Wake me when it's time to eat.....

Zoey and Daddy

Mom and Zoey

She loves her "mommy".
She is a very quiet baby and loves to sleep.

Zoey

The latest addition to my garden of grandchildren.
Zoey arrived 3 weeks early on November 30th.
She is the "apple" of her daddy's eye and MY little "pixie".

My driveway in the Fall

I love coming or leaving home. My driveway is like a page out of a country novel.
It amazes me every time. GOD is such a GREAT artist!!!

It's over.......

Two big frosts in a row... the veggie garden is GONE!
Some of my flowers are hanging on. It's time to get ready for winter.
Straw on the strawberry plant and Blueberry bushes. Picked the last of the peppers before the frosts.
I really don't like winter. I know it's a necessary thing but it is so gloomy and cold. I spend the winter just waiting for the first sign of Spring.

I have my list of things for next year's garden and can't wait for the seed catalogs to come in.

I guess I'll knit and crochet all winter for the new granddaughter coming in December.
Can't wait!

These are "Profusion" zinnias. They grow 18 to 24 inches tall. They bloom from spring til frost. They are excellent border plants.

Poke berries. These are the fruit of the poke salad plant. It grows in fence rows, log piles, out your backdoor if a seed is dropped. My mom used the juice from these as ink, to write with when she was growing up. I think the berries would make a good dye for cloth or yarn. I am going to use it diluted, along with some other of nature's gifts to paint with, kinda like watercolor.

My Mr. Bumble Bee. I just love this insect.

Garlic chives. Very tasty garnish and can be added to stir fry.

Muscadine grapes. The most wonderful taste of any grape. This one makes wonderful jelly and fantastic wine!

The lowly Crab Apple. This is the first year I will have enough to make jelly out of, if I get to them before the deer!!

Autumn Sedum. The bees just love these flowers. They get bigger every year.


Knockout rose. I just love these roses!

These are Sumac berries.
I make pink lemonade from them. You have to be careful. because there is a poison sumac, and you don't want to pick the wrong ones.

These had lightning bugs all over them. They come up volunteer every year.

This a wildflower called,"soapwort". It grows along roadsides. It supposedly will soap up if you crush it and rub it in your hands. I've not tried it. Very pretty though. Not too many really pink flowers out there.

Turtleheads

They look like turtle heads! They multiply well too. I have them all over my gardens.

Today's Flower

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Today's flower is a Rose of Sharon.

Mellow Yellow Monday

This is a "Yellow Lady's Slipper". It is one of this country's true orchids.
It grows in the wild and is on the endangered list. We have 2 growing naturally on our place and about 200 that were saved when an area was clear cut. They are truly remarkable.

Enjoy!

These are some clouds I have photographed over the last 7 months. We have had some amazing clouds this year. I just love them. There are more posted on my photography blog on www.marrsphotography.blogspot.com

My okra plants have finally taken off. I have 4 rows and they need picking just about every day. I have a great recipe for canning them so they taste just like fresh picked okra when I fry them. I have regular clemson spineless and burgandy okra.

Strange sight

This dirt dauber has a mud nest going up on the door into my basement. I never tear their nests down. They dispose of spiders. They catch them live, put them into the mud tunnel with the young dauber larve to eat. This one was having a bit of trouble getting this one up the door facing. The spider was a chubby one!

What flower I am

I am a Daffodil What Flower Are You?

Mellow Yellow Monday

My friend, Mr. Bumble Bee busy at work.

Bad Day!!

My dingy dog found a rabbits nest in the front field in front of my house. She crippled one killed one in the nest and injured one. I brought the injured one in but
I knew it was not good. I wrapped the little thing in a cloth and held it so it wouldn't die alone. Took about 10 minutes.

I have never wanted to strangle a dog more than I did today. This dog is kind of crazy. She loves to kill and eat things. I don't know why she just "killed" these little creatures. I don't like her at all right now.

I have the one she crippled. It doesn't have any use of it's back legs. But, 'Bootie" is doing well. I don't know if it is he or she, but for now, I will call it, she.

