FOTD – June 28 – Daylilies A day of rain and all the flowers are blooming. This is the time for daylilies. Usually, daylilies are the most powerful flower in the garden, but the Queen Anne’s lace that we allowed… Read More ›
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DAYLILIES ARE HERE
FOTD – June 16 – Our First Daylily Yesterday, while I was outside feeding birds and watering flowers, I saw the very first blooming daylily. There are hundreds more buds out back and out front. And the hedge roses are… Read More ›
A TIME FOR EVERY THING
ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:A time to be born, and a time to die;A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;A time to kill, and… Read More ›
MACROS FROM THE INDOOR GARDEN
FOTD – April 20 – Macros from the Indoor Garden It was warm and now it’s cold. Below freezing at night again. Rain in the morning, sun in midday, but it never got warm even with the sun out. But, on… Read More ›
BLOOMING AT HOME
FOTD – April 18 – Orchids, Anthurium, Cactus and Easter Lilies For a while, nothing — except the anthurium — was blooming. Now, everything is blooming. Well, almost everything. Two of the orchids are thinking about blooming, but haven’t gotten there… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 56 – ORCHIDS & A LILY
Completely different, but done on the same day.
A LOOK AT THE WHOLE GARDEN
FOTD – APRIL 15 – THE GARDEN INSIDE Owen brought me a new mini-orchid which is lovely. I think that’s it for flowers at that location. I did my best to try to take a decent shot of the whole… Read More ›
ORCHIDS AND AN EASTER LILY
FOTD – April 12 – ORCHIDS WITH A SIDE OF EASTER LILY It was great to have a nice day without any rain and with sunshine through most of it. As evening was coming round, it started to cool down and… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 54 – EASTER LILY
I’m taking a breather from trying to do things I’m not good at and drawing flowers. I’m good at flowers. While not my most ambitious project, flowers — anything botanical, really — are satisfying. The pretty much always come out… Read More ›
EASTER LILIES A’BLOOMING
FOTD – April 7 – Easter Lilies or Lilium Longiflorum Lilium longiflorum, often called the Easter lily, is a plant which originated in Taiwan and Ryukyu Islands. This one, whatever you want to call it, is beautiful. Today it had… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 53 – FLOWERS
Now that I am not in a brace and my hand doesn’t hurt, I did a bit of drawing. Nothing really special, just orchids and the Easter lily. I was just glad to really have my hand functional again. There… Read More ›
ORCHIDS AND AN EASTER LILY
FOTD – April 6 – Orchids and an Easter Lily Garry brought me an Easter lily today. It’s a beauty with one big flower and five more buds — one of which looks like it will open very soon, maybe… Read More ›
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