Warning: gross photo ahead

I noticed this weird glob yesterday on a piece of yard art in the garden. It wasn't there Friday.

Unfortunately it is still there today, so I took this photo.

I was hoping it would disappear overnight so I wouldn't have to deal with it today.

Time to get the hose ...

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Any idea what it could be?

Shadow Shot Sunday

I saw these colored jars in a friend's garden I visited the week before last, and knew I had to photograph them. They reminded me of the colored glass photos posted by our blog friend Sylvia K.

And I captured some morning shadows in the bargain!

Go visit our awesome Aussie meme hostess Tracy at Hey Harriet and join in the shadowy fun!

They're bloomin'

Straight out of the camera this morning ~ I've been watching these lilies under the front window grow for the past several weeks and today I got my reward!

Bloomin' yucca

This is part of a second, smaller yucca plant we have growing in front of the house. I had to cut down the stalks on the bigger one because they blocked the front window. And the petals were falling off. Not good.
I took this in the morning sun today. I like the photo and the shadows on the railing.

* Tour de floral *

Took some pix yesterday. Woo hoo!
The Yucca plant in front of the window finally bloomed. It usually is up and blooming on Father's Day. These stalks have gotten quite tall. When the flowers die I cut down the stalks, and miraculously they grow again the following year, even though the plant is indigenous to the desert.
I like the reflection of my car and of the stalk.

I call this 'purple perennial plant next to Yucca.'

I forgot the name of it, but it faithfully comes back each year. That's why they call it a perennial!
That's about all for today's tour. Have a great Thursday.

Late this afternoon it happened..the sun reappeared!

So I ventured outside and took some garden photos to celebrate.

I feel better now.

Green Thursday

For this week's Ruby Tuesday I shared our first tomatoes. Not literally, but in a cyber-photo way.
Today Patti picked a plate of peppers, and a few green tomatoes. There's some red in one of the tomatoes, but it has green stripes. I picked them to ripen inside, because some have been rotting on the plants. What are we doing wrong?

I don't really even like peppers.

Plentiful perennials

Whoever planted this lovely flower garden in the backyard of the house my mother has been renting certainly knew what they were doing.


As soon as one kind of flower wilts and dies, another equally colorful one comes along to take its place. The timing is extraordinary.
So far it seems there is not a day during the spring or summer when there is nothing in bloom.


It started in late April, when the forsythia bushes bloomed. They were surrounded by white and yellow daffodils, patches of tulips, and later some lilac and rhododendron bushes.


Since my mother will be moving out at the end of August, I took some pictures yesterday afternoon for posterity. She said she knows she'll miss looking out the window at the beautiful backyard. And who could blame her?


Lilies, Black-eyed Susans, lavender blooms, deep blue hydrangea...





Gorgeous, and blog-worthy~

I make the effort

I took this photo in '04 but the message holds true today.
Sometimes I have a few issues with my flower garden.
The house plants are doing pretty well, though.