My Wall

Lamenting the lack of nice objects to photograph, I headed back to the house until I noticed one shiny bubble, the size of a plum, sitting on the ground. The first photo was a straightforward shot, with the camera on or very close to the ground and pointed straight towards the bubble. After several pictures, I noticed that some areas above the bubble were still lit by the setting sun. Anyway, when I got home and after some inquiry, I learned that one of my sons was responsible for the bubble on the grass.

We had been walking around the park for sometime (with stops here and there to play and to try fishing) and got a little late going back. We were trying to walk as fast as we could to get to our car before the park closes. I claimed we walked 4 miles, my husband said around 2. I was so sure about the distance (after all, I got too tired) that I was almost too disappointed when a park ranger said that we completed a 2.5 miles loop.

So entranced was I by the blue huge bouquet of flowers that I took a cutting of the plant when we moved to our own house. Having read a little about changing a hydrangea’s colors and learning that acidic soil yielded the  hue that I desired, I added all the used coffee granules I could around our hydrangea plant and anxiously awaited that summer’s blooms. However, if we look at this as a periwinkle blue, which also is a color in the blue spectrum, I’d say that the hydrangea flowers acquit themselves well. And if a kind of blue is not enough, I include the above picture that is specially blue (but admittedly not the sad kind) 🙂 with a little disclaimer that I am in no way advertising the owner of the bucket

My five year old boy so wanted to have sunflowers in the garden. So one late spring day, we planted several seeds in a pot. Five of them sprouted but two promptly died because we went on a vacation and the soil dried out. Three survived and one of them is tall enough and healthy enough to produce a bud.