saturdays ago. It was the first movie I've seen this year that I really liked. De Niro is great. Just a happy movie with none of the usual misery that passes for relationships, no shootings, explosions, murders... Go if you get a chance.</div>
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Fall is my favorite season. This wasn't the best year for fall color. It was so dry, many of the leaves went from green to gone. Still I love: Crisp, cool weather; Gold and red leaves; My favorite sweaters; Hot chocolate in the morning; Apple cider donuts; Bugs are gone; Long walks down country lanes.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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Hard freeze last night. Sad to see the flowers die back for the season. I won't complain. Some people have 5" of snow and other people have waist high mud flowing through their homes and burying their cars. <br />
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I went out before the freeze and gathered armloads of blooms and shoved them into vases. A couple more days of summer indoors.<br />
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Good old iris Immortality looked fantastic this fall.</div>
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Roses and Lilacshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121676379580186489noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641867746157798839.post-42021094835881989542015-10-03T13:06:00.000-05:002015-10-03T13:06:46.517-05:00How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass. All the warm wakeful August night. - Thomas Gunn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The garden is winding down. Another week or two and we will see a killing frost. I love the cool, dry air of autumn. I will miss the fresh tomatoes and sweet corn but I'm not sad about the end of the season for flower gardening. I'm ready for a change. </div>
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These are my first Magic Lilies. There are so many affectionate names for this plant. Surprise, Magic, Resurrection, and I'm sure others as well... I found these at the Klehm plant swap this spring. They were a mass of broken, limp foliage that did not look too promising. Anyway, I caged the foliage to keep it up off the ground and it remained greenish for several weeks before it disappeared. I had forgotten them completely when suddenly like magic they reappeared. </div>
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The new varieties of phlox are healthy and long blooming. I love the impact those big, bright clusters make in my garden.</div>
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Roses and Lilacshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121676379580186489noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641867746157798839.post-84517542306238211862015-09-24T12:47:00.000-05:002015-09-24T12:47:36.196-05:00In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban<br />
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Griffith Buck rose Country Dancer. Began blooming in May and still producing beautifully, </div>
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In June, Annabelle hydrangea covers itself in big white clusters that remain on the bush throughout the winter.</div>
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Geranium Rosanne blooming from early May until a hard freeze puts it to sleep for the winter. This plant is simply too good to be true. It will cover the ground below taller plants or scramble up roses like a vine. The bluish color is perfect with most garden plants. It tolerates some drought in blazing sun or partial shade. No pests or disease. Every year I add more Rosanne plants because they are as close to perfect as a plant can get. </div>
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Finally seeing some bumble bees, mostly on the Walkers Low, coneflowers, and the May Night. The record rainfalls that we had in April, May and June are no doubt partially responsible for the delay in establishing their numbers. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of honey bees I've seen this year and that is very troubling. </div>
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<i>Best Wishes to our friend Angel at </i> <a href="ahttp://beadedtail.blogspot.com/">http://beadedtail.blogspot.com/</a> <i>who is having a birthday. Angel likes to have fun with wrapping paper too. Angel's sister looks a lot like my friend Ricochet.</i></div>
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and the plant is making a recovery. So now the question is, did the cat
fur repel the rabbit or maybe the bunny just hasn't taken that same path since
his first visit to the plant. Luckily, mallows are tough, fast growing
plants so it seems this one might return to bloom IF the bunny is indeed
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graceful, green fountain even before the blooms appear. In my
garden daylilies have no pests, no disease, and are very forgiving of both dry
and rainy conditions and a wide variety of soil types. Established plants
have a long bloom period even though each bloom only lasts for one day.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ordered the fashionable bug jacket below from Amazon and wear it everyday to plant, weed and water. My friend from the <a href="http://ramblingwoods.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #351c75;">Rambling Woods</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span>blog suggested it. It works with some additions but the arm seam is already giving way. Just a little uncomfortable but not nearly as uncomfortable as mosquito bites, west nile fever, or spray on Deet. If anyone decides to order one, get at least one size larger because the netting should not lay against the skin. Hat not included, mittens removable. I hope no one drops by while I'm outside wearing it. </span></div>
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And instantly follows the rattling thunder,<br />
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remember in my last post wishing for some windy days to dry things out and
clear the mosquitoes away for a while. Be careful what you wish for.
