I planted some calibrachoa and lantana in this galvanized container. It sits on the Funky Patio, which is looking a lot neater since I took this picture as I weed whacked yesterday. I really love the calibrachoa because it quickly takes off and spills over the sides of the planter.
Plus, cheery colors!
I woke up too early this morning, feeling edgy with my mind going a mile a minute. My eyelids feel gritty, as it was awfully windy yesterday and I mowed and weed whacked and trimmed and pruned, giving all the pollen floating around ample opportunity to irritate my eyes.
I’m close to finishing Lee Child’s latest and that will mark a ‘back to fiction’ victory. I’m going to start another book immediately. I have to. I can’t watch the news without feeling like my head is going to explode. I have to turn it off. I have reached a stress level that needs to be contained and quieted. Nevertheless, I’m making phone calls.
Meanwhile, bravo to the New York State Attorney General! Bring it on! (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, google it. It will come up very quickly.)
I’m headed over to Milne Antiques and Design this morning because I want to purchase one more outdoor chair. Rebekah (the owner) is going to take me to their warehouse! The chair will go in the secret garden area behind the kitchen or up on the back forty. Maybe it will alternate between both sites, depending on my mood. I quite like the idea of another ‘room’ out there, where I can sit and read and not be seen.
The black raspberries are coming.
Happy Friday.
Our pollen count has been extremely high here. All of the trees are shedding their white fuzzies (no clue what type of tree it is). Makes for runny noses and eyes that feel like they may pop! Allergies are such fun!
Oh to have a secret hideaway to read in! Surrounded by nature, a cup of tea…heaven!
Have a wonderful time picking out the new chair. Pictures please and thank you!
Hugs for you and Don!
Also surrounded by pollen! Thanks, Debbie.
hope your eyes feel better by now and that you sleep better tonight.
how fun that will be for you to go to the antique shop’s warehouse, find another treasure and have a secret hideaway for tea and reading! hope you find just the right thing that makes you smile.
but wasn’t there poison ivy behind the kitchen somewhere? i know you are smart about that and where you’ll put the new chair.
glad you are back to reading fiction again. i’d been in a bit of a rut (about reading, knitting, etc.) not too long ago and know it feels good to get out of it. a relief. almost like getting a car out of a snowdrift.
and yay about what your attorney general is doing. iowa has a part in that and i am glad if they don’t let it all slide.
happy friday and weekend to you, don and everyone!
kathy in iowa
The poison ivy is not on the lawn. It’s all safe!
good!
happy weekend.
kathy in iowa
xo
I can’t watch the news and even reading some of it online is hard. So yes books, gardens,grands and movies are my refuge! Enjoy your day. We have sunshine, but rain is heading our way for Father’s Day!
On Monday – when I’m going to the city – it’s supposed to be 97 degrees here. Are you kidding me??
It was a bit over 90 today but humidity was 54%. SO Uncomfortable.
I don’t do well in that kind of weather – I know you don’t either!
The colors in your container look gorgeous together. I was rudely awoken this morning at 4:30 by rolling thunder…it truly did sound like the ‘angels were bowling’. But…it was a ruse by Mother Nature….not enough rain to matter around here. It is supposed to get unbearably hot and humid here over the next four days…oh what fun.
A chair in your secret garden sounds wonderful…you can hide way from the cares of the world back there. I can’t seem to read outside anymore…I get too distracted by nature. Enjoy your shopping excursion! ;)
We need rain. I noticed that the rivers are low.
I’m too distracted by pretty much everything nowadays!
Oh, the black raspberries! Flashback to my teen years, when my Dad found a massive wild black raspberry bush behind a very overgrown old orchard on our property. With the biggest, plumpest black raspberries you ever saw. Dad, Mom and all 6 kids spent a couple weeks picking them for quite a few Summers until it finally fell into a dormant state & stopped producing [at least that was Dad’s theory]. Who knows? Maybe it’s full of juicy fat berries again! What I wouldn’t give for a bowl of cold berries now? Or some of Mom’s homemade jam. Or a slice of homemade black raspberry pie with Perry’s vanilla ice cream! Heavy sigh. Enjoy that new chair in your private garden escape! Peace.
#Resist
#ProtectMueller
They are so good! We have a lot, but not enough for a pie. We just gather what we can and enjoy them.
Don will enjoy those raspberries!
Didn’t ever think to put lantana in a pot; have a lot of it in the ground, yellow and purple whereas my parents had some in orange (you could kill that bush with frost every year but it would always come back, and I didn’t want to lose it but we had to make room for a ‘stairway’ to the hilltop four year ago so we could get in there and work on the hill which meant that the dear old orange-y lantana had to go).
Hope you had a good day today, Claudia. Thanks for posting.
Lantana is an annual here. It wouldn’t survive our winters, so I plop it in a pot.
Have fun at the antique store. I an dreading Monday’s weather. Will stay indoors and relax with the air-conditioner.
Marilyn.
I am, too, but I have to travel into the city that day.
The heat and humidity have returned here. So uncomfortable. We had lightening with much thunder around 4AM early this morning. It just poured rain. Sadly, it was less than 1/4 of an inch. In the 90’s for the next 3 days.
I am so very happy to hear your reading mojo has returned. It is just awful when that loss occurs. If I couldn’t read right now I am not quite sure what in the world I would do. It is my haven. It seriously keeps me going. I need to find a safe place in the fictional world ~ away from the ridiculous news that assaults us daily. It is just too much. (and yes, the news from NY was great news. Just hope it sticks.)
Take it easy as the heat moves your way.
It’s very dry here. After such a rainy spring, we are now desperate for some rain. I don’t see any possibility until late next week.