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A few nights ago, I went to a gorgeous place called Longwood Gardens and got to try out our new
camera. The first fountain is part of the newly renovated part of the conservatory. I took an awesome photo of the pair of these last year. The second photo is a shell fountain at the Pierre DuPont home on the property. At least I have a theme going here. : )
My mom, sister-in-law, her mom and Kenny and Tori came out to our house so the kiddos could open their gifts from us. Tori got a Tinkerbelle ‘head’ lamp as her main gift. Kenny got an assortment of t-shirts (his favorite thing to wear) and drawing stuff. I had chili, chicken salad tea sandwiches, ham pasta salad, fruit salad and pastries as snacks before we went to Longwood Gardens. It was jammed packed and Sean and I had to walk at least 1/2 mile to get to the front door. My mom and Colleen’s mom got pushed around in wheelchairs, though the kids got a ride when we went into the conservatory. I was using the new camera and it’s hard to get good nighttime shots-I deleted a bunch, but downloaded 60 photos! Here are some of my favorites-
Me and Tori in the main conservatory
Some of the outdoor lights
Stars on the ceiling of the main conservatory
White tulips
Blue tree outdoors
I finally went over to the ‘side window’ and got my frequent visitor pass so I can go as much as I want. We didn’t get to see the ice skating there which is new this year. We may go again next week. I got tonight’s visit taken off the price. : )
Sean in his room
Glass ball hanging in family room bay window
The red amaryllis in almost full bloom
(ignore the dust on the blue light fixture please) ; )
This was forced on my new kitchen window and will get about 5 7 blooms! I thought the Christmas tree as a background looked nice.
Mom and I always give flowers to each other on our birthdays.
Brian suggested that I give her a sampling of the flowers I grew.
It makes it a little more personal for sure. I hope they look good
in the morning for her birthday. I love the flowers that look
like orchids. I was trying to find the tag, but it’s gone. The
little statue is one she gave me and I thought it looked pretty
next to the flowers.
The red salvia did really well as did the blue salvia. I just like them in general as they are the annuals that stand the test of time and put on a nice show at the end of the summer. This was taken near my little pond.
The Cosmos are taking over the Zinnias, but the bees and butterflies love them both. 
Black swallowtail enjoying the Cosmos
You know what rhizomes are, don’t you? Sounds biological, but it’s just growing irises-the flower! They don’t have bulbs, they have rhizomes. I was out planting some rhizomes that I purchased on eBay. I was talking to myself (in my head) and I thought, if I could grow all these neat varieties on our acre of land that we don’t really use, I could sell them and make a mint! I paid roughly $3-4 each for them. If I only sold 10 a week, that could be an easy $40!!! It’s definitely something we could think about. I’ll have to Google iris growers/growing. I grew them in the past and they were gorgeous.
I didn’t go to my Mom’s today. She suggested tomorrow, just in case she needs to go to the doctor. She had a rough night last night. I still say she should put calomine lotion on the lesions, but the doctor said not to. I read in a number of places where it is okay. She is popping pain pills like crazy. Damn shingles.
Zinnia and Cosmos
Collages & Creative Goodness 
