Garden Food

From my backyard and side yard (raspberries), the veggie garden has turned out much better than I thought it would, this year.

Daisies!

They look a little spindly here, but they've reallly filled in and there are tons now! Hope they last long enough for my parents visit. My mom likes daisies too.

Raspberries!

Such a bumper crop of raspberries this year, like never before. Such a wonderful treat.

Backyard Daisies

Love 'em, they're finally blooming and it's wonderful!

More of the Boy

I've been compiling a couple presents for some Grandparents, and ran across some unseen older pix of the kids, I think I'll put them to good use here too.

We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Rose Post To Bring You Something Really Important...

Happy Birthday Danny!

The next photo is the first I've ever put on my site by another photog - but I thought I'd make an exception in this case since it was taken by my Daughter - of 3 yrs old.

Happy birthday to my wonderful Husband.

I'll Admit - I Like the Looks of Urban Decay

Except when its MY GARAGE. Someday we'll fix it up. For now, it serves its purpose.
But how nice is that fence? Nice right? Oh yeah it is.

Girly Girl Who Is A Girl

She isn't actually that girly - but she really looks like that here. Silly pouting Herself.

Big Project - Day 3 of Photos

In fence building mode. For how would one contain ones children without a fence? Ah, a nice fence designed by Hubby, he's pretty much the Superman of Fence Superintendents.

Big Project - Day 2 of Photos

Not however, the second day of working on the project.

Here is Himself, hard at work, and he really was doing work, well. I was very proud of him.

The Big Project

These shots gives you a pretty good look at how overgrown our backyard was. Those hedges and lilac bushes are like... 20 feet tall! Whoa. I mean, I like lilacs but really, I wanted a backyard the kids could hang out in and play in and bar-b-que and lounge in and I could say "Go outside kid, you're bothering me" (J/k on that one but YOU know what I mean.) And so, in May of 2006 we started our Big Project. Hubby hired a teenageer to take down most of the foliage - tho we did end up having a professional come in and remove the last of those lilacs. Quite beautiful they were, a really nice deep purple. But I can plant more if I want.

Anyway, this is the beginning. Stay tuned for further installments of... The Big Project.

One last note, these are not very good photos, however I did want to share how excited I am every day, to have a wonderful backyard. Stay tuned.

What is This Flower?

This flower bloomed in our backyard a couple weeks ago. It was pretty robust in the morning, but by mid-afternoon had drooped considerably. Its quite large, I'd say the purple pointy thing is about (is that the pistil?) about 12 inches long - so you can kind get a perspective of the size. And the color is pretty close too. Any ideas? Post them in the comments.

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer.

Bricks

Backyard Wildlife

These kids were waiting for Momma to come back with some grub, literally.

Oops, thats Dad feeding the kidlets.

First Photo

One of the first (and so far last) nice days in the Pacific Northwest, enjoying the lovely backyard and the sun.