Blooms and a big spider

Good afternoon Folks ~ It is Tuesday afternoon, 87 degrees but feels like it is 93 with the humidity. There is somewhat of a breeze though, and we’ve had cloud cover off and on all day which really help.

I worked outside this morning doing a little trimming, weeding and cleaning up a couple of piles of trimmings from a week or so ago. I procrastinated, heat, etc., etc.  Now it’s done, then I swept the patio and the sidewalks and it looks nice again.  Well, except for the brown and dying plants and grass here and there.  We are desperately in need of rain down here.  We keep having it predicted and get nothing.

I’ve grouped all of my potted plants in a couple of areas so that I can hand water them and I hand water the rest to keep from being stressed or dying. No using the sprinkler around here, not since we lost our well a little over a year ago now. So I do what I can to keep my plants alive, and my mood lifted. Water is nourishment to plant life, plants are nourishment to human life. Not just as in being edible, but in their beauty and their scents.

Here’s a little funny story from the other day when I was working on my blog template.  I wanted to see if I had any pictures to upload, so took the card reader, stuck it into the USB port and nothing happened. I thought ‘what now’.  I took it back out, nothing.  I called DH in a little later and told him and he asks is the card in the reader, I said yes, well, DUH, no it wasn’t.  Good grief!  I was so frazzled from hours of reading html code, etc. I wasn’t even thinking straight. Sheesh!  Throughout the evening we would look at each other and laugh. Laughter is good medicine.

Moral: Try to stop and think before speaking or you may be saying the wrong thing.

Here is our Queen Crepe.  She’s just off the kitchen entry in her own little bed with some other plants at her base. St. Francis is in the background in my shed garden.

The other day I was out front in the main garden when DH came to me and said there is a really big spider you might want to get a picture of.  I grabbed the camera and followed him out back.  The guy was up high and I didn’t get very good shots but here he/she is. UGH!  I do NOT like spiders, especially big ones.

Here is another shot of Chrysler Imperial.

I will end this post with some sweet pictures of Kathleen, a hybrid musk.

I want to thank all of you for your kind comments and words of encouragement on my new blog look.