Summer Project

I actually had a picture of some spider monkeys from the Riverview Zoo saved to my desktop, intending to use it as my picture of the week, but I was talking to one of my sisters earlier in the week and she was asking about our “new” back yard.

I reminded her that I did a blog post about it (actually a two part post that you can find HERE and HERE . However, when I went back and checked out these posts, I realized I never posted a picture of the finished deck, yard, and pool as a whole.

So here you go, first the pool and deck (just click on it to make it bigger):

And here’s the pond garden and back patio with the fire pit (which isn’t really a pit, but it’s not a chiminea either):

Sweet Pea

Today's picture of the week is one I took last year on a visit to the local ecology garden. I picked it because the sweet pea is my favorite flower. Ironically, it's the one flower I've never had success with in my garden.

A couple of years ago I planted sweet pea seeds and nothing happened. But the next year I had plants spring up that took right over the small garden . . . and never bloomed. They did, however, start choking out the bedding plants I'd painstakingly planted. And boy howdy they were hard to get rid of. All attempts to pull the vines up failed. I think the roots went right down to the center of the earth. So I love sweet peas . . . as long as someone else grows them for me.