Painting a Garden

Click the arrow to listen as you look around. Do you know who it is? I love listening to this when working in the garden.

It is Summer!

Click on the pictures to

see the stories.

July 2021

Finished my rain garden in 2020 so check out the Master Rain Garden site. I have started a new one for 2021. To be completed by Fall of 2021. And I have added on to the first one.

4/15/2020

The Covid-19 isolation has me finishing up my Gardening chores for Spring at a super fast pace.

Just a note the Jeffry Pines do not come alive here in Ohio. I tried several times. One of the tree doctors I talked with said, it was because of the elevation.
I have painted some rocks for the gardens. Check out the pictures.

Abercrombie the Scarecrow We have fun with Abercrombie each year. He is always doing something fun.	Wild Strawberries
Cherry Tomatoes	My favorite Zinnia
Praying Mantis	Delicata Squash This made the best Squash Soup ever....
Blackberries The were very plentyful and sweet this year.	Princess Annabelle My wonderful Hydrangea.
Toad House Found a toad living under the log. So I build him a house	Butterfly Weed Butterfly weed. I have three plants and they are very lovely this year.
Little tadpoles They are getting their legs	new tadpoles They have got their back legs now
Hummingbird Hollow A new side garden. I am working on.	butterfly puddler A new addition to the B&B Garden.
B&B The butterfly puddler... New addition to the Bee & Butterfly Garden	Sign outside Sign finally up.
DSCN9885 lots of baby Robins this year we had 11 babies.	DSCN9861 And bunnies too... 6 kittens by two litters... so far 4 have survived... We have feral cats.... in our hood.
DSCN9949_edited The newest bug motel. Creating bug rooms as we speak... Check out the wood burning section in The Crafts for the detail buring of this motel.	Cold Storage Frame My husband made this frame from my brothers old window down at the river. They slide open..
cold frame I am going to made a stain glass border on the window over the summer...	to weed rock
small pond	DSCN3587_edited I wish this was in my pond, but this is a place I go to, on the way up to the Goddess Grotto. The Grotto is tucked in the Mermaid Cove in Allegheny Reservoir. A special secret place of reflection on peace. Hit the back button to get back to this page.
house wren Little wren, on the house that Lenny made. I wood burned the feathers onto the house.	Fishey-2 the old bowl in the fish pond. The white fish has since passed. But Goldie is still with me going on 8 years.
Climatis This was a Clematis I planted many moons ago. It climbs all the way up the Magnolia Tree	Red-star My star from 2015
Lenny's-star Tropical posy (Hibiscus) from a friend to my husband when he was in the hospital. Six years ago and still a growing.	DSCN9731_edited My loving husband built me this lovely bug hotel. This was my first ever wood burning project. I created on the top and back of the hotel with a design I burned with my Razor Burner
daylily The daylily my friend Helga gave me, in 2018	Fred Fred the frog, who lives in the pond.
Sonny Sunflower w/bee 2019	red & yellow sunflowers With bees garden of 2019
seeds Seedlings from the Pacific Crest Trail. Pinus Jeffreyi After going to the link, use the back button to come back to web-site.	Joey one of my caterpillars
DSCN9697 Joey after he hatched. Only one male in my brood	DSCN9900 Molly B. Hatched on September 4th 2019.
Molley B Molly B. when she first hatched.	DSCN9712 My coneflowers
DSCN9711 My Cosmos	DSCN9710 My butterflys breakfast, Zinna's 2019.
DSCN9958 My husband and our Autumn friend, Abercrombie. He comes every September and stays until the middle of November.	DSCN9913 The pond with the hole.
waterlily Waterlily my Mom gave me in 2015	Zinna My baby Zinna, from seeds.

The Mason Bee hatched from their Bug House on April 3, 2020. About 20 that I could see and count. The flew right to the spring flowers and dandilions.
I have started to think about making Hummingbird Necture.. The Hummers are on their way up. Expected to be here on May 1st. I have added a web site that tracks the Hummingbirds migration. Click the tracker Button below.

Tracker Button

painting a garden

It is Summer!

Abercrombie the Scarecrow

We have fun with Abercrombie each year. He is always doing something fun.

Wild Strawberries

Cherry Tomatoes

My favorite Zinnia

Praying Mantis

Delicata Squash

This made the best Squash Soup ever....

Blackberries

The were very plentyful and sweet this year.

Princess Annabelle

My wonderful Hydrangea.

Toad House

Found a toad living under the log. So I build him a house

Butterfly Weed

Butterfly weed. I have three plants and they are very lovely this year.

Little tadpoles

They are getting their legs

new tadpoles

They have got their back legs now

Hummingbird Hollow

A new side garden. I am working on.

butterfly puddler

A new addition to the B&B Garden.

B&B

The butterfly puddler... New addition to the Bee & Butterfly Garden

Sign outside

Sign finally up.

DSCN9885

lots of baby Robins this year we had 11 babies.

DSCN9861

And bunnies too... 6 kittens by two litters... so far 4 have survived... We have feral cats.... in our hood.

DSCN9949_edited

The newest bug motel. Creating bug rooms as we speak... Check out the wood burning section in The Crafts for the detail buring of this motel.

Cold Storage Frame

My husband made this frame from my brothers old window down at the river. They slide open..

cold frame

I am going to made a stain glass border on the window over the summer...

to weed rock

small pond

DSCN3587_edited

I wish this was in my pond, but this is a place I go to, on the way up to the Goddess Grotto. The Grotto is tucked in the Mermaid Cove in Allegheny Reservoir. A special secret place of reflection on peace. Hit the back button to get back to this page.

house wren

Little wren, on the house that Lenny made. I wood burned the feathers onto the house.

Fishey-2

the old bowl in the fish pond. The white fish has since passed. But Goldie is still with me going on 8 years.

Climatis

This was a Clematis I planted many moons ago. It climbs all the way up the Magnolia Tree

Red-star

My star from 2015

Lenny's-star

Tropical posy (Hibiscus) from a friend to my husband when he was in the hospital. Six years ago and still a growing.

DSCN9731_edited

My loving husband built me this lovely bug hotel. This was my first ever wood burning project. I created on the top and back of the hotel with a design I burned with my Razor Burner

daylily

The daylily my friend Helga gave me, in 2018

Fred

Fred the frog, who lives in the pond.

Sonny

Sunflower w/bee 2019

red & yellow sunflowers

With bees garden of 2019

seeds

Seedlings from the Pacific Crest Trail. Pinus Jeffreyi After going to the link, use the back button to come back to web-site.

Joey

one of my caterpillars

DSCN9697

Joey after he hatched. Only one male in my brood

DSCN9900

Molly B. Hatched on September 4th 2019.

Molley B

Molly B. when she first hatched.

DSCN9712

My coneflowers

DSCN9711

My Cosmos

DSCN9710

My butterflys breakfast, Zinna's 2019.