Color!

I love bright colors! These are so pretty I hesitate to cut them up! (Green ones don't like me.)

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Road Trip

The day was sensational! Warm! Clear! Sunny! The ride to the orchard and to the produce stand was so enjoyable and successful that I'm almost beside myself.  Be alerted, you might want to sit a while to view the pictures I took. Be alerted! THERE ARE MANY HERE and... I took even MORE!!

I start out with the feral black cat that often fishes at the edge of our lake. I have actually seen it leap into the water to catch a fish. And then the flock of turkeys flew away before I could catch them and there must have been a couple of dozen!

Please don't leave, it gets better. We are headed to Jayne's Orchards!

Stick with me, please! We then stopped at La Rue's produce stand on the way home; bought some sweet corn, tomatoes and tri-colored sweet peppers not shown here.

Home Sweet SWEET home!  And the fun begins. Did I mention I missed getting pictures of the two deer that crossed the road in front of us?

Darling Henry has been demoted to a lower level.

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Season's Ending

I love the little Portulaca plants I bought this year and how well they developed. They needed little watering and the assorted flowers were pleasing. I think (and hope) they are self-seeding for another year of prettiness. They needed very little care.

May 19

May 31

Aug 18

Sep 14

And, of course, the sedum are turning pink and falling over. I meant to trim them down before they budded so they wouldn't get top heavy, and only snipped a few tops off. It's my fault and I'll just have to do better next year. They really are beautiful, however.

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Sundial Mix Portulaca

Medium flowers on durable, heat and drought tolerant plants. For garden or pots.  Plant in full sun 18"-24" apart. Grows up to 4 inches tall.

Peach Pastry Perfect

I took my peach freezer jam, spread it onto a pastry sheet, rolled it up and baked it. WOW! Sooooo GOOD! (Soooo bad too!)

Since the middle of the "loaf" wasn't baked as thoroughly as I like, I sliced it and re-baked the slices. Now it is PERFECT!!

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I love to have experiments turn out well.

James Bomb

He is so beautiful with his new attire that I'm NOT ABLE to choose my favorite picture so be aware: This is a James BOMB!

James Marshall Folkner, Spiritual Guardian of Cabin Tranquillity

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