Today is DS#2’s 28th birthday. Here he is at Easter in 1984. He was a very cute little boy with a big personality. Not sure why we were having S’mores inside the house, in our good clothes, at Easter time…??
Here he is with his lovely wife during a visit to the Botanical Gardens last year. Not sure how they grow up so fast…
Happy Birthday, dear son!! Lots of love, ~~Mom 🙂
DS shares his birthday with his grandfather, my dad.
Happy Birthday, Dad! Lots of love, ~~Rhonda 🙂
Need I say more? ~~Rhonda 🙂
At the front of the house…the hosta is ‘Blue Cadet.’
Left to right: ‘Royal Standard,’ ‘Frances Williams,’ and ‘Spritzer.’
On the opposite side of that same bed, this newly placed bench is a nice resting spot.
Back yard
The large hosta in the picture above is ‘Samurai.’
‘Squash Casserole’
‘June’
‘Fried Bananas’
Hostas under the big oak in the back yard.
~~Rhonda
It’s a busy time in the garden right now. Lots of flowers, lots to see, lots to do!
This old fashioned yellow iris is a great performer in the garden. It will bloom continuously for a long time, filling the iris beds with large areas of color.
This large white iris was given to us by our friend Liz, many years ago. We call it “Liz’s Big White.” 🙂
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The first daylily to bloom this season is ‘Bitsy,’ a small yellow one.
The hosta ‘Candy Hearts’ is sprinkled with the last of the dogwood petals.
The peonies have started to bloom. This is ‘Honey Gold.’
‘Shirley Temple’ is a very pale pink peony.
Peony ‘Krinkled White’ is one of my favorites. The petals look like crepe paper.
We don’t have many rabbits in the yard, thankfully. The cats keep the population down. But this one has taken up residence in the front yard.
We are preparing for a church picnic at our house on Sunday. Lots of yard work to do. We shall see if the weather permits us to get it done or not! DH and our nephew did get the fenced garden mulched, inside and out. It looks so nice!
That’s one of my favorite places to sit in the yard.
You can enjoy more gardens at Bloomin’ Tuesday at Jean’s place.
~~Rhonda
The bouquet for church this week was full of ‘Miss Kim’ lilac and several kinds of peonies. It smelled SO good! I also tucked in a few sprigs of honesty. The green seedpods looked nice with the pinks and lilacs of the bouquet.
‘Miss Kim’ is a late blooming lilac (our latest) and it has petite blossom clusters. So pretty.
Our peonies are in full bloom and, along with the irises, are a beautiful sight. If you’re in the area, drive by. Better yet, stop in. 🙂
It amazes me how well they hold up under high wind and torrential rain such as we had Friday morning.
I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day. I certainly did!
~~Rhonda
Yesterday morning, the impending weather looked so bad that I gathered DD from school at 10 AM. We spent about forty minutes in the basement, just before noon, waiting out a tornado warning. We did get some high winds and there was some major damage south of us, but the only ill effect for us was a lot of rain. DD spent time in the afternoon playing in the puddles. After 5:00, we were outside picking up trash and she had more fun with all the water.
This shows you why a particular large project is on our list of things “to do.” We need to remove all the plants from this garden which sits in the center of the driveway, add a LOT of topsoil, then replant. The center of the drive is lower than that driveway. When we get a lot of rain at once, it puddles like this. Thankfully, it drains quickly, but what a mess until it does. The problem is a result of the age of the driveway. Over many, many years, it has had a lot of rock put on it and eventually the drive has become higher than the middle.
In the meantime, it’s a lot of fun for DD. 🙂 ~~Rhonda
The mother raccoon took two of the babies and left two. We are feeding them until we can get them to a rehab facility. The larger one weighs almost 15 ounces and the smaller one is about 11 ounces. We’re feeding them kitten formula.
Julie, as long as they stay healthy, we’ll keep them till you can see them on Sunday. 🙂
~~Rhonda
Yup. Four baby raccoons. Had to have the furnace man come and extract them from the furnace duct! Now to catch the mama.
Yes, they’re cute.
No, we’re not going to keep them.
~~Rhonda
