CAPTURING AUTUMN IN A LAMPWORK BEAD

Natures beauty has always been something I am very fond of, maybe that's why I love gardening so much...maybe that's why I spend alot of time outdoors period!

 

What could be better then hiking a wilderness trail in the fall just to capture the beauty in your minds eye so it can be put on a piece of glass.

 

My husband and I have an in home Lamp working business.  We capture each season as we see it, for others, as a wearable piece of art.  Hope you enjoy these....

 

Autumns end apple tree

Autumn beauty

Peaceful bluebird

Winter Cardinal

Lilac tree

Midnite moon

beautiful butterfly

Autumn Pumpkin Patch

Windswept pumpkin patch

Roosting Robins

Thanksgiving turkey

Majestic monarch

 

Thanks for looking!

 

If anyone is interested in seeing more of these beauties, just pick the bead on the right hand side of the page at the top of the blog!

 



WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

AUTUMNS BEAUTY

Here's a beautiful collection of fall photos that my husband took.  They are too irresistible to not share!

Hope you enjoyed these as much as I did...Thanks hubby!

STOCKING UP FOR WINTER

So as we put the gardens to sleep for the winter and do the last bit of clean up, I wonder to myself if I will survive the long winter.  I guess I wonder that every year as this time approaches!

 

I was laid up with a bad leg most of the summer so I feel shafted out of a season plus it was so dry here the gardens just withered away......But.......

I HAVE BIG PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR!

 

I'm stocking up....yup, getting ready so to speak, with great new Ideas.  I'm going to be busy  busy, researching new plants and Ideas.

 

This is what gets me threw the harshness of winter.  Yes they are only books but to a gardener they are more then that, these chase my winter blues away! Every gardener knows what im talking about.

 



These are my new gardening encyclopedias....I'm not into clothes, shoes, jewelry, etc....I'm a book junkie!

 

These Garden Gate Magazine's are the best ever!

 

And of course we get Birds and Blooms AND Birds and Blooms extra which my hubby loves to read so I told him I ordered them for him (hehehe)

I'm feeling pretty good about the up coming dread of winter...I think I'm going to be just fine....Oh and Ill be cooking from my new veggie cookbook too!

Isn't she a beauty!

 

 



SUMMER UPDATES

Hi everyone, hope your summer has been awesome.  My summer was going along so good until I got a stress fracture in my tibia and ended up wearing this boot up to my knee until now.  My gardening kinda came to a halt since it was hard to do anything...except sit and rest my aching leg and having my husband preach at me about it!

My boot is finally off for small stretches during the day and I am able to check out a few more things going on in the gardens.  It was so hot and humid here this year which is not the usual weather by Lake Michigan and my pond did not fair well with the constant algae bloom going on....it never did seem to balance itself out this year.  We tryed everything natural that we could and nothing worked....Never had this problem.

frog on a lily pad

The pond didn't fair out so well

Peas and beans growing nicely, until the hot spell came

There are still a few flowers left in the garden but most everything else has came and went...it was a very fast growing season.

As September fast approaches and my leg gets better each day, I do look forward to my favorite fall season and being hopefully in tiptop shape next year!





PARIDISE ON EARTH!

Need I say More?

POND UPDATE

The bullfrog tadpoles and our pond snails arrived this week, to say we were excited is an understatement!

13 tadpoles made it here alive.

Here my husband is releasing them

Some had legs, some didnt

Trapdoor snails

We also added 6 new Koi to the pond and some new plants...everything is looking good and the algae bloom is almost gone.  It has been cool here this week and feels like fall but is suppose to warm back up this weekend.   I dont mind alittle cool as long as things still grow,,,nothing will keep me from my gardens! 



Things are looking up in the garden....finally!

Finally things are starting to warm up a bit and I was able to do more outdoor gardening.  My seedlings had gotten so big in the house, that even thought it might not be as warm as the plants like, I had to stick a few in the ground.  So far so good, they are holding there own.  I am also hardening off a few in the green house.

My planter radishes are almost ready to eat.

Coleus cuttings from last October, they got huge!

Hardening off the tomatoes

One of the overwintered geraniums

My helper, Rudy

Peas

Beets

Zucchini

Herbs

Hope everybody is enjoying there gardens too!