He Who Plants a Garden Plants Happiness

Our garden, our little piece of heaven on earth.

Garden 2014!

This past weekend we finally got our garden planted. We finished up on Easter Sunday. Thank the Lord for the beautiful weather that we had. Our backs and knees were sore, but it's going it is always worth it.

 I got this cute garden sign at Hobby Lobby with what was left on my Christmas gift card from sister Kay. (Thanks sis!)

We planted tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cantaloupe, squash, peppers, pole beans, lima beans, cucumbers, okra and lots of sunflowers.

We got these beautiful hanging baskets at Chuck Johnson's Nursery in Cookeville.

I redid my iris garden this year. This past fall I separated all the iris bulbs and replanted them. I didn't think they would bloom this year, but lo and behold they are.

We also added a new jackmanii clematis vine and climbing flower vines to our Iris garden. We ripped out all the plastic lattice last year and Terry built this awesome new fence on either side of our garden entrance.

Tomato plants.

Got these colorful sun catching wind chimes at Hobby Lobby as well. They are really pretty when the sun is setting.

"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful." ~ Abram L. Urban

"Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it." ~ Author Unknown

"Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration." ~ Lou Erickson

Spring?

Enjoy the flowers on this snowy spring day.

Winter please go away!

2/14/14

Terry surprised me yesterday with these beautiful orange roses for Valentine’s Day. Our favorite college football team is the University of Tennessee, so the color was appropriate.

I fixed us a nice Valentine’s dinner of New York strip steaks and baked potatoes. Today, Terry is taking me out for a Valentine lunch at Sammie B’s in Lebanon.

Love is old, love is new, Love is all, love is you ~ The Beatles

Mum macro.

Backyard Wild Flower

Roses in October

Three weeks ago I cut my rose bush almost down to the ground and it's back with a vengeance. You know it's been a warm fall when your rose bush is full of buds. I think we're going to have a warm fall because we never really had summer this year, but that's just my humble opinion.

Morning dew drops on one of our pretty roses.

We found these pretty wildflowers growing all over the side of the road on our recent road trip. Anyone out there know what these are?

Lilies

 

Garden 2013 is well underway. This is our first cucumber flower of the season. We're hoping for a better garden this year than we had last year. So far, so good!

Mom's lilies are in bloom and are absolutely gorgeous! I was afraid they would bloom while we were at the beach. I was so happy to see them just starting to bloom when we arrived home last Friday.

I love the pink color!

Our Irises are in bloom. So pretty and they smell so good!

More Macro

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin. ~ Matthew 6:28

Wildflowers Sept. 9, 2012

 

The Last Flowers of Summer

Wildflowers & Plants of Cumberland Mt. State Park

Coneflower

Ferns

Rhododendron

Sunflower Macros

Macro photography, also known as macrophotography, refers to taking pictures of small things at close range. Although macro photography traditionally referred to taking pictures with a sensor that is larger than the subject, it currently includes taking pictures in which the image appears at least as large as it does in reality.

 

Sunflower petals with water drops.