Learning to Fly

 While weeding my garden yesterday I found this little guy!

He is just so sweet and just learning to fly!

I believe he is a cardinal his daddy sure was looking after him.

You know I sure love the birds but they do make a mess in my yard!

Some more flowers.. this is a perennial geranium and it blooms most of the summer.

These are lily of the valley from my mothers yard.

She had a giant patch of these under a big old tree.

Wonder if they are still there or if the guy who bought her house got rid of them.

I should know the name of these but can not remember it.

Hate being old and forgetful!

I'm not sure what happened to the last two photos they are out of focus for some reason.  That white flower is a clematis.

Linking to:

Say G'day Saturday

Warm hugs,

Playing In The Dirt!

Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was such a beautiful day with the sun shining bright and warm! 

So I spent the day playing in the dirt!

See how bright the sun was ... here is my shadow!

These are some photos of my garden it is looking a little sad.

I did do a lot of clean up

A few daffodils are blooming!

This is in the front of my house

I do have alot of wild onions and I do hate them

they are so hard to get rid of

Found a box of daffodil bulbs I didn't plant last fall

put them in this planter...hope they bloom

then I'll plant them in the garden

Bought this cement planter at a garage sale last summer

More of that darn wild onion

They are hard to see but there are hundreds of

Rose of Sharon start ups

To me Rose of Sharon is like a bad weed!

I've even trim the bushes so they don't bloom but of course

they still do...then drop their seeds and all

these little starter pop up everywhere!

This is the very shady side of the house there is a bleeding heart

and ferns here - I'll be sure and show it to you

when they bloom!

I really only have a very small yard but it sure takes a lot of time

to keep up with all the garden stuff !

Found these on the Better Homes and Garden web site
they are Sombrero coneflowers WOW they are really beautiful!

Source: bhg.com via Shabby on Pinterest

These will really brighten up a garden!

Linking To:
Tuesday Garden Party
Thursday Favorite Things

This or That Thursday
Rural Thursday

Fertilizer Friday
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

Warm hugs,

Fertilizer Friday at Tootsie Time

It's been a great year for my garden! Maybe it's because I've been fertilizing like Tootsie said I should! Stop at Tootsie's and see the others participating this week. Last year I really trimmed this clematis back and look how beautiful it is this year. Clematis are one of my favorite vines.

These impatients are planted in an old two sides mop bucket.

After all the daisys and daylilies bloom that pretty much it for the perennials.

Hopefully the annuals really start to make a show.

This is my first tipsy pots when you run out of garden space go up.
Saw these tipsy pots at Cindees Garden and decided to give it a try.
Visit Cindees she has some fatastic tipsy pots!

Thanks for visiting this week. Enjoy the summer.

Warm wishes,