No Painting the Roses Red Here!

As you all know I LOVE my flowers! These are a few of my most recently bloomed lovelies! Above are the redest roses I have ever seen! They smell delicious too!

These are an orange color, bright and bold, they are placed in the garden next to a deep purple flower and they play off each other nicely. The purple ones only bloom in the morning though, not good for my photography schedule, but I'll try to catch them to post.

I cannot remember what the heck these are called, but I do remember reading on the handy dandy little plastic card (these should be made out of rice paper to bio-degrade by the way), that you can add the greens to salad for some "zest". After tasting a few leaves, I have come to the conclusion they taste like radishes! I love the bright colors though! And that a few different colored flowers come off of one plant is extra cool for this novice gardener!

Sanj-Izaak

This past weekend Izaak went to a Memorial Day BBQ at a friends house. He wanted to do something to himself to make them laugh and this is what we came up with!






Needless to say he got quite the reaction and alot of laughs! I LOVE that my son isn't afraid to be silly! His confidance in himself is admirable...I'm such a proud crazy Momma!

The Stars at Night are Big and Bright....

I was in San Antonio, Texas for the past few days, visiting my girlfriends Kim and Tonya...Wholy FUN!!! We had a great time hanging out, making strangers into "friends", drinking, "Toobing" and laughing our asses off!

It was wonderful to see Tonya's baby girl, Acie! I hadn't met her yet, and Morgan and Colton have gotten sooo big! I had to give Morgan the run-down on her long lost love, Kaleb! We looked at some pictures and told her how much Kaleb still loves her, she was his first real friend. Colton is such a great boy, well, almost a guy, I was a little freaked out to hear his voice about three octaves deeper than I remember...why do they grow soooo fast???

Kim's boys, Canyen and Hunter were a blast! Canyen had a baseball game and I got to watch his team do some down home Texas butt-whoopin! I got to play on the giant trampoline with Canyen and we got in a great session of catch - the boy's got HEAT! Hunter and I read a book before bed time and had a couple good laughs about the Truck book!

It was awesome to see my Girls and their kids! Thanks so much to Mom and Dad coming to help Luke with my kids while I was away, I couldn't have escaped without your help! I'll miss my friends but I'm glad to be home...four days away seemed like eons! 'Till next time Texas!

I took this pic. out the airplane window, on my way home ...not too shabby huh?!

A Gaffney Girl Weekend...

This weekend my Mom, sister, niece and nephew came for a visit just in time to see Izaak's stage debut in his middle school's presentation of Robin Hood! It was great to see them and we all had a great time watching the play! We played in the pool and even got to rock out a little fishing with my Mom, who of course caught a big small mouthed Bass! We brought the fish home and she taught me to fillet it...gross! I probably won't be doing it again unless we are starving and counting on it to survive but at least I know how, thanks Mom! We had amazing weather and really good time, could be like that all the time if they we only lived closer!!!

Adventures in Gardening...

This year the fruits of my labor are really showing nicely! I haven't been weeding as diligently as I should be but when I do get to it it's like meditation! I can just focus on the intruders and I feel sooo good once my task is complete! Above from left to right are; a "pincusion" flower, one of my many "haleborus", and a "Joseph's Coat" rose. In addition to these, my Rhodedendron bloomed for the first time this year, and I have a Peony bush that is almost ready to come into it's glory! Another treasure is my Clematis, that is climbing wildly up a trellis, I'll have to post pics of that later, maybe with the Peony... I just love my flowers!