Some shots of the most recent bloomers:

I have no idea what this flower is.Edit: According to the lovely
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I've been watching the new series of "Inspector Lewis" on PBS (and again, what a wonderful thing satellite television is! Once upon a time I could only yearn to watch British television here), and every time I do, I begin to long for Oxford ( Read more... )

Yep, I have a playdate with my niece tomorrow. You see, she came over Friday night with a pair of paint-yourself plaster horses that her mother had bought her at Michaels. Unfortunately, Julieanne wanted to paint them right now, and as it was 8 PM and I had an early start on Saturday, it wasn't going to happen. This led to a KidFit ("I wanna paint ( Read more... )

My niece is here. She is (was? I think she's gone upstairs now) drawing on the chalkboard side of the easel down here in the rec room. I heard her complaining to Mom about noise ( Read more... )

I promised peony photos, so here they are:


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Well, there were blooms earlier, with the daffodils and the crocuses, but now it's June, and the summer blooms are starting to come out. Like the roses:


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This has been a week for gardening. I've spent probably close to seven hours all told out there since Sunday, which is way more than I usually put in during the run of a week. Edging has been reset, seeds and bulbs have been planted, soil has been enriched, weeds pulled, grass trimmed. It all actually looks rather nice ( Read more... )

Another day off, another two and a half hours in the garden. Ow. But I've managed to get all the prep work for next weekend done. All I need now is the compost and such... oh, and the plants. Yeah, remember how I'd started a bunch of seeds way back in March? They're all dead. Every single one. I only had about nine of the little peat pots sprout, ( Read more... )

For the first time since I joined LiveJournal, I've changed my default icon. See, I've become, oh so quickly, a fan of the BBC series "Sherlock", and I decided I needed icons. Found a few, but the new default pretty much expresses my sudden (and hardly inexplicable--have you seen Benedict Cumberbatch? Never mind the insanely good writing (Moffat & ( Read more... )

I believe I may be one of the last people on the planet (or at least the blogosphere) to see The Avengers. I went to a matinee this afternoon, thoroughly prepared to be thrilled to my toes and blown away to boot. ( And I was not disappointed. )