Drama Queens.....

In the previous post I mentioned Crambe cordifolia.... It's leaves can be 2-3' and the plant is 5-6' tall... Often called Giant Baby's Breath or Sea Kale.... Usually hardy zones 5-9 and I have mine in a protected area. It loves full sun and does NOT like wet soil so my garden with no supplemental water is perfect... The tiny honey-scented flowers bloom in early summer...

I love these huge drama queens and they can bring a small garden or area to new heights... There are only a few giant perennials I can grow here but I have them all and will share them as they come into bloom.. I love anything taller that I am...

Since the sheep ate my crambe to the ground they will take a bit to recover.... I let the blooms dry on the plant and they make a nice fall feature... Warning though..... they will root rot if planted in a too moist area....keep on the dry side...

May's BJP progress

I did get started on May's BJP while I was in Alaska but I have no hopes of getting it done by the end of the month... I have 2 other projects that need to be postmarked before May 31 and this can wait and be late. Stitching time is practically nonexistent this month competing with absolute necessary outside chores...

We have both the Western Bluebird and the Mountain Bluebird in our area.. It is usually the red-breasted Western Bluebird that have nested here although I haven't seen any this year.


A nice note today...the double columbine are blooming and so are two of the species clematis...which are finally becoming more available.. I saw signs of growth on my very-difficult-to-transplant Harison rose and all the herbaceous clematis have survived (which are rarely seen on the market) and I want to transplant them closer to house so I can enjoy them but have no idea WHERE!!!



There are spectacular small-flowered clematis and if you choose wisely you can have blooming clematis from May to October. My absolute favorite is "Duchess of Albany"

And when the sheep got out while I was gone they ate all my wonderful Crambe to the ground....hopefully it will recover as it is one of the big and bold plants I adore...

Well-traveled Block.....

Lisa's encrusted block took an exceptionally long time to get here and then I got right on a plane with it. The airline stewardesses love it... Except for the lace arbor all the work was done either in planes or airports.... 3 planes coming and going.... In fact I took the very last stitch on the very last bee just as the plane landed in Spokane. (a total of 20 hours in planes and airports)

This morning I beaded and added the rose button... Usually I bead the rose buttons with either pink, gold or pearl. This was the first time with green and I kinda like it..

Instead of color, I uses the daisies to move the eye from the lower right up to the upper right and the bees to keep it moving across... Lisa has two bunnies to boot!!!! It's off to Ritva in Finland tomorrow...just a tad late...

Destroying the bowl is proper puppy etiquette!

I took this photo of Morris this morning as it's his 3-month birthday.... He gave me a royal welcome home with lots of kisses all the way home from the airport. He hasn't left my side all day today...

This picture was taken just two weeks ago so you can see how quickly he is losing his puppy face. It is puppy etiquette that if someone gives you a treat in a paper bowl, you must destroy the bowl.

It's a mother thing!!!

I hesitate to label my son a "computer geek" but I think anyone who has to have 8 screens qualifies... I made great fun of him when he set this all up but I have to admit that it's fun to have a lot of my favorite sites up at once... (Notice Susan that yours is bottom right)... And this is the purpose of my visit...computer stuff...

He is incredibly busy during the season so he wants to transfer most of the computer web work to me in Spokane. He's building a new website and we needed to figure out ways to transfer photos so I can edit them in Photoshop . It's no problem to send just a few but transfer one hundred or more at a time is something else....

Before he burned them on a CD and sent them by FedEx Express to me... Now we have Picasa set up on his computer so he can send them via the Internet daily... In addition there will be a photo cam at the fish rack so I can load daily catches from my computer to You Tube. I've also been busy critiquing the new site...

We still have some glitches to work out but it's so much easier doing it here rather than by phone.. Now I begin the long journey home and will arrive at about 10pm and will be so glad to hug Morris (and DH and Molly too.)