April 7, 2018 at 7:39 am (postaday, Surprises)
Tags: Fridays, Garden, happiness, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
A plant self thought was dead turns out to have a few living sprouts:
Variegated Abutilon, 4 April 2018
Love the dappled leaves. The mother plant is dead for sure. Then, a week ago, while clearing away dead twigs, self found definite signs of life, about two feet away.
Happiness!
Here’s another WordPress post on SMILE:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
April 4, 2018 at 6:43 pm (Flowers, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: Garden, happiness, inspiration, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, seasons, websites, Wordpress
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Here are three things that made self smile this week:
Her backyard iris: They started blooming about two weeks ago.
Backyard Iris: 4 April 2018
This little lady in her side yard:
Self is trying to train her ivy to go UP the fence!
A new welcome mat! YAY! Spring is sprung!
New Season, New Welcome Mat!
Here are other WordPress reasons to SMILE:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
April 1, 2018 at 8:18 pm (Flowers, Holidays, Links, Sundays, Surprises)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, clematis, Garden, happiness, Redwood City
Self is taking inspiration from Cee Neuner, who posts a Flower of the Day.
On the front porch, her clematis montana rubens just started blooming. Most of the year, it looks like a dead twig. But, suddenly, a few days ago, self saw flowers!
Clematis montana rubens: Started blooming a few days ago
HAPPY EASTER!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
March 31, 2018 at 8:57 pm (Flowers, Holidays, Links, Surprises)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, flower photography, Garden, Redwood City, Saturday, websites
More irises began blooming in the side yard today:
Blooming Today: Saturday, 31 March 2018
Which photo do you prefer, the blurry or the sharp?
For more gorgeous flowers, here’s a link to Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
March 31, 2018 at 4:39 am (Flowers, Links, Surprises)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Fridays, Garden, Redwood City
It has been much too hectic a year, even though it’s only March.
Today self drove home to Redwood City from Mendocino and it took her five hours.
She was feeling very tetchy — until she stepped into her backyard and saw that a few iris had started blooming.
There is no pattern to self’s gardening. She just plants bulbs here and there, wherever she feels like it.
Today, she saw that half a dozen spectacular (huge) iris are just unfurling by her kitchen door. In the side yard (where she took this picture), these three blooming iris are the first, but there’s almost a dozen more getting ready, close by.
Cee Neuner’s photography blog is an endless source of inspiration. Not only does she have the Fun Foto Challenge, she also has “Flower of the Day”
She tried getting close-ups of the irises, but the background was off.
Side Yard, Friday, 30 March 2018
Here are the side yard irises from another angle, farther away.
The backyard looks a little wild, but she likes it that way. She planted so many different things, without much forethought, just squeezing everything together. There’s actually a mature rose bush tucked right in the middle of those big bushes, but you can’t see it because it hasn’t started blooming yet.
HAPPY EASTER, ALL!
Stay tuned.
March 24, 2018 at 12:03 am (Flowers, Places, plans, postaday)
Tags: Events, Fridays, Garden, happiness, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, seasons, weekends, Wordpress
Cares do not exist in a garden.
Euphorbia, 23 March 2018
Viburnum, early March 2018
Japanese anemone, early March 2018
Home for the weekend.
Redwood City March For Our Lives will be a big one. Tomorrow, 1 p.m.
Stay tuned.
March 16, 2018 at 3:25 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday)
Tags: California, Fridays, Garden, happiness, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Wordpress
Backyard, Redwood City: 15 March 2018
March 3, 2018 at 7:26 pm (Flowers, Places, postaday)
Tags: Garden, happiness, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Saturday, weekends, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is OUT OF THIS WORLD.
Stepping into her garden is like stepping into another world.
There are six steps from the back door to the ground. Self took the first picture standing on the top step.
The garden is rectangular in shape. To the left is a small courtyard that she bricked over, about 20 years ago. She used to have an apple tree there. It died. She used to have geraniums and camellias. All gone. There is one wee clematis that she remembers planting three years ago. A few weeks ago, it started to put out green shoots. Every day since then, it has put out more and more leaves.
Backyard, 2 March 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
February 25, 2018 at 6:50 pm (Flowers, postaday, Sundays)
Tags: California, Garden, indulgences, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Wordpress
Spring is just around the corner. Buds are beginning to open.
Here are a few of her flowers, just “faces in the crowd” :
In Bloom Today: Japanese Anemone
More on their way:
More Blooms Are on the Way
Plum tree’s covered with tiny white flowers:
Been Blooming for a Week Now: Plum Tree
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
February 12, 2018 at 4:32 am (Flowers, Sundays, Surprises)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, Garden, Redwood City
This bush in self’s backyard has grown to be a monster!
It’s perfect for Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge: the Letter ‘Y’
YELLOW! All over is YELLOW!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
The Blog about everything and nothing and it's all done in the best possible taste!
Never get lost in the Sauce
Be One... Make One...
Learning and teaching the art of composition.
Fueling fearlessness through style and inspiration.
My writing and photo journey of inspiration and discovery
Decades of her words.
Observations about my life and the world around me.
Yousuf Bawany's Blog
Any old world uncovered by new writing
the literary asylum
A site for small presses, writers, poets & readers
A journey from one end of the bookshelf to the other
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”― Madeleine L'Engle
Amuse Thyself Reader!
A blog. My blog
Just another Wordpress.com weblog
Finder of Fantasy & Adventure in Her Own Backyard
