July 1st

I love the color of these lilies, my friend Kathysent them to me a few summers ago. I took a few pics after what seems like our daily afternoon thunder shower- I'm hoping the one that passed through at 5AM is the one for the day...but it looks like more this
afternoon :(










Wild berries in the yard- I hope I get some before the birds eat them all.....




My friend Cliff. This cat is breaking my heart. He's been a fixture for a while of my yatd. Try as I may I bring him in and he's good for a few minutes then he freaks trying to get out any window or door he can. I don't know what's going to happen when we move..sigh..if I can'[t get him in the house, carrier or not how am I going to get him to Buffalo and I don't know if he'll
A stay in the yard to be fed or
B survve the winter outdoors....

Welcome to the gardens part 2

Pic of the Day

While DD colored my hair and my best friend's hair I saw this butterfly flying around the white lillies. Here's my best of 3 pics.....

Welcome to Our Gardens

Enjoy your visit,



What one stray pumpkin seed becomes











This is my stray outside kitty- Cliff ,

This is DD's cat, Cyd Vicious

Busy Morning

There was a call for love blocks by one of my friends for a love quilt so I spent most of the morning making a bunch for her. Hope they work :)

Then I decided to see what we still had in the garden with all the rain last week and the high heat and humidity this week. Aren't these just breathtaking??????






And then I was going into the house to upload the pics and I hear the faintest Meow- seems I didn't pay proper homage to the resident princess -lol.

How could I forget

To post a pic of the finished wallhanging??? It's been done for a couple of weeks and looks great hanging over my bed :)






Isn't this great how close this butterfly let me get to him in my lily????

Still Sewing and gardening

Look!!!! Almost 2 cups of yoyos!!! What I'm going to go with them, I'm not sure but they look so cute in the canning jar :)
And the SB Sues from Christmas hell-lol. On retreat last fall a friend ( what friend would pass on such ugly Christmas Sues, especially since it was a 20+ year UFO for them? I ask you who would do that to a friend???) Gave me these "lovelys to finish. And just when I had the top pieced of 12 , she sends 8 more! grrrrrrrrrrr
So now I found them under my bed and started them again today and ripping the borders off to use as sashing AGAIN. And wait for more ugly Christmas fabric to come to the stores- needs that gold in it to be true to the original Sues....sigh. I have 2 more appiqued down and 5 to go- the last one I"m going to keep for a sampler quilt.
***rolls eyes***** since the last sample quilt I made, DD "borrowed" and never returned-







and my first callas of the year are blooming, *VBG* my favorite flower




there are just so many colors and types of lilies this year, FINALLY :)






Isn't this a HUGE flower??? I have to remember to dry some for a wreath this year.