She loves lettuce from my garden and apples. She seems to be doing good except she can't walk.
I will make her a large cage and she will have a safe place to live out her days with us.

Mellow Yellow Monday

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My little "friends" at their home. They are busy all over the place.
It has been dry and they have not made much honey.
With the rain we've had, I hope they can make enough to get through
the winter.

Cloudy and pleasant Saturday

I got up this morning and it was a little cloudy.
I don't mind cloudy, in fact it was a good day to get in the
garden without burning up.

That didn't happen. Had other things to get done.
We have been dry for about a week now. So about noon, we got a small shower.
Not much but it was better than nothing. I'm sure the plants are loving it.

I have found a site that is just wonderful. It is called bagsbyannieg.com
She is a fabulous seamstress. She makes different things. You just need to go
to her site and shop, shop, shop. She does a very professional job on her items.

Green Persimmon

Spaghetti Squash. This is a strange vegetable but delicious.



Butternut squash. New one for me.

An heirloom pea from my grandmother. We have kept this seed going for over 50 years.
I don't really know the official name of it but we call it "appaloosa" pea.
It grows about a foot long and the vines are enormous. They are delicious too.

My "Big Bertha" bell pepper. After 20 years
of growing bell peppers, I am finally going to
harvest a pepper.

My "new" potatoes. They are very good with fresh green beans.

Amazing Kids

These kids will make your heart beat a little faster and your day a lot better.

My Bumble Bee friend

I love these little things and they love my sunflowers.
I think bees and sunflowers should be in every garden.

Small guests in the Garden

This beauty visited on my fence one day. I thought it was injured and crept closer. It sat for a few photos and then flew off.
I don't even know what it is. I've never seen one like this before.

Simple beauty!

I love "bumble bees"! They are amazing to watch.
They LOVE the sunflowers!!!

My beautiful little bee friend. This is wild butterfly weed. There are dozens of bees on this at any time.

This visitor just stood there and stared me down.
He seemed to be telling me that I was in HIS garden.

July 1, 2009

These are called 'Walking onions".
They are fun for kids to grow.



When they start to make "heads" they begin to
look like something from the sea.




As the heads mature the little bulblets start to
take shape.




This shows the individual bulbs that you can plant
or put in your favorite dishes like you would garlic or onions. They are very delicious.



Today was a very pleasant day. I was inside most of the day. I really wanted to be out in the gardens, weeding and watering. I had too many meetings to gt out much.

Sunday

I picked my first 2 ripe cherry tomatoes today. They were good but the skin was a little tough. Not enough water in the last week. I have watered just about every day, but it's not the same as a good soaking rain.
We need rain really badly. My beans are hanging full and blooming all over the place. My peas are just starting to bloom.
We have dug 3 messes of potatoes. I've picked 3 zucchinis, 2 yellow crooked neck and several cukes. I have spaghetti squash coming along. I'm not sure when to pick it. I'll google it and see. I can't wait to try it. It looks good when Rachel Ray cooks it.
I have photographed my sunflowers several times a day for the past 2 weeks. I just LOVE those things. They are so beautiful alone and they seem to be smiling when they are in groups. The bees are just loving them.

This is a cherry tomato I planted at the front porch. I am using the railings to tie the plant to. It just keeps on growing!!







This is the "tipsy" pots that I made in early spring. The volunteer sunflowers have taken over.
The birds scattered the seed everywhere and they all came up. I have sunflowers all ove the front and back yards.

I love sunflowers. The bees and other insects love them too. The birds have a blast when the seeds are ready to eat. This makes for some great photo ops when the birds are frighting over the seeds.

Knockout rose bud

















My sunflowers














These are called, "walking onions"
The heads become a big head of little bulbs.
They taste like garlic/onion. I put them in my pickles I can and use them in stir fries.
They will come up everywhere one of the little
bulbs land. The birds carry them off and drop them. I love the heads cause they look like swan heads as they grow upright. Kids love them.