Sunday, June 11, 2023

How Does Your Garden Grow?



Murky sun through the haze and smoke of the Canadian wildfires


the light from the sky was very disconcerting (to me)


Tom Turkey 1


Tom Turkey 2. We've seen herds of females with their young roam through the yard, but have never seen any males. These dudes were big.


Quill was very interested


Queen Anne's Lace


Wood Aster that looks like a little daisy


The smoke cleared later in the week. Rain moved in, and on the way out to dinner with friends, a beautiful rainbow (through the car's dirty windshield)


Tiny Bunny. One from Clover's line.


Himself planted some sunflowers


The mountain laurel made a comeback this year.


No blight this year.

How does you garden grow?



16 comments:

  1. One day I want to have a turkey like it is in movies!
    Quill sure steals the show 😻
    My poppies seem to grow and Ingo made a cake from some of my (my!!) wood-strawberries (he does not understand what they mean to me. I eat them plain and think of my Mum).

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    1. That is such a wonderful memory of your mutti

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  2. I don't think I've ever seen mountain laurel! It's quite lovely!

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    1. They are really beautiful. When we first moved there, they just lined the woods on the street. They start out pink and then fade to white

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  3. I love mountain laurel. Out behind where I grew up there was a lot of it. At this time of year it was so pretty. You're lucky to have the bush. Glad the smoke cleared out too. It doesn't look like you'd want to be out breathing a lot of it. Enjoy this beautiful day.

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    1. We're enjoying the sunroom after a week of cold and rain

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  4. Your smoky place really is disconcerting I hope you are now mostly rid of the smoke since the fires are starting to be contained.

    Wild turkeys are amazing. People hunted them in southeast KS because they were overtaking everything.

    Lovely flowers. The squirrels dug up and ate all my sunflower seeds before they could take root! Hope himself has better luck.

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    1. The smoke will be backing in today. Rain tomorrow night is supposed to finally wash it out

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  5. Forgot to mention that I agree with Iris. Quill steals the show.

    When does your daughter arrive?

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    1. She arrived late Friday night. So good to have all my babies under the same roof.

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  6. Turkeys!!! Cool! I hope my patio garden survives my absence. If we can just make it til July... Blogger isn't recognizing me on my phone. -Nita

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  7. Quill is showing a lot of interest in that turkey! Valerie

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    1. From that far away the turkey looked like his size 😺

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  8. Looks like Quill enjoyed the scenery. Lovely flowers!

    Yes, it was pretty bad in the air mid-week here as well. Never seen anything like it! Finally clearing up.

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    1. Quill loves looking out the windows and watching whatever is on CAT-TV

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