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Back Yard Blues — I Mean Yellows

Posted on August 19, 2019 by mohawkvalleygirl

See how many blooms!

After two failed attempts at making today’s blog post, I went out to my backyard and took some pictures. I had been meaning to do a Rose of Sharon update, because it is getting more flowers. There is not a whole lot else going on in my yard, but one does what one can.

Another angle.

And a further view.

The last shot shows how big the plant is so far. I imagine it will get bigger yet in the coming years.

I looked around to see what else I could shoot. The Black-Eyed Susans did not look a whole lot different from when I last photographed them, but I don’t think I have gotten a picture of the Queen Anne’s Lace that is growing amongst them.

I really must weed this bed.

I have already taken numerous pictures of the Brown-Eyed Susans, but they are just so cute, and so much more plentiful than last year, I couldn’t resist taking more. At least I tried to get a different angle.

Butterflies like them too.

I’m standing on the deck looking down on them.

I limited myself to three, which was not easy.

Looking around the lawn, I checked behind the garage, where things sometimes get out of hand. I once performed heroics getting rid of two pricker trees, and I have to keep an eye that they don’t grow back. Tonight I noticed a plant with little yellow flowers.

It does not appear to have thorns.

I’ll have to try to get a better shot of it. However, right now it is clouding up, and I am hearing some rumbles of thunder. Additionally, I am approaching 300 words. That is quite respectable for a Sunday post. Thank you for visiting, and I hope to see you all on Monstrous Monday.

Tree and Typo on Tired Tuesday

Posted on June 26, 2019 by mohawkvalleygirl

It is that moment in the evening when I am wishing I made my blog post earlier. However, that ship sailed, and I do not want to be another post behind. Well, what’s wrong with another Tired Tuesday post, anyways? For one thing, I can potentially include a few monster pictures, since I refrained from doing so on Monday.

The tree in the background has been called Frankentree.

This is not exactly a monster, but it might be a little scary. It is the remains of some branches I cut off a tree in my backyard. And if you want to hear something REALLY scary, there is the typo I made when I posted the picture on Facebook. Earlier I had posted, “I fought the lawn and the lawn won.” With the above picture, I typed, “Maybe the lawn won, but I sure taught that tree a thong or two.”

I caused considerable amusement for some and an unfortunate mental image for others. You can’t please everybody.

Under the heading Waste Not Want Not.

This is the first picture I took of the cans. I include it here, because, in the true spirit of Tired Tuesday, I ain’t got much.

Full disclosure: My heroic tree branch efforts are not the reason for today’s tiredness. Still, it gave me something to type. I think I’ll close with a monster picture and call it a post.

You just knew it was going to be Nosferatu, didn’t you?

Sharon, Susan and a Swan

Posted on August 18, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

Steven has been wanting to get a picture of our Rose of Sharon in the back yard. I finally got one today and thought, hey, let’s do a Backyard Picture Post.

One day, I think, “No blooms this year.” The next day, “Wow!”

My mom gave me a shoot of her Rose of Sharon some years ago. Hers is enormous and gorgeous by now. Ours got mowed down a few times as a wee sprout. However, it grew back each time, better than before. First it was big enough so Steven noticed it and didn’t mow it down. Then it was so big he couldn’t have mowed it down if he tried! According to Steven, the plant was saying, “Mow ME down, will you?”

While I was taking the picture of the Rose of Sharon, I noticed the swan in our neighbors’ pool which Steven has been envying (I have been envying the pool myself).

The picture is a little dark, but I wanted to share the swan.

I had also been wanting to take another picture of our Black-eyed Susans, which are looking better and better.

I don’t know if you can see that a little Queen Anne’s Lace has worked it way in.

We originally purchased the Black-eyed Susans at a sale to benefit the Herkimer County Humane Society, back in 2011 (are you impressed that I remember the actual year? I am). They have gotten bigger and spread. Now they are battling it out with the chives for control of that little patch. While I was admiring them, I noticed some little yellow flowers behind the garage.

The little blooms look better in person, but if you want to stop over and see them, please call first.

I really need to clean out behind the garage, cutting down a pricker bush that is expanding to tree-like proportions. We just never see that part when we are sitting on the deck, and, you know how it goes: out of sight, out of what’s left of my mind. Then I remembered the Brown-eyed Susans, which grew with no input on our part.

The green shoots are part of some irises which are done blooming now.

The Brown-eyed Susans are growing in two places in our yard, so I took two pictures.

The green stuff in the background is the beginning of some trees that I need to get out from under my deck.

Some years ago, I read the Rudbeckia is a good plant for bees. Imagine my surprise when a guy at a greenhouse told me that Rudbeckia is Brown-eyed Susans. It sounds so much fancier!

So this is how pretty my yard looks in mid-August. I wonder what September will bring. Will it be worth a blog post? We’ll see.

Mohawk Valley Girl

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Back Yard Blues — I Mean Yellows

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Sharon, Susan and a Swan

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