Our lives are brought together by the things we have in common. We share friendships that have no boundaries. We see things that are truly unique, and things that are the same. Here we will knit together the strands we share...
It has been the best peony year ever! I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that we are moving this summer. They must have overheard my husband and I talking and decided to perform well so they would be dug up and taken with me - like I don't have enought OTHER stuff to do besides dig up a bunch of plants and then RE-PLANT them 5 miles away. Oh well...gotta do it.
I think I have posted before when we did the "Home of the giant..." that my home town has a huge pumpkin fesival in the fall that draws huge crowds and media attention. Well we are a lil pumpkin crazy there so why not paint the water tower to look like the very gourd that brings such wonderful revenue to our little town?
It's not very tall, so I didn't find it until I was right up on it. So here you go! A nice view of my town watertower's undercarriage. 
When I first started this project, this was a subject I really wanted to do... I have been a sorta lame host, falling off the wagon in recent months, but I am lovin the way you all have picked up the camera and run with it!! Do you have one of these??
Here is my happy spot...
Clockwise from the onions, potatoes, sunflowers, cabbage, broccoli and raspberries....
from the other corner, black raspberries, tomatoes, pinto beans, and poles ready for some green beans too...
Well it was growing good til they died...yup I took this a while ago I just haven't posted it yet, and now I need to get down and take pix of the tiger lillies that have taken their place....I did not plant these, which is why they are doing so well. We have been in our house almost 2 years, and they just keep coming back and I love it. If I had anything to do with these I am sure they would be dead by now. So I am going to enjoy them as long as I can.
I will take a picture of the new flowers and add later.
We're growing a sweet pea in our house. Here it is in November:
And check her out now!
Hi! Thought it was about time I got back here! :)
Petunia's still alive!! The wave variety!
Waving again!
My own container creation! Geranium in the middle, Ivy, etc. It's still doing well!
Everyone laughs at me as I'm known to have a black thumb...well...almost a month later and all of these are hanging in there!
I don't have room for a garden (rental), but I do have a landing on my back steps that gets plenty o'sunlight.
So I planted a pot garden. I've got tomatoes, sunflowers, nastursiums, a mother's day marigold, onions, oregano and now my favorite one--a potato.
I "rooted" a Yukon Gold potato from a funky tater we had leftover from a bag we bought at the grocery store.
This was my potato the Friday of Memorial Day weekend:
Here it is yesterday (a week later):
I just got done watering my pot garden and I swear that potato has gotten bigger from that picture yesterday!
We went to visit the Statue of Liberty yesterday and waiting in the loooong line in Battery Park, I saw this guy.
What made it even more of a mixed message was the police officer that walked right by him and didn't say anything!!!
As an aside, I felt awful for that big old dog. It was about 90 degrees and that thing looked so uncomfortable in all that fur!
Is it a new kind of toy?
(if you aren't sure what it is, email me and I'll tell ya! funnipharm AT Gmail dot com)
This is a view out the front door, right after a rain with cherry blossoms in full bloom.
I am headed out of town tomorrow, so I thought I'd leave a new idea before I go. I call it "Mixed Messages." Think signage gone awry, billboards that have been messed with, or just public messages you find amusing. I hope you guys are into it!
I would measure my elf, but I think he ran off with my tape measure.
This is the window where my computer sits. That's a Bayberry bush and if I had been on the ball a week ago and snapped this photo, you could have seen it in riotous bloom, covered in tiny, sweet smelling white flowers. It's nice to sit here, the bush provides shade and fun for the birds. But I would rather have this view.
This is out my sunroom window, looking onto my bird feeding stations, lots of green and a nice quiet spot for sitting, relaxing and dozing off. The Hawthorn tree on the right is in full bloom; natures big joke I like to call it. Blooms beautifully but smells like old laundry.
And for my inaugural post...
Hello Suburbia!
Through the screen you can see the tiny tree in our front yard (because most full grown trees were plowed down to build this subdivision), the across the street neighbor's fuel efficient compact car, our traditional mailbox (sadly, the flag is not up), and a glimpse of my irises. I planted two bulbs two years ago and they have exploded out control.
