Garden Photos Part 38

the Loch Eagle monster - call the tabloids. this guy has got to be pretty close to 2' long. if I'm close to the shore where he's feeding and he decides to splash, it scares the #$*% out of me

Very nice, Jan. I like Touch of Class too. Deb, being in wine country, you should grow corkscrew vine next to grapes!

Is that a Koi, grampapa? must be some kind of carp .....

Its Carp. Big one too, they are bottom feeders and generally clean up everything.

Koi are carp as well.

Yeah, goldfish, koi, all carp .... we call 'em scum fish when they come up on the line. Can find them in the scummiest of waters. Cool fish, I think. My friend says they taste OK.

Looks kind of like one of my baby koi.

I hear some people discard koi into streams, etc. when they grow too big for them.

Cotinus Grace leaf, bathed in warm late PM sun today.

More of it.

Waterlily.

Debilu those are some great combo's - love the colours you have....very pretty.

nice leaf pics Victor

Thanks, Jo Anne. How are you feeling?

Eglantyne remember RU people?
June 28th at Kassia?

Great photos, folks--love the roses, especially Wild Blue Yonder. This is the only rose I have blooming--looks like a tea, but actually is a small shrub.

Robin, beautiful rose

Victor, the waterlily is lovely. Is it a hardy one?

Yes, it's a carp, but just an ugly old common one. nothing you'd buy to keep in your pond. bottom feeder...that's why they come up so close to the edge of the water...good eating, I guess. it's a little bit creepy when I'm up early and there's nothing else moving.

Im doing great Victor.
See doc today and have the last pin out.Hope I can get rid of the surgical boot and wear regular shoe again.
I'm ready to be well believe me.

Woo Hoo .... no more pins!! Good job, JoAnn

beautiful pics. I love the persian shield and coleus - nice combo. Redchic...you know those pics are not of my yard...I wish! Victor - that waterlily would make a great painting. How I wish I had that talent!

Thanks. Yes, Jan, it's a hardy one. Anita - I wish I could paint it too!

Happy Autumn!

I haven't painted in years and fear I have forgotten everything I learned in college, but there is plenty of inspiration here. I used to sit out in my garden with my watercolors. really need to find the time for that again (sigh..). the persian shield and coleus would be a perfect subject for watercolor, too

I saved the Persian shield and will paint it into a composition this winter.
Try a small painting a day, it's amazing how what you learned long ago ,comes beck.

I was a professional artist most of my adult life-but now I garden instead. I knocked out a few giant pastels of a papilio hippeastrum and a cymbidium orchid last summer but nothing since. It always comes back. I use my pics.

I use some of the photos from DG.
RC put one up earlier this year Helleborus I painted it twice, loved the pallet.
Patties gren tomatoes and baisil made a nice small piece.
I am glad I don't have a big financial commitment to the studio, I couldn't survive on the sales these past few years.
Most of my art career was as a studio potter, loved the life.
Stopped potting in 1996 took up watercolors and gardening.
No wonder your gardens are so well composed booj.
Did you sell your work thru galleries? out door art shows?
Do you have any photos of the pieces you did?
I don't mean to take up art on this post but sometimes it comes up.
These are the small birch paintings done today. My local Gallery was out of work cause I took out most of the big paintings thru the tourist season, they buy mostly small works when traveling.
"Stormy Birches"

"Winter Birch"

This is the last of art on the flower thread
Autumn Birch

Fun!! I'll send some pics to you sometime, ge. I am crazy today and they are on my back up hard drive upstairs.

Yarrow still putting out blooms!

White coralberry.

Summer Wine.

Blueberry coloring up.

Even the waterlilies getting into the act.

Last for now - crape bark.

Nice light on great bark!

Nice birch trees JoAnn.
Nice shots Victor, I still want a blueberry.

Me too, debilu.

Yes, JoAnn, lovely paintings. I appreciate anyone who has an artistic bent. I am a stick figure person, too. My biology students would laugh at my attempts. Actually, so did I. But, my DH and all our boys are artistic. As well as my brother, Dad and Grandpop.

Victor, did you shear off the yarrow or has it just been continuous all summer? Mine didn't do that well this year cuz it was so dry. There is some healthy-looking new growth though, so I'm hopeful.

No, Jan. This one, a volunteer, was not cut back at all. The dead heads are still on it, but now it has put out this new bloom.

Great pics, as usual, everyone!

JoAnn, glad to hear your healing well. I love your birch paintings. Birch are favorites of mine. I'm an artist, too, though haven't done any drawings or paintings in quit a few years. I used to do ceramics and sell at craft fairs and through tourist gift shops, but became quite discouraged at how little I would get for something that took many, many hours to do. I love drawing and painting, too. Have done more drawing than painting. Here's a colored pencil drawing I did some years back on black paper.

Karen

Didn't take any pictures today. Was doing some weeding a preparing new beds, as well as moving DL plants around, trying to improve things around here. Always lots to do.

Karen

Very nice, Karen!

Thanks, boojum.