June 24th is
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Fairies in my garden, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.Look who I found amongst the blooms and branches. They were quite friendly!
(I didn’t know about the 24th until a friend mentioned it on Facebook!)
Happy Flag Day!
She’s almost at eye level in her nest in my butterfly bush. When she is alarmed, she flies to the back and up and out. I was a bit nervous when taking this (and three other shots) as the flash was going off and I didn’t want her to put my eye out.
We tried to get some tomatoes in the big garden yesterday(about 10 so far)-between showers that is. The new top soil seems to be helping a lot! The ground looks almost like ground coffee! The weather looks more promising today. I’m going to add a few mounds of fingerling potatoes to the other part of the garden too.
And I repotted this lovely orange Gerbera daisy and it presented me with a flower yesterday.
I found the neat basket for $3 at the Goodwill.
My ‘lilies of the field’ are starting to bloom. They are indeed near the long part of our yard! I think I saw a ruffled yellow one too. This is a Asiatic lily:
There is a Daddy Longlegs on the one blossom there.
And last but not least, a small part of my fairy garden:
Some of my little figurines have lost a wing or look a bit worn, but they still look cute when the flowers and plants grown larger and they are hiding beneath them!
Sean and I went down to The Wilmington Flower Market/Fair-a 3 day event-the last day was Saturday. It was about 80 degrees and we were very warm as where we parked was a hike to the fair. I bought a few plants and Sean bought me a perennial, which I will show you soon. They had a ‘donor’ tent where people donated plants from there garden. I bought a red lily.
I would have bought more if the prices were more in my range.
Isn’t the stone tower
shown neat! There were people up in it, but I was not in the mood to climb the stairs (I guess) as we had climbed the side of a hill to get to the fair.
We left there and went to the Hagley Museum, but just looked around the outside and the Brandywine River. The one photo shows a bird’s nest with what looks like a piece of paper towel or plastic. A rude lady (pretty sure it was a woman) in a van for old folks started honking her horn like a crazy woman near us. Here we were on the wrong said of a metal gate that was going to close behind her-we had no idea about that or why she was honking. She could have nicely rolled down the window and told us about the gate, but she had to do the horn thing. I complained about her to the girl in the gift shop, but of course she didn’t know the woman. So if anyone reading this works at an senior citizen’s complex near Hagley Museum, you have a rude driver!
Here’s Sean the last time we were in this area:
A couple taking a walk along a snowy path, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
I really like the prospective in this photo. Brian and I were at the Brandywine River Museum for the tribute to Andrew Wyeth back in January-thus the snow. It was a cold day and I was surprised to see this couple walking along the river. It’s a neat place to walk when it’s nice, but they braved the cold to take a look at the swift currents of the river.
A pal on Facebook added a link for some free photo shopping plug-ins. Since I haven’t done too much lately with Paint Shop or Adobe, I downloaded a couple and this is what I got from one of my Longwood Gardens shots:
I think this is pretty enough for a card!
It’s called ‘Dreamy Photo’.
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I’m fighting a cold or something-have that funny feeling in my throat. My appetite is okay for now. Bri had to go over his dad’s Friday night after dinner as he was getting sick to his tummy. He is better today, but it’s scary when an older chap is so ill. Crossing fingers for me and Bri now.
Longwood Gardens in April, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
Here are the lovely things I saw today. And I don’t know the people in the middle shot either.
I’m a bit late today-or should I say tonight as I was busy looking at my son’s paper and then I went over to Longwood Gardens for an hour.
So here’s what I’m sharing-these magical Fairyopolis books!
These are gorgeous ‘interactive’ journals based on the Flower Fairies created by Cicely Mary Barker. They span from about 1923 to the 1930s. The first book is Cicely sharing her fairy findings. There are petals of daisies to lift where the fairies have left a barely visible message.
I found this book at B*Js Wholesale, but I found the next book at Bor*ders for only $5.99-I just purchased this one on Tuesday night. It’s just as sweet as the first and the journal of Dulcie,a little girl who wants so badly to see the wee fairies. It also has a special musical pop-up section in the back.
I guess I can lend these to my niece and hope she gives them back. : )
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I went to Longwood Gardens as it was a lovely day for a long walk. I am sore from yard work and just happened upon a path where I had to do a lot of climbing. I saw a part of Longwood I haven’t seen for years-the eye of the water!
After seeing this, I thought I’d have a terrible walk to the entrance, I didn’t! The path wound around and I was so happy. I went in the gift shop and bought these for 50% off:
The sales lady said I could let them wilt and then plant them.
I went down the length of our road and spotted the camel (see the two humps) and she had a baby that was right next to her! I took this shot from the van, in the middle of the road, hence not a good shot:
I have lots of photos to upload!
I may go to a book sale tomorrow in my hometown, if I can get out of bed!
Have a great weekend!
A friend of Sean’s took some photos of him for an assignment. I think these are great! Thanks Sarah (hope she doesn’t mind I copied them). These were take up in State College. Makes me miss him even more!
He added his Vegas shots too:
He likes this one the best:
The Sahara
The Venetian
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Handful of impatiens, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
I picked a bunch of colorful impatien flowers last summer to squish and make prints of for my art projects. I had my husband take a photo of them first.
And here is my hub’s hand holding a cute toad:
Here’s a casting of my son’s hands made when he was 12 or younger:
This past Friday, I decided I needed to do something different. I hadn’t had my van for 3 days and it was nice to have wheels again. I headed to Longwood Gardens to see their orchid display and to get a walk in. I want to try for a mile or so a week and build up. Here are some of my 85 photos, the rest are on Flickr. I love the blue poppy too!
I came home to a message that Brian’s father that he had fallen down on an errand to get a watch battery-the town he went to wasn’t around the corner. He tripped on the curb and hit his nose enough that it had a wound that bled a lot. They called an ambulance too. He was at the hospital and no one knew it. We tell him to carry his cellphone on him. To make a long story short, he’s doing good-Bri checked him out on Saturday. We want him to get his eyes and ears checked (he hasn’t been to an eye doctor in at least 15 yrs). He seems to be getting more frequent falling or tripping episodes. I even called Bri’s aunt to talk his dad into going to the eye doctor as she use to run the optical dept of a nice store in Philadelphia before she retired. Crossing fingers.
Also on Saturday, Bri’s car’s brake lights decided to stay on and we had to drop that at the shop and disconnect the new battery. When it rains it pours! I was outside raking out some garden beds too.
We are all anxious for Sean’s trip to Las Vegas-bon voyage to him!
Collages & Creative Goodness 