What's the view from your favorite perch? Show and tell...

Pod I do the same thing! Don't want to waste a drop. I have some barrells too. When we wash our vehicles we pull up so the water will run off on the grass and plants. Also provides a cool spot for the dogs. My poor pups have suffered in this heat this summer. I have kept the little pool with enough water so they can hop in and cool off.

Well, Sticks n Stones - You got yourself a very rare deal. How lucky they let you have it at such a discounted priced from what they were originally asking! Here's our story. The people who had the yard sale had sold their house and were moving. We looked around at their tables of "stuff" and picked up a few things. But on our way out, my husband noticed this dirty-looking blue "egg" on the ground next to their long driveway. He thought it was the base of a lamp, but thought it would make a great garden ornament. I agreed. He asked the nice lady "Are you selling that?" and "How much do you want for it?" She said she hadn't thought about that "old thing", but would let us have it for $3.00 as long as we didn't tell her husband the price (seems it was his). Well, along comes her husband and he sees my DH picking it up and says "Hey, there's a big old bowl that it sits in. Plus I made a wrought iron stand out of an old table pedestal that it sits on perfectly. Do you want those, too?" Well, needless to say we said okay, but still didn't realize it was water fountain. My husband went behind the garage with him and saw the grimy other pieces covered in algae and dirt. The base was all rusty-looking, but he took it anyway. As we were leaving, the woman yells, "Hey, here's the pump that goes with it!" That's when we realized it was a working fountain! I don't think her husband knew we only paid $3.00 bucks for the whole thing, or he might have had something to say about that. We high-tailed it out of there quick-as-wink. Got home & cleaned it up. My husband wire-brushed & painted the wrought iron stand black and sponged on a little blue to compliment the glaze; plugged it in; voila ! it worked! God bless yard sales and unsuspecting husbands LOL!!

Podster ~ Your birdbath is great! But I really love your cat!

Wow, work really cuts into my gardening and my computer time. Work is slow today so I get to play on the computer for a while and see the fun things people have aquired for 'next to nothing' and the beautiful views. I always wanted to go places I saw on calendars, but now I want to go to all the gardens we have on DG.

S&S and podster thanks.

I can't believe the views they are so peaceful and beautiful. I love the water, just looking at it sooths the soul. And Marygarden is that a log house I see? Love them too. What a wonderful place to go, seems so relaxing.

Balvenie, what a view! Love it. Isn't it fun, we see the beautiful water on each side of the continent.

Thanks for sharing, Marie.

Sticks, at first when you asked about attaching the top, I thought you meant the cat (was going to say verrry carefully : ). This thing is so heavy it is going nowhere. I have had to relevel it a time or two. I can slide the top off onto a bench but it takes all two of us can do to reset it. I am serious. I use a little red wagon around the yard. It hauls potting soil, sunflower seeds by the 50# sack. We moved this bath from the truck to this spot one piece at a time via LRW. The basin was the 2nd piece moved and as we got it to where the base was, the rear wheels on the wagon collapsed. There was no changing my mind.
Marygarden ~ your fountain was a real treasure for $3. Wonder if the wife ever owned up to how much she got for it? : )

MyRee ~ Here's a little better shot. It's a faux log cabin. :) I live in a year-round beach community on Long Island, which at one time was mostly vacation homes. The beach community was established in 1928 and the house was built in 1938. This is one of the few log cabins left in the area and we wanted to maintain the charm of that look. So, although everyone has been building up, expanding out and "vinyalizing" their little cottages, we've modernized the inside of ours, painted the outside, added a new roof, a shed and gardens. We're happy with the results and it seems like the neighbors and people walking by like it, too.

Podster ~ I hope not.....that move their making may be to separate states!

MyRee ~ I found another picture, but it's the same side. I just realized I don't have alot of pictures of the actual house! Zillions of pictures of my garden and flowers, though!!

Delightful home Marygarden... One feels welcome just looking at it. We will gladly admire your flower and garden photos too, Hummmm?

Marygarden,
OHHHH, I just love it. So beautiful and welcoming to all. I am so glad you chose to keep the log look. Your gardens are wonderful, It looks like a yard that you could just cuddle in. With a beautiful view and the seeming shelter around, I would have my sweetheart out there cuddling on the lawn. HEHE.
I know that you are enjoying it so much.
Pictures of the yard ARE welcome. Marie
(those hostas are BIG and Beautiful)

Thank you so much! We do love it here. We have the best neighbors and the greatest view. All of our neighbors love to garden, so we have much in common. Here is a photo of the day lily garden last year. In the background is a small rose garden with Bonica roses, Rugosa Belle Poite Vine (a seaside rose that's very easy to care for), Double Delight and Brigadoon roses, and clematis. There's lots of Alium Globemasters around the property. These are done blooming, but I love their big brown globes even when they're no longer purple. I'll send a few more pictures.

