Showing posts with label finches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finches. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Final Preparations.


Two days left until 100 or more people parade through our yard on the Lawrence Food Garden Tour. I'm really excited and nervous of course. We've worked really hard on planting and weeding and making sure everything looks spiffy. The rest has been left up to Mother Nature. Since this is our first year to be on the tour it's hard to know how the morning will go. I'm still thinking about making a little map of the garden so people know exactly what I've planted. I think there will be a lot of "why did you do it this way?" or "why did you plant that there?". It will be fun to have conversations with people and find out how they do it in their gardens. I still have so much to learn.


I love the way that Cleome's bloom. So special.












These little baby finches hatched at the end of May. They look like little furry bugs. They don't even have eyes yet!


This is 1 week later! They've grown so much that they barely fit in the nest!

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Ahhh, Glorious Nature.


We had a few thunderstorms last week and then it turned really hot this weekend. I think the rain/heat combo made the yard explode with growth. Things are popping up and budding out like crazy. I woke up Sunday morning to probably 50 blooms on my clematis. Gorgeous!!! This is the time of year when I'm just blown away by how so incredibly AWEsome nature is. It's so neat to watch seedlings break through the hard earth, plants that looked crispy enough to think dead come fully back to life and buds of beautiful flowers unfurl and bloom into brilliantly shaped and colored flowers. We are beginning to eat out of the garden, the wooded area behind the house is filling in and there is a pair of finches building a nest in the fern on the front deck. So happy...


Bought some brightly colored annuals for the back patio.




The Tennyson tree is so happy to be back outside.


Can you see Chris in the background working on yet another project? He's making a cool gate to finish off the fence. I can't wait to see what he comes up with!




Can you believe how gorgeous!?!




Lettuce.


Comfrey.


Broccoli.


Fennel.


Radish.


Peony. Any day now!


Our new wrap-around couch for the front deck! Now all I have to do it make cushions which will require me to learn how to use my sewing machine. Chris purposefully made the couch long enough so he could sleep on it. He loves sleeping outside.


Front deck.


Bella Kitty.