Today in the Garden

I missed my Blooming Wednesday yesterday since it was raining

so I thought I would share some pictures from the garden this morning.

Who doesn't love lavender?

Burgundy blanket flower in the background.

A nearly black hollyhock and a

"Cherry Bells" Bellflower (warning, this will take over your garden).

“He who shall hurt the little wren,

Shall never be beloved by men.”

~William Blake

This pincushion flower is so nice, I had to show it twice.

I love how much is going on in this one flower!

Click on it for a larger view.

I ♥ Flowers!

Jenny Wren

After hearing the baby wrens for over a week now, I finally saw them peek their little heads out of the birdhouse. Aren't they just the sweetest things?



"I'm feeling a bit peckish! Where's my breakfast?"


"Hey, me too. Where's Mom with our grub?"


"Keep your feathers on, I'm right here!"


"Whoops, I dropped it. Why is this crazy lady standing so close to my house with that big black thing in her hands? She's making me nervous!"


"Open wide, breakfast is served!"


"Now that's service!"

Halloween Spirit

I suppose my three most recent Sleepy Hollow pieces have put me in the Halloween spirit! I just finished a very cool little mirror with a black cat and witch. Thought I would share - it's currently on Ebay for a 3 day auction.




I'm happy to report that my little wren has convinced (I hope, fingers crossed) his lady friend to nest in my white birdhouse. Here he is peeping out...



I'm also currently in love with all the gorgeous lilies blooming all around the yard! They seem to have come back bigger and better than last year.



And I've relocated one of the baby groundhogs. I hope she caught up with her mother in the park!
Until next time...

Funny, very funny!

Mother Nature laughed at me today. She made me pull her finger. She lifted up her great green skirt and mooned me. She is a tricky one and quite the prankster.
I was really busy today setting up for our garage sale so I didn't get a chance to walk around my gardens much. When I was sitting in my dining room trying to relax after a very long day of hard work, I looked out the window and saw not one but TWO BABY GROUNDHOGS completely helping themselves to my garden's bounty. They didn't even have the nerve to run and hide when I took their picture.

This is what it looks like when Mother Nature laughs at you...






But of course she delights me on a daily basis with all she has given me. Singing wrens, pretty blue borage flowers, dainty Scottish Harebells and delicate mushrooms that appeared as if by magic over night. I should feel blessed with all the beauty in my garden. Perhaps I should just adopt these two rascally, orphaned ground squirrels. What do you think, time to get a fence for my veggies?




We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ~Francis Bacon






To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. ~Buddha

My friend the wren...

I have the cutest little wren in my garden singing his heart out all day. I just learned that they make a bunch of nests to woo their female and she gets to choose which one she wants. This little guy has been filling this white birdhouse up for the last 2 springs but his lady friend never chooses it to have her babies. I was happy I was able to get a few photos of him today - one in flight, one with a bug and one singing. I learned that wrens aren't very interested in feeders but they are really good to have in your yard because they love to catch insects.





Also saw this gorgeous black dragonfly/damsel fly type critter. So glad I was able to take a photo!



And I know you would enjoy seeing that I captured my most recent nemesis - groundhog #2. This one was much smaller than the last, must be the female. She moved in two weeks after I caught the last one and has since eaten two bachelor's buttons, sugar baby watermelon plant, gladiolas, several lettuce plants, a hot pepper plant, 3 broccoli plants, a baby blueberry bush and the tops all almost all my zinnias. Of course the rabbit in the last post may have been her partner in crime. We shall see!