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Remembering 2011 – Part Three

Things not posted throughout the year, part three . . .

June

Two front teeth?

Her first try at soccer, she loved it!

I visited New Orleans for a conference, we ate at Antoine’s. This was my dessert. I love custards!

antoines caramel custard

Coffee at Antoine’s, I didn’t have any but it was sure fun to watch them make it.

Antoines Cafe Brulot Diabolique

St. Louis Cemetary #1, it is about to storm.

st louis cemetary #1 storm

Here is an oleander in the cemetery, it is one of the many southern plants that I miss.

st louis cemetary #1 storm

Rain lilies, such a nice surprise!

rain lilies

I also adore crepe myrtles.

fuchsia crepe myrtle

Some cultivars will make it through the winter where I live but they die back to the ground, never developing the beautiful bark that you see on older crape myrtles.

fuchsia crepe myrtle

Just a post rain storm picture that I like.

New Orleans walkway

The sunflower house in my community garden plot. It turned out well but my daughter wouldn’t go in it because there were too many bees. What kind of nonsense is that? Too many bees?! I’ve failed as a mother.

sunflowers

July

I didn’t take many pictures in July so there’s really nothing more to say.

 

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Community garden – July 21, 2010

Today

zinnia purple prince melon swan lake

I

zinnia purple prince sunflower ring of fire

Have

sunflower valentine

No

red sunflower

Words . . .

Mexican sunflower tithonia

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zinnias sunflowers beans tomato

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Garden update – Mid-May 2010

Good news: So that’s the community garden plot, it looks great, makes me very happy. The “square” in the back is the soon-to-be sunflower house. N planted a row of flowers in front of the “house” just like our real house. Even though the flower bed in front of the real house is an awful, weedy mess.

Bad news: We were harassed by an uber-creeeeeeeeeeeepy lurker while gardening there on Saturday. I have not been this creeped out by someone in, oh, I don’t know, fifteen years? I’m not going back there without another adult and I will call the police if I see him again.  Ugh.

Onto the garden in my backyard . . .

I was out-of-town at a conference last week and it rained for much of the week. The garden looked great. Also the volunteer tomato and tree seedlings look fantastic! I will have to do a lot of weeding very soon before they get out of control.

Brassicas in the yard

My violas are still growing strong, they usually would have pooped out by now from the heat. They are crowding out all of the swiss chard seedlings.

A bigger view of my viola/swiss chard pot and a few other pots.

Lavender and violas

My year old peach tree looks better than I ever expected for being only a year old.

Dwarf peach

And baby peaches!

Baby peaches

 

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