Woke up to 68-mph wind gusts, vivid flashes outside the window and
a constant rumbling. The electrical power was fading out and coming back
which is somehow more alarming than total blackout.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">No real damage done here but a lot of tall plants are leaning at ugly angles. The bird feeder post is down and the peanut feeder seems to have blown away. I was happy to see none of the bird houses fell since many are occupied with babies still in the nests. There are sticks and little limbs all over the yard which won't be much fun to pick up. Even the roof is littered with twigs and torn leaves. I'm very grateful that we didn't receive more damage.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: lime;">What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: lime;"> Only two things that money can't buy </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: lime;">That's true love and home grown tomatoes.</span></i></b></div>
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This is a very old purple clematis that has been blooming for several weeks. </div>
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Yarrow added this spring has been blooming since the first of May. I love hard working plants like this.</div>
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The ferns love this rain. The north yard looks like a tropical jungle. I know, this is the mosquito coast but I love ferns. <br />
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My go to tall filler plant. They never stop blooming and their wiry stems shrug off drought, too much rain, wind and even german shepherds crashing over them.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">On Saturday mornings we lay o</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">n the flower garden bedspread and watch Cesar Millan on TV. It's currently our favorite show, comedy, drama, action, adventure, and a handsome cast of four legged characters. There is always a happy ending, we can't ask for more than that.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My start came from my father's garden. This Canadian ginger is happy growing in dark, dry places where other plants have failed me. There are many varieties, the American ginger has smaller leaves and the growth is not as dense. It would be nice to add the American variety to my garden but I can't find it locally. The Japanese have ginger societies like we have hosta societies here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My Japanese tree lilac is a magnate for pollinating insects. All those dark specks are some type of pollinating bee or wasp. Sometimes, butterflies will also visit the blooms and in the winter, cardinals eat the seeds. The fragrance is intense, I like it although some people don't. This tree is just outside my bedroom window so the fragrance perfumes the bedroom on June evenings.</span></div>
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The peonies follow the iris and usually mark the Memorial
Day weekend. This year they are over<br />
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Griffin Buck's Country Dancer is, in my opinion, one of the finest roses for the upper midwest. Absolutely hardy with no cane damage from our sub zero winters. CD doesn't seem to suffer from blackspot or other fungal diseases. This year it's a 7 foot tall climber completely covered in pink roses. Most years it doesn't get this tall but it has outdone itself this spring.</div>
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Above is an heirloom gallica rose. Absolutely winter hardy and disease free, but gallicas have the annoying habit of suckering all over the garden. It would be best controlled with a lawn mower. They have no disease and no fragrance but they do have that wonderful cabbage rose shape. </div>
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Northern Illinois has been in some degree of drought for several years. Of the last ten years, three have been severe droughts. My garden is changing. Except for new plants and transplants, I don't water. I've lost some plants but most survive. Empty spots are now being filled with prairie plants or drought tolerant plants. Annuals in pots do get watered and tomatoes are pampered but the rest of the garden must adjust to a natural water supply. These drought years have been very stressful for me, I worry about loosing trees and shrubs as well as garden perennials. The garden looked dry and sear most summers. Now I realize we all must adjust to the "new" weather patterns. Some states, California to name the worst, are running out of water to drink. Things might get much worse for all of us. <br />
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Now comes the spring of 2015 which is bringing a much improved rain pattern. It's been many years since we've had a wetter or a cooler spring. The garden and I love this weather. The forecasters say we may have an El Nino in the making to thank for this, so bless you little child and please come back often.</div>
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Spent the day mulching, transplanting and potting annuals. Took a break and sat during a brief moment of sunshine between the gathering storm clouds. I watch the birds. Always busy moving, gathering, defending, building. Do you ever wonder if they are happy or just going about their lives on a pre-programed auto pilot. We will never know if they are enjoying the spring as much as we are. </div>
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We've been blessed with more rain than usual this spring. Beautiful storm clouds roll across the field just north of the house.</div>
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Roses and Lilacshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121676379580186489noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641867746157798839.post-2423223992043849772015-06-02T08:48:00.000-05:002015-06-02T08:48:26.542-05:00The garden with its little gate of green, Invites you to enter, and view mysteries unseen, Its vine laden bowers and overhanging trees, The air filled with sweetness, the hum of the bees, The flagged walks with Iris galore, Of most beautiful coloring, unknown before, Pink, white, purple, yellow, azure blue, Mixed and mingled of every hue, You come away wondering, can more beauty be seen Than in the garden with its little gate of green. ~ Winstead.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This post celebrates the bearded iris. They are an
incredible plant, a contradiction in every way. Their blooms are like the
finest silk, almost transparent and easily damaged. The plant itself is
cast iron. It withstands abuse, can be dug and left unplanted for weeks, even months. It ignores bitter cold winters, hot dry
summers, withstands drought and monsoon rains. It tolerates neglect,
crowding by other plants, weeds and grasses. Iris are often found at abandoned
farm and home sites long after other plants have given up and died.
