A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....02-24,25,26-06....T.G.I.F. at the Finest

Billie

[GodBlessUSA]

Amy's flowers sure are beautiful. :)

I have to cheat and buy them already grown in pots and then transplant. :) I had them in my window boxes one year for spring. Unfortunately, they don't last very long here.

[DollyCali]

Hello everyone!!!

FReeper LS & Jeff Head's Newly released book...a novel about 911

Well, I just got in. I decided to do some more yard clean up as I burned a pile of tree limbs, etc. I have not burned since Labor day & had a sizeable pile. I went out about 7 AM & was out until about 12:15. so that was a lot of physical work. Josy helped me by taking out tree limbs that I put into the burn pile..She would drag them around the yard. Toby is a "roamer" so I had to keep him on a long lead. Josy sticks with me pretty closely (for now)

It is just a drop in the bucket of clean up, but it is a start & now I will have the pile somewhat reduced. The large tree came down last summer.. that has been a big mess to clean up. Some of the easy stuff was burned Labor day. By today, more had dried up so I could break off limbs.. Still a long way to go. Supposed to rain perhaps later & so wanted to get the job done first. Will feed mom/me & then take dogs out for exercise.

Didn't wear gloves(stupid) and my hands are full of blisters, cuts & stain(pine)

Dinner & movie date tonight.

Not sure when I will have computer time.. not looking good today - I have a couple projects to do.. BUT it is nice now (mid 40s) and the temps will be dropping & rain coming later.. so outside, while I can.

[LadyX]

How sweet of you, Meggsie...my love of flowers began in a South Florida childhood, with infinite, colorful variety abounding.
Our next door neighbor was a lovely widow lady originally from Charleston, and although she had difficulty walking and 'doing,' she still had to have rows of flowers along the side of her front yard.
At ages 5 to 9, many evenings I would go out @ 7 p.m. to help her weed and work them. She'd edge her little stool along, and I'd provide leg/bending work..:) She had tall rows of colorful cosmos, and several shades/type of marigolds filling the bed, plus edging, with baby's breath, argeratum, etc.
[She'd have her radio playing in the window, and I got hooked on the evening serial, One Man's Family, about a very wholesome one.]

As life turned out, her son, Bill, went off to WWII as a tailgunner on B-23s, out of England over Europe. Not too long after his return at the end of the war, he married my older sister, Anne, so Miss Willa really became part of My Family!

Living in so many places, I came to know and appreciate all kinds - like lilacs, from South Dakota and Virginia (bush by the house where I lived when my Kevin was born) north through Rochester, NY (2 years there), where there was a large park with The Lilac Festival each May...

In South Dakota, there were miles of HUGE fields of giant sunflowers out on the plains, and in the mountain meadows by Rapid City, that summer I was very pregnant with our daughter, so I usually was parked with the picnic basket in one by a stream, while the boys (7 & 8) and Dad roamed the ridges. My faithful little dog, Shadow, would follow them a bit; circle back to check on me; back and forth..:))
It was a glorious time, reading and relaxing (even dozing) in the sunshine.

I supported several nurseries in North and South Carolina, in my glory..:)) Having to greatly scale back now, I still get my fill. My snowbells are at full height now, blooming for a month now; my pansies continue to flourish - and many other Spring things are out in the landscape...first Bradford pear tree blosoms seen this past week; buds fat on the dogwoods, etc.

As for birds, many varieties are plentiful here all year long...mocking birds (always one nesting and singing in the hedge below my bedroom window), blue jays, cardinals (one was singing on the house wire this a.m.), robins, woodpeckers, mourning doves, crows, little yellow and red dudes, plus others seasonally; hummingbirds, starlings, etc.) - and at the house we had on the lake a mile from here, geese and mallard ducks, herons, hawks, big owls, and even seen a few times - a magnificent resident bald eagle!

I could never enjoy living in a city asphalt jungle again..:(
I'm too tied to His wonderful vistas and natural things...

