Latest project and blooms

Good afternoon Friends ~ What a gray, very windy, look like rain day it has been since we got up this morning. We’ve only had a few sprinkles so far and over 3” of rain is predicted over the next few days. We could use the rain. Tomorrow is supposed to be a pretty wet day. This is how it has looked all day.

Well, today is Saturday, and I didn’t have to work like I usually do. I worked Wed. through Fri, and my boss went in today to unload the truck from the Round Top, TX show.

This morning DH and I worked on the picket fencing by the Gypsy Shed. Yesterday morning before work, we worked on the gate. We ‘curbside shopped’ this picket fencing in March of last year. Someone had cut their fencing into 20-32 inch sections when they threw it out. I was so excited when I saw this, as I love picket fencing. I had originally thought I would put it around the main garden, but there really wouldn’t have been enough for that. So earlier this year, we put up the now painted section. DH put the ball finial on top of the 4x4 post and I love it. I took this picture this morning because I thought it was going to pour all day, so wanted to get a picture of our forward progress.

We decided to do more work since it wasn’t raining, just very, very windy. Two more 4x4 posts went into the ground, fence sections were screwed to 2x4’s and two more finials were placed on the 4x4 posts. I love it and look forward to working this area as weather permits. I don’t work again until Thursday, but with rain predicted every day I think, I might not get a lot done. I need to scrub down the fencing with TSP before I paint.

It is a real joy to find stuff curbside, then put it to original use, or reuse/repurpose. We are thankful for all the ‘freebies’ we have been blessed with.

This picture was taken the other morning from inside the scullery. I was washing dishes and saw this blue jay enjoying the bath, (which needs to be cleaned out) and ran for the camera. He flew off after I took the picture.

Mexican petunia.

My favorite passion flower vine. I just love these colors and this vine is growing next to the Gypsy shed, which will have purple and orange colors on the outside.

This is Mexican sage. I love the velvety green/gray leaves and the sweet flowers.

This is a little still life in my seating area at the back of the main garden.

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Mostly Roses :-)

Hello Folks ~ It is Saturday morning in my part of the world. Today is the last day of work for me this week. Next week, I’ll only be working one day, next Saturday, so have a week off to putter around home.

This morning after I got the coffee going in our stainless steel percolator coffee pot on the stove, I filled up the bread machine pan with ingredients for a loaf of bread and that is now baking. It should be done around 9:30, about 1 1/2 hours from now. Pretty soon it will start smelling delicious in here.

Thursday morning I took some pictures when I realized Chrysler Imperial had two blooms. I had smelled a wonderful rose scent the day before and thought it was coming from all of the blooms of Cocktail, not even seeing the one opened Chrysler Imperial bloom. That scent is really an old rose scent, to me it’s what you think of when you see a rose and how it should smell.

Phyllis Bide

Louis Philippe or the Florida Cracker Rose

Smith’s Parish ~ a Bermuda rose

Maggie

Vincent Godsiff

Texas Sage

A sweet African violet my friend Nanci gave me. Her mother passed away recently and Nanci knows my love of flowers so brought this from her mother’s home in Vermont. I do hope I can keep it alive. It is in a north facing window. If any of you have good tips for growing these lovely indoor plants please let me know. I will greatly appreciate it.

That’s it for now. It’s time to get us some breakfast, then I need to gear up for work, getting my mind right. The past few days there has been someone there doing some work on pieces and she is what I call a psychic vampire, and it wears me out being around her. The past two nights I’ve gone to bed between 7:30-8 p.m. and slept like a log, waking up around 6. May I feel the peace and love of God surrounding me today, (something she doesn’t want to hear even the slightest suggestion about at all. I've known her for years and she's been in my prayers, it's all I can do). She is spoiled and seeks attention constantly. Fortunately for me, this has not been an every day occurrence for the past 13 years. I would have quit long ago.

May I see the good in this day, may I be nice and not nasty. May I keep my mouth shut when I might feel like saying things I shouldn’t.

Hope you all have a great weekend, with NO psychic vampires invading your space.

P.S. I just went in to the scullery and smelled the delicious aroma of bread baking and looked out the window and saw flowers and butterflies and felt God's love. That makes me feel better ready to face the day. I'm not perfect by any means and need God's grace each and every day, all day long.

Still more cools.

Goodness, it's looking like I have a lot more cool colors that I thought.
I love them.

Below are Vanda orchids, that grow wild around the property.
I wish all orchids were that hardy.

This beauty is a Ground Orchid.
I hope it's as hardy as the Vanda's above.

This is an unknown ground cover.

Texas Sage

This is Plumbago.

Still a few more to come.

FlowerLady