Ketch-Up Day

 

 

How are you?  Can you believe it's September?

 

Birgit made and sent me this card.  Isn't it beautiful? It has special meaning for me because it was inspired by my garden 🌷

 

 

 

 

 Thank you so much, Birgit.

 

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The Eternal Garden

 

 

 

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The Inside Garden

 

That's all for today, folks. I'd love to hear how your week is going.

Till tomorrow,

Sandra 

Ketch-Up Day

 

 

How was your weekend and how is your week going?

We're doing fine on this end.

My blackberries are ripening.   I'm so excited.

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We met a couple of buds at Village Inn for lunch.  Yum.  Have you ever been to one?  They have a pizza buffet, a salad bar, soup, drinks and dessert.  Very tasty and very reasonably priced. 

I drive an '03 Mustang and one of the buds gave me this:

 Simple pleasures:)

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A few Eternal Garden pics.

 

 

Froggy fighting his way through the garden forest:)

 

 

 

That's it for now, Blogger Buds.  What's going on in your neck of the woods? 

Have an excellent week.

Ketch-up Day

 

How are you? Is your week going well?

Here, there's a lot going on in the garden. 

I went outside the other day and saw this:

That little dark spot beneath the tree is another baby Fox Sparrow. I went back in the house, came back out and he was gone.  I went over and there he was under the grapevine, griping at me the whole time I was weeding, so I gave up and went to the flower area and started weeding again and he followed me over and started griping at me again...or so I thought. Turns out there's two of them.  One is shy and one's an explorer. Hops all over the yard, following mom, falls down between the bricks then hops out. Then tries to hop up on the little fences I have around some of the flowers but no can do.  Their wings are really short and again they have stubs for tails. They literally keep their parents hopping. In fact, the explorer may have popped under the fence. I haven't seen him today. I think I MAY have seen the original Baby all grown up.  It was a fully developed young Fox Sparrow, but it still had a spot of gray on his wing.

The Robin is also nesting again, or another, very near the old nest. We've got frogs, chipmunks, squirrels and, of course, birds. Never a dull moment in the garden. Much entertainment for the cats on the porch.

 

 

  

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My brother, who lives in FL, encountered this guy on his bike ride the other day.

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Last but not least.

  That's it for me, Blogger Buds.  Ketch me up on you. 

Ketch-Up Day

How are you? How's your weather? We are in the middle of a drought.  I mowed Sunday. Pollen was flying like dust.  Of course, I didn't think about wearing a mask till after I started hacking:) We desperately need rain. For those of you who are getting too much wet stuff, feel free to send it our way:)

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Pics from the Eternal Garden.

 The blackberry bush. (See the pollen hanging on it?)

 

 

Pollen on the pavers and more in the grass.

 

The amaryllis and more pollen. Tired of hearing me whine about the pollen yet?;)

 

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This is so weird.....My onions started sprouting in the pantry.

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Maise

 

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The HH is in a poetry writing challenge this month and here is one he wrote yesterday:

When Words Appear

     Despite plausible theories,

     No one can really say

     Exactly how words

     Become available

     Just when they are needed,

     Nor why they hide so carefully

     In the tall grass

     Of our minds

     Creating a thicket of frustration

     When they don’t.

     There’s such a slim margin

     Between just OK words

     And the magnificence

    Of putting the correct words

     In their places.

 

 That's it for now, Blogger Buds. Been doing anything fun and exciting?

Ketch-up Day

 

How are you? Have a good weekend? Your week going well?

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The Eternal Garden

 

 

Other than the garden pics, I got nothin. Pretty sparse pickins this week.  See you, in the cyber sense, tomorrow.

Ketch-Up Day

 

For those of you who celebrate, did you have a lovely Easter?

Ours was quiet, but very nice. Hope yours was as well. 

 

                                             Easter flowers and vase from the HH.

What did you do to celebrate the day?

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 Can you find all four critters in the picture?

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The first irises of the season.

 

  

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Look I have baby grapes!

 

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Evening Garden Shots

 

 

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OMG. It's raining pollen.  We've never had this much pollen!

 

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Here's the four critters. Did you find them all? If so great job. If not: They do tend to blend.

 That's it for Tuesday, Blogger Buds. Have a glorious one.