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A little iris history: The iris is named for the mythological
Greek goddess of the rainbow. The oldest known painting of an iris
dates back to 2100 B.C. <st1:place w:st="on">Crete</st1:place>.</span><span style="background: white; color: #474026; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The iris form inspired the French fleur de
lys which was the symbol on the French flag until the revolution and is still
the symbol on the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:state u1:st="on">Quebec</st1:state></st1:state></st1:place><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>flag. Iris grow anywhere in North America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Driving the rural roads of northern <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Illinois</st1:state></st1:place>, I
hardly ever find an old farmhouse that does not have a bed of this beloved plant in the
dooryard. Modern families also love the iris and find a place for a collection of plants somewhere in their yards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Apparently the bearded iris hybridize easily and now can be found
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">to carry them over their</span></i></div>
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Spent a day at the Pec Thing, a wonderful outdoor flea market that features a lot of garden art. Love my garden art pig and wish I would have brought home the rooster, the kitty and maybe a cow or dog. </div>
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It's been so cold I have been carrying my annuals in and out of the garage every night. Hopefully we are past overnight frosts, so now it's time to get my big pots of annuals planted. Here are some of the annuals I've chosen to use this summer. Now I just have to find the right combinations.</div>
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Love the calibrachoas in a hanging basket purchased already made up.</div>
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Zinnias are the center flower in two of my large pots. Gotta love 'em, they bloom tirelessly all summer. I have a yellow one too but it's a little under the weather today so I'll show it in a few weeks. </div>
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The above petunia is my favorite and it shows up in several pots and in the garden. </div>
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Nicotiana,and verbena are waiting to fill empty spots.</div>
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This variegated sedum behaves oddly in my garden. It doesn't expand from its original size many years ago. Usually plants expand or die, this does neither. </div>
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Last night I dreamed it was spring. I awoke to 40-degree temperatures and a pewter sky. Rain oozed under my coat collar and down my neck as I filled the bird feeders. I shall go back to bed and hope the spring dream returns.<br />
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<b>From the shade Garden</b></h3>
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White Nancy grows beneath the hosta and really brightens up dark places.</div>
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Hostas planted years ago have grown into large clumps.</div>
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Allium gone wild, self seeded everywhere...lawn, shade garden, sun gardens, among the daylilies and peonies. I had hopes it would bloom with the peonies but that looks unlikely. </div>
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Indigo buntings and gold finches enjoy the thistle feeders. </div>
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Unknown. If anyone has a positive ID for this bird, please let me know.</div>
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<b>Blooming now</b></h3>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> Amidst a mess of really sloppy foliage the two foot tall camassia stalks lay down and then bend to reach sunward. </span><br />
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Immortality always blooms ahead of the other iris then blooms again in late summer. </div>
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Roses and Lilacshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121676379580186489noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641867746157798839.post-51558815121572559602015-05-15T12:58:00.000-05:002015-05-15T12:58:27.514-05:00"Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point." - Henry Mitchell, Gardening Is a Long Road, 1998<div style="text-align: center;">
We have had some nice rains and cooler temps lately. Always happy to see that combination. I'm inspired to transplant lots of things in this perfect weather. Usually, I'm a timid transplanter because a hot dry spell makes it labor intensive with potting, watering and maybe artificial shading. </div>
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Below are some photos taken at the feeders. These photos are among my worst partly because they were taken beyond the limits of my telephoto lens and mostly because I'm just not as good with the camera as I once was. </div>
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I stopped by Birds Unlimited yesterday and noticed their feeders looked like objects of art. They had Broom feeders like mine but theirs were shiny and new. I left the store with only one peanut feeder for the bluejays. This spring I have been happy with the numbers and variety of birds at my feeders. Several migrants stopped by on their journey north. White crowned sparrows and white throated sparrows are only seen here in the spring and early winter. A rose breasted grossbeak came to eat, they go south for the winter but sometimes nest in northern Illinois in summer. I also saw a Baltimore oriole at the suet feeder yesterday. I hope he decides to nest nearby. Would love to get a photo of him. </div>
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This peony flowered tulip was planted last fall. It is a late blooming variety that extends the tulip season.</div>
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From the shade garden beneath the lilac hedge, the blue bells are blooming. </div>
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This little bridge is just down the hill from my house. There used to be a road from the north that passed my house and went on south to connect to the county highway. This bridge was part of that road. Sometime in the 60's a bypass around Rockford was built and my little lane was cut off from the north. Now the bridge is used only by farm equipment to reach the fields and by me. </div>
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One liquid ribbon of nature sandwiched between two farm fields.</div>
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Foxy, one of my rambling partners. Always eager to walk with me and always willing to let me choose the path. </div>
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