Whiter Shade of Pale

Well, our freeze warning for Friday night turned out to be not really a freeze. The temps got down to 31 for an hour or so. It didn't kill a thing not even the mosquitoes, it may have slowed them down a bit. As I worked outside today for quite awhile and was only bitten a few times. I dug some peonies that I wanted to move and divided more iris. Dumped more pots of annuals. I bought 3 big pots of mums for my fall display, my hubby is going to get the bale of hay tomorrow. I also bought a big pot of asters.

Yesterday morning we were walking the dogs early, it was very foggy and as the sun was coming up it was shinning through the fog, it was very halloweeny (is that a word?) anyway it was very cool.

Mellow Yellow

The weather is beautiful, sunny, and cool, absolutely perfect except for the blood thirsty mosquitoes. I am hoping for a nice Sunday so I can dig some peonies and finish up dividing my iris, it may be a bit late for the iris but I think they will do OK.

Roses of Reiman Gardens

We finally managed to get to Reiman Gardens last Friday. I love going there! The butterfly house and the gardens are a very pleasant place to spend some time. For those of you familiar with Reiman's magazines (Taste of Home, Birds and Blooms, Country and many more), Ray Reiman graduated from Iowa State University, he decided to donate a large sum of money to create the gardens and butterfly house. The butterfly house is as nice as the one at Calloway Gardens in Georgia. It is a wonderful place to take pictures.

I have lots of other pictures also :).

Summer Roses

My roses are still going strong.

The Heat is Still ON

OK, I am really tired of this heat, have I said that before?? Yes I have. The seed pods of butterfly weeds are so interesting, don't you think? My hardy hibiscus are still going strong, if they would only stand up taller, my black sedum is starting to flower.

Flowers in Paint Shop Pro

I have been playing in Paint Shop Pro again, such a pleasant way to spend some time :).

Heat, Humidity and Mosquitoes

We had a triple headed beast today! Hot and humid again and now we have swarms and swarms of blood thirsty mosquitoes. I am ready for fall!

We went out fishing this AM, which was fun, but were back home by noon or so because it was hot, the phone was ringing when I walked in the door, it was my daughter in law asking to stop by with our grandsons, so I was happy that we came home when we did, what a nice surprise. We did catch some nice crappies.