Here's one showing the view right before the sun has set. That's Sparky the Cat.

This one's the tail end of sunset. We're on a cliff that's about 150' above the beach overlooking the Long Island Sound. No chance of flooding, but look out for winds!

What a view! Nice...

Thanks, but I had nothing to do with it :) This is our little rock garden that we put in last year. The phlox really took off this spring.

Come on now, you took a beautiful picture.

I love the color of the phlox, are they fragrant?

Very slight fragrance.

mary ...great story about your fountain....i just love it when there are 'additions' to the story...it just makes the piece more special....:)

mary....LOVE LOVE LOVE your last pic with the umbrella...I WANT YOUR HOUSE!!!

Marygarden, I saw this post and thought of you... http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/644800/ Check it out... pod

Podster ~ Thanks for thinking of me. Dave did contact me, but as I told him I'm more of an outdoor gardener and have very few house plants. If the reporter ever wanted to do an article on outdoor gardening, I'd love to be part of that!

Sticks ~ Thanks so much for your kind words about our house. I feel a little weird sending pics, but I guess it was worth it!

Mary, please don't feel weird, I think almost everyone LOVES to see others' gardens, I do! Your home, garden, views and fountain art are all so nice, thanks for sharing!

flygirl...mary... i agree....we all wanna see pics...it is what makes this site so fun....

Thank you, fly_girl ~ I am so amazed at how many beautiful gardens are out there....it's humbling and so inspiring.

I haven't checked this thread in a while, but had to say, marygarden, that your home is breathtaking and you obviously know how to garden!!! And your blue fountain is something I'll bet 99% of DGer's would want!!!!

It's fascinating to me to see how many truly gorgeous places there are around our country and the world - makes me not quite so smug about the Pacific Northwest!!! LOL

Thanks, Murmur ~ I noticed we have the same zone......and on opposite ends of the continent!

Mary, how beautiful. Thanks for sharing, pictures are the only way we can truly see what is out there, and how DG'ers have so much in common, it is so fun. I love sunsets and where we are now there are homes and trees all around, Sunsets are still beautiful, and I do enjoy them, I think I am going to spend many evenings at my daughters new home, her sunsets are spectacular. Marie

Mary, it's interesting, isn't it, how we are the same zone but so far apart? You live on Long Island Sound (which I had no idea was so beautiful) and I live on Puget Sound (or on an inlet of it at any rate). I have friends on the other side of the island where I live that have a view very similar to yours - you'd both appreciate each other's!

Marie, I think sunsets through trees is about as beautiful as anything you can find - that's what I have here as well and it never fails to take my breath away. Talk about feeling connected to nature, eh?

Carole

Murmur ~ I think that living on or near a body of water like the Puget or Long Island Sounds creates a micro-climate within your own area's zone. I notice that the cooler evenings and the breezes during the days in spring and summer make our flowers bloom a little later and a little longer then neighborhoods that are just a mile or two away.

Marie ~ Life is short. Enjoy every sunset you can whether in your own backyard or someone else's.

It's not fair ! Here I sit, surrounded by grass, bushes,
a privacy fence, and no flowers. I'm going in the garden
and eat worms.

Mary, I DO enjoy the sunsets, I didn't mean to sound as if I didn't. Each one is a gift, just like each flower or each bird.... It seems though, that when you can see so far in the distance it somehow brings it so much closer to you.
I have such fun in my garden and very often sit in the swing and just take it all in. My form of Yoga. :) Marie

This was taken last week at my mothers, where I grew up. Don't ya just love it?

This is looking east from mothers house. I loved where I grew up. The farm life was hard, but it taught me how to work. (The horses are the neighbors). I had a wonderful horse, a cross between an arabian and a quarter horse. She could run like the wind, and I loved it.

Marie

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This is my view sitting in my swing in the morning.

Marie

Marie ~ Spectacular! You are truly fortunate. The power of nature is awesome. I never thought you didn't enjoy sunsets, I just meant that every one of them is a gift.

Marie, those are spectacular!

Marie, The heighth of the sky and the depth of the clouds is unbelieveable. Amazing a camera could capture that. Beautiful!

Ignoring the handsome devil in this picture, look at the background. Trees ~ all four directions... no sunrises ~ no sunsets ~ no light breezes. On the other hand, when we are away, I find it soothing to get back into the trees and green of deep east Texas! It is what we make it, and I love it. pod

pod...great background....including the handsome putty tat:)

Roscoe says thank you...

The look on Roscoe's face reminds me of a grumpy old man. lol.

My favorite "perch" lately is my puter at night (too busy with school teaching to do yard work during the week) AND just have to show you my "view"...after podster got out her "bragbook"!!! :) This is the new year-old cat I just adopted last month....Brutus (better known as "Pretty Boy"!!).