Showing posts with label Stella D'Oro Lily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stella D'Oro Lily. Show all posts

Friday, June 7, 2013

Summer's Comin' but it is Still Spring

 
 
 

      I haven't worn fashionable heels in years but even in my best years I wouldn't be able to wear this type of platform shoes.  At  5' 0", I could have used a few inches.  This shoe was found along side of a back road to the in Mays Landing, NJ.  Something prompted me to get out and retrieve this lone shoe that some Cinderella lost after partying too much at the prom.  I shared my story with a few friends and two people said they had driven by and spied this same shoe. Give this vine another month and it should be a special delight in my front court yard.

 
 
 
 
 

    This Robins' nest had 4 nestlings and they were ready to fledge on the day we got hit with a storm called Andrea.  Saw one left in the nest during the storm.

 
 
 
 


 

   
I really wanted one of those fountains that start at about forty dollars for small table top types to upwards of a couple thousand for impressive garden accents but I get satisfaction by crafting my own. So I bought a 15 dollar small pump and camouflaged it in a kitty litter pan with stones and other natural materials. I was pleased but I was hoping to attract a few birds but so far no visitors. In any case it has a soothing bubbling sound.

Flowers from a blackberry bush called Black Diamonds:



 

Spiderwort:

 
 
 
 
 

 Road for Progress---NOT!  I did not want the development behind my house but that is what is coming.  They are talking about three hundred homes.  In the future this will be a paved road in my back yard leaving me with no privacy.  So even though I prefer no road at all, this unpaved  road with a few remaining indigenous laurel bushes is pleasant when there aren't vehicles speeding through:



 

 

 See my reflection in the gazing ball:


 

 Stella D'Oro Lily:

 

Genus: Oenothera

Species: fruticosa

Common Name: Sundrops: