Daddy and his girls

Okay, so they don't look too happy to be posing for the picture. But it's cute, isn't it?

I love it when he makes this face.

A little bath in the sunny library.

"Whadda you lookin' at?"

Wine and roses, Part II

Playing around with the manual focus on my camera. Finally you can see a gladiola bud! :) This is one of the taller red ones.

There are my beauties! Aren't they breathtaking?

I just couldn't take enough pictures of them!

My petunias, still going crazy.

While messing with the manual focus I obviously messed up the autofocus. Oops. Well, this is a picture of my last 2008 Little Italy bloom! :'( Till next year, my friend!

Wine and roses

My Wine and Roses glad is opening! It's a dwarf or something, because it's much, much smaller than my red one. Sorry about the blurriness.

The girls are thoroughly enjoying their 9 Lives wet cat food. :)

Kittehs!

more cat pictures

The Belching Squirrelcats

Featuring Ginger and the Other One

That's a band Dan and the girls created. Coming soon to your hometown.

Glads!

Glads!!

My container plants had to embark on a pilgrimage to the yard, because Dan wanted to powerwash the porch.

But now you can get a good look at my Twist and Twirl coleus!

I didn't get a "before" picture, but here are the steps after the powerwasher came through. They look new! They were almost black before.

Basement window #3! (Someone at some point in the past 100 years decided to try the very thing that Dan's doing, and their cement screwed him up, so this window only has room for 2 rows of glass blocks instead of 3. Oh well.)

The garage now has two sides of new siding done! You can see that I've been painting the trim white and I couldn't quite reach the top of the doorframe. I'll work on it later with a stepstool. ;)

GLADS!!!

I went out today with my camera and made Dan show me how big the peaches are getting (and they're getting some color, too!).

Then I got a picture of my little red lilies. I think they're a siloam variety -- very small blooms.

Then I was looking up onto the porch at my Mona Lisa and I noticed --

MY GLADS ARE BLOOMING!! Just the one so far, but I have a few buds on another plant up in the sedum garden. EEEEK!

I skipped around the garden and screamed at Dan to come look and basically almost hyperventilated. I had given up on them, hoping they only needed another year before they'd bloom. Yay! Oh yeah, and here's the pretty pot with my nemesia (going crazy) and the pink New Guinea impatien.

Four blooms on the Mona Lisa! I just love how I always smell it when I go in or out the front door.

My little clearance Sarah Bernhardt peony is getting bigger. Slowly.

I bought Granny this gorgeous pink picotee dianthus for her birthday, but it didn't do well inside, so she asked me to nurse it back to health.

A distant shot of the glad.

This Twist and Twirl coleus is going nuts.

And this wee small thing got a bath the other day. Then sat like a person in her towel. Barely long enough to get a picture. ;)

The Notorious C.A.T.

Elphie drinks from the faucet. And occasionally gets a drip on her ear or her nose.

I love the slight tilt of her head in this one.

Presenting... Mona Lisa. She looks a lot like a stargazer.

And *squeaky voice* Red Rum is looking beautiful.

I just noticed today that my Twist and Twirl coleus is sending up coleus-like shoots! I'm so very observant... I wonder how long they've been there.

The indestructible wisteria, leafing out like a plant possessed.

I'm gonna get a lot more portulaca next year and put it in all different size pots.

My phlox is looking more like when I bought it last year!

These bell-like blooms on the hostas are just so pretty. :)

A sincere missive