Lily of the Valley

We went from beautiful spring weather in Iowa, to hotter than blazes in Iowa, the past two days it has been in the 90s with humidity as high, with a heat index of over 100................this picture was taken a couple of weeks ago.

Camera Critter Saturday

Our Orioles are back!  They do love their grape jelly.

Clematis In Bloom

My Clematis are starting to bloom.............one of my favorite flowers.............

Rosie and the Clematis

This is Rosie showing her sensitve side, taking time to smell the roses or in this case the Clematis.

Here is the same photo that I turned into a "painting".

First Rose of Summer of 2010

Yeah!!!  Our 1st rose is blooming.............seems unusually early this year.   But I'm not complaining.  The weather has been great since  the 3 inches of rain last week, I have finished most of my spring planting.   Our grandsons were here for the weekend, Jacob helped me plant my herb bed and AJ helped with my very very large (took over 50# of potting soil) pot of  petunias.  Had a great weekend.    The past two evenings after work I have watered and planted some delphiniums and heuchera coral bells, I have become addicted to all the new varieties with their leaves of many colors.

Purple Haze

Riot of Color

Happy Monday One and All!

It is back to work for me :(.

I wish I could say the above photo was taken in my garden but it was taken at a local garden center this past Saturday AM, it was in the high 30s, with 30 miles an hour, I totally froze while I made the rounds of the garden shops but none were busy so I did not have to fight any crowds.  Saturday night we had an unusually late frost, I did not have any annuals out so my garden survived the whole ordeal, the forecast had been for lows in the mid 20s, thankfully the weatherman was wrong and it only got down to 33.