It's A Beautiful Morning!

This morning I arose to beautiful

sunny skies and calm weather.

I decided to grab my camera and 

take a few pictures of the gardens near the cottage.

Above is Annabelle Hydrangea

The shade garden is doing ok

after the hail last week

although a lot of the hosta leaves

are pretty beat up.

The flowers in the bicycle baskets

took a beating too 

but they're alive. 

I still have lots of room for 

more shade plants but I think
I'm done for this year. 

Hubby carried my heavy concrete

bird bath into the garden

yesterday...it's good to see it again 

after being stored for 2 years.

One of the Salvia's in the front garden

that received hail damage.

It's holding it's own though.

This garden was planted this year...

we still have to put a rock boarder around it.

In the background is the David Austin rose

Graham Thomas that will be trained to 

climb along the fence. 

I better get that fence painted before I have

to pussy foot around the thorns!

Annabelle Hydrangea's 

growing along the front of the house.

The house was a deep blue

when I planted them but now that the house

is a pale yellow I wish I had

planted blue Hydrangeas!

I still like them.

This was my fathers trike

that he was given by neighbors

in the early 1920's.

It was old when he got it!

We still need to cut the tops off the posts!

This is the only patch of nice lawn 

we have on this farm. 

When we moved here the old

foundation for the summer kitchen/laundry

house sat right there.

Our camper sat out there on gravel/concrete and dirt

for 3 months while we did renovations

to the house. 

It took lots of fertilizer and grass seed 

and water to get it this far!

Above is what this area looked like before.

You can see the power pole in both pictures.

The chicken coop/garden shed is still here

but the barn and round storage building 

and the metal building next to it are all

gone now. 

I miss that barn.

Just a photo of the old porch that will 

one day be replaced with a 

screened porch.

It's waiting for me to stain it...

but right now I'm going to 

sit out here with my coffee

and enjoy the morning.

I hope you have a WONDERFUL weekend!

Maura :)