Baby, Its Cold Outside!

Soooo beee it!!!

My town set an all time record low today of minus 34, now that is chilly! We had a white knuckled drive to the VA Hospital in Iowa City (had to be there at 8:30 AM), the drive through Cedar Rapids was a nightmare, multiple accidents on their elevated stretch of interstate. Traffic was at a crawl, same thing on the way home but not quite as many pile ups. It was awful, our usual omelet at Perkins didn't even perk me up. And my usual stop at Michaels in Cedar Rapids was out of the question, I was just eager to get home. Home Sweet Home!

Good night to stay in and look at seed catalogs, of which I have dozens to look at. I have only looked at one so far Select Seeds, they are offering a discount if an order is placed by 2/20/09, I always order from them so will get my order together soon.

Bees, Cosmos

The weather has been cool and dreary. I would have loved to stay home this AM, sleep in, do some therapy baking and cooking, continue my Jeffrey Deaver book but it was off to work I went.

I took these photos early Saturday AM, the bee must have been chilled because he barely moved, I think the washed out color gives the photo some what of a dreamy effect.

Friday the 13th

Since there is not much to take pictures of in my garden right now except depressing frozen foliage I thought I would share a couple of bug pictures, I like to take bug and butterfly pictures. These were taken last fall the grasshopper and the bee were both on my Autumn Joy Sedum or Live Forever as some people call it.

Our grandsons are going to be with us this weekend so I hope it is nice enough for some adventure walks or at least to get outside.

Autum Joy Sedum with bonnets

This is what my Sedum looked like this weekend after the snow. Autumn Joy Sedums are one of my favorite flowers mostly because the butterflies and bees love them, on a beautiful fall day they will be covered with butterflies and bees. An old friend who is no longer living gave me my first Sedums or Live Forevers as she called them over 30 years ago. The original plant is still in the original spot that I planted the first little cutting.