[snugs]

Do you have Wallflowers in America?

[lonestar]

UUUmmmmm! That looks good. I need some when I take a break from practicing quadruple-toed loops and lutz, etc., etc.

I'm one skatin' dog!

I got the gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Bridge! Also, I was the judge.

[MEG33]

I have not seen these(wallflowers) and I found this on a London gardeners page..I saw yellow,blue and orange ones,too. There is a band called the Wallflowers and that slows the search!LOL!

[Kitty Mittens]

There are Many Birds Here where I am at the King's Ranch, and I am Always Joyful when Migrating Flocks Stop to Forage for Food. Most of the Day, I have my Blinds Up in Every Room in the House, so I can Look Out at Any Time and Observe the Activities of the Birds and Squirrels. A Few Times, Meadowlarks and Robins have Completely Surrounded the House, and Some of them are Always Singing their Sweet Songs.

There's Some Kind of little Bi-Colored Birds that are Here Frequently, and they have the Cutest Feet, Lol! They Walk Around on the Deck, and come Right Up to the Dining Room Windows; that's how I Saw their Feet. One Incredible Moment Recently was when Seven Male Cardinals were Foraging at the Same Time Beneath the Pecan Trees; what a Lovely Sight!

Thanksgiving Arising to Him Who Grants these Blessings to us!

[Majie Purple]

ooo pretty wall flowers Meg!

[MEG33]

It sounds wonderful! Have you ever seen a Painted Bunting? I haven't but would love to.

[Kitty Mittens]

Those Wallflowers are Beautiful, Meg, Similar in Color to Some Petunias I have Been Using as Houseplants this Winter, Lol! I've Enjoyed the Lovely Purple Color During Many Dreary and Cold Days, but I Keep having to Rinse Aphids off the Leaves, which is not Fun. :(

Hi to Snugs, and All the Freepers Finest!

[DollyCali]

The carolinas are wonderful for birds, plants, wildlife in general.. mountains & ocean both in a day's drive for most locales.. miss it there

[DollyCali]

Beuatiful Bird. You know I really regret not taking an ornithology class. I know so little about birds. I recall as a biology major, it was one of many options..I tended to take more of the botany ones as you didn't have to kill/cut on things

[DollyCali]

Is this the one in Kingsville Texas?

[DollyCali]

:-)

you are funny!

hope you are well & how is the home repairs going?

[MEG33]

I've had impatiens in the house but never petunias!

[Kitty Mittens]

What a Beautiful Bird, So Pretty! I've only Seen a Bird Once that could Possibly have Been a Bunting; it was Sitting on a Fence So Far Away I couldn't Get a Good Enough Look at it to Identify it! But it was a Bird that was Bunting-Sized, and was Wearing a 'Coat of Many Colors!'

I'm Looking Forward to the Arrival of what my Grandma Used to Call "Chee-Chee Birds," because that's what they Seem to Be Singing, "Chee, Chee Chee." I Love their Songs, and they are a very Cute Bird, Also.

[snugs]

Looking at them is great but it is beautiful smell they give off totally unique they are my favourite flowers the only problem is you have to plant them every year.

[Kitty Mittens]

No, this is just a Little Piece of Property that I Purchased a Few Years Ago, that I Wanted a Special Name for, because it's So Lovely to me. I Settled Upon 'The King's Ranch,' Naming it After our Beloved King of Heaven.

It has Many Trees, a Nifty Creek, and Several Small Ponds on it, and I had Many an Enjoyable Day Hiking through the Woods, Until Awhile Ago when I Injured my Back.

I Hope I'll Get to Put my Hiking Boots Back On One Day in the Future! :)

[DollyCali]

I was at the Kings Ranch (not far from corpus Christi).. that King is a man's name.. the ranch has been operational for over a hundred years.. over 800,000 acres..

[DollyCali]

"pinging you" to the Finest