What's Blooming Outside Your Door, Part 2

My daughter took this picture today while I was slaving away in the garden... She does enjoy the garden..but not the "work" necessary to keep it looking good. She hates bugs too! Took a nice shot however..

Chased this baby Dragon around for a while until he finally made his landing on the biggest boulder in the yard. He was only about an inch long....a small stone would have worked for his landing pad!!!
He is so handsome with his tourqoise markings. How delicate his wings are!

Great dragonfly shot!

Thanks..I like it too!

I found this mystery flower hiding near my shasta daisies today.
It is very pretty,but I don't know where it came from or what it is.

It is mysterious.

Great pics Bea, have macro settins on mine, but just havent had much to play with to get it right LOL

Will do Neo, will ad it to my book. hope I don't lose this one. LOL

Looks almost like a Freesha.

Ixia? aka African Corn Lily or something like that..

tilly..don't feel bad..took me 18 months to even know I had the macro setting on the camera. Who knows there may be more features hiding in there..before you know it I will be as good as Ansel Adams.. NOT!
lady bug on peony bud

Found my first lupine flower buds today. I am so excited to see what color this one will be. My first one ever I have grown. Yeah!

Katye..I think you are correct. Googled it..as saw some pictures.
Now the mystery is did I plant this or did it drop from outer space?.
Back to the perrenial file and look through invoices... Man ..It heck getting old(er) Not dead yet...
A little spider enjoying one of my peony buds. I prefer the lady bugs!

That is a great feeling, like a kid opening a present, hurry I want to see, hurry hurry hurry, and you know its the longest wait ever. LOL

White spiders are pretty cool - & such long arms!
Maybe he'll unwrap your peony bud for you!

One glad (out of 100?) opened today!

Thanks for the advice. I wasn't sure about putting pictures up. Do you resize them before you put them up or does DG take care of that. I know they add the thumbnail, but I wasn't sure about the other one.

Great macro pics!! I love bugs! In their own environment. I found the settings for macro, I just need to take time to play with it. I'll check out the forum. That lupine is a really pretty plant, I'll have to find a spot for one of those.

Bea, don't give up on your daughter working in the garden. My sister was like that (didn't like bugs or dirt) now, she's the one who told me about DG. And she has an eye with the camera.

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Hey all I just had to restart us, this is getting WWWWay to long to post
so I started a new one, don't hate me, its for the best.

We went to here.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/860745/

I hope it works LOL

wow everyones pics are gorgeious. my irises are on their way out nad your are all coming in! fantastic.

beahive... i want one of your black and yellow iris. omg.... its gorgeious! please let me know when you get a name!

**has anyone thought about starting a new theread? takes long to get all the pics... or are we going for a record! lol

Shokami, see the link just above your last post. Tills is way ahead of all of us.

shokami2. I should have remembered the name of the black & yellow iris.
It is named " bumblebee deelite". available at Schreiner's.

http://www.schreinersgardens.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SIGO&Product_Code=BUMB

Their description has it as yellow and red. Not sure where the red comes in. In my garden it is black & yellow with some white in the detail.
Enjoy if you get one.

Ooooh. I love that one.

Just got back from Michigan and carried back over 1000 lbs of Pudding stones. My DW even thanked me for getting them. One heavy one I had to get with a canoe from a waterfall area. We were on drummond Island and it is full of them. I actually have my Irises blooming now. It has been nice here in Montana the last 24hrs home.

This is my University of Michigan Iris. I always cut it and stomp on it to act out my frustrations being a Michigan State Grad. LOL

THERE you are. Nice stones - sigh . . . I could use some. Glad you're home safely. And glad you had a good visit.

This is just a piece of rocks piled on the shore for a breakwater. So much temptation to take the ones on private land. But we didn't. Our rental home on the beach of Lake Huron was filled with awesome rocks.

Hours and hours of peace and quiet. Books to read, lakes to paddle, and of course rocks to find. We want to move to Drummond Island after being there everyone was so nice, beaches were empty, water was georgeous. Many islands to paddle to. I'll shut up and leave this to your photos. Steve.

hoe did you get the rocks home? 1000 lbs is alot!

sis (PeaFowlAnjl ~ I finally got her to join DG!) has lots of rocks on her property that we used to line moms beds. I would have brought bunches of them home if I could have! guess i'd need a big truck? I wasnt sure how much the durango would hold! lol!

it amazes me that everywhere I went in WA/OR there was all kinds of neat looking things on the side of the road that I could use in my garden...rocks, wood limbs from trees, foxglove & penstemmon growing wild!
While here in CA , in a city...we would have to pay lots of money to get stuff like that! Guess I HAVE to move to WA! LOL! (for the sake of my gardens!)

I found some hard hack (spirea douglasii) last year along the road up here - seriously want it. I've been waiting for it to bloom this year so I can dig it up and bring it home. This site has a picture along with some great pics of other Oregon natives.

http://www.komonews.com/weather/blog/22711519.html?blog=y

We put the rocks into the car in even weighted locations. My shocks are gone and so are my tires. Oh well you should see the garden. LOL
Talking of wild flowers what is this one I found on Drummond Island. It is georgeous?

We put the rocks into the car in even weighted locations. My shocks are gone and so are my tires. Oh well you should see the garden. LOL
Talking of wild flowers what is this one I found on Drummond Island? It is georgeous!

Nice photos, Steve! And beautiful rocks. You're a man after my own heart with those rocks. I can easily see bringing home 1000 pounds of them. They are beauties! That last flower looks like one from a carnivorous plant? A sarracenia maybe? Tell me that you saw those in the wild!!

cool lightening photos. We lay in the hammock last night watching the sky. Mostly got what we call 'heat lightening', nothing as dramatic as those photos show. I miss the drama of the thunderstorms we used to get in Texas. Lightening would crack all the way across the sky. Now THAT was a storm!

You guys are too brave. I did not want to be outside . . .

No bravery required here. The lightening was too far away to be any danger to us, but that wouldn't have been the case for you. I just talked to a friend in Puyallup and she was kept awake most of the night by the loud thunder and huge cracks of lightening. It's not smart to be outside when it's that close to you. But it is WAY fun to watch! (from inside)

Was just looking at some pictures of lightning in Duvall and over Lake Sammamish (near Kate!). It's probably a good thing I couldn't actually see the lightning . . . we didn't have this in Alaska . . .

Love storms. We had about two hours of thunder this morning. Didn't see any flashes with it. And no rain although it poured early this morn.

It Was lightening in so WA and OR when we were driving thru...thats what kept me awake all night! lol! beautiful show, but not as impressive as the lightiening shows in Utah & AZ! now that was a nice show! lol!

Oh, yes Utah and AZ would have lovely lightening shows!! In Texas we lived in the desert right by the Rio Grande river and the sky was huge, the stars bright, and the storms big! I don't miss the tornadoes one bit but I do miss the thunderstorms. The only good storms my kids have ever seen were in Tennessee. Somehow I think they've missed out. Thunderstorms and lightening bugs. Two cool things Tennessee has that we don't.

I saw two lightning bugs in my back yard in Seattle. I'm from Indiana so I know what I was looking at. And later I read a news article that sometimes they are seen here.

No Way!! I have never seen one here. I wonder if they've somehow crossed the cascades? I really miss them, but wouldn't want them if it meant they would displace something that's supposed to be here. But I'd love to see them!

I thought me move to part 3 , just, I hope got my computer fixed, took 2 days of fighting with it. this is still to long to load.
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