It’s Alive!

I don’t remember if I posted photos or not, but my roses had a mysterious malady.

That’s from early on. I tried a bunch of green, friendly remedies and by the fourth of July I had about six black, pockmarked leaves left.

The guys at Earl May said it was a fungus and sold me 30$ worth of spray. A month later, I am happy to report that it worked!!!

Not only are the leaves back and beautiful, but it finally flowered – which it hasn’t done since June.
Though it was the worst effected, all the roses except the brand new ones were in bad shape. The yellow rose was another one I was afraid of losing but…

It has a bloom too! Yes, I have now learned a valuable lesson: screw home remedies, just go for the real stuff to start with.
And now I have to get up at five a.m. – for a surprise – so I’m off to bed.
Have a good one!
Jo 🙂

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New Photos – Walking The Creek

 

(Warning: Lots of photos!)

These are a continuation of yesterday’s, in that they are from the same outing. What actually happened was we went to the gun range (Which is on a nature preserve, apparently!), but it was full up and people waiting (it’s a small one), so we got bored and wandered down a trail that was nearby. It went for some ways through a large pasture:

Pasture

After twenty minutes or so we turned off and cut through some undergrowth down a deer path and came to the most beautiful, clean creek I have seen since… well, I’m not sure when the last time was I saw one this clean and clear:

like glass

no trash!?!?!?!?!

Of course, to get the really good photos you have to actually stand IN the creek….

STanding in the middle of the creek

But then there’s the problem of wet shoes. Who wants to walk all the way back to the car with wet, slippy, slidy shoes? So hubby proposed a brilliant idea; just wade up the creek all the way back. So, we did. After all, it was only ankle deep:

it’s only ankle deep…..

I did warn hubby, though, that sometimes ankle deep creeks suddenly go deep. This one was no exception

Even with the tree it looks deceptivly shallow….

but not so!

But we got some neat photos, anyway:

green leaves

Yes, I am obsessed with hoe clear it is!

like a little cove

just pretty

water ripples

found this along the bank (and no, I didn’t take it home. Thought about it, though, but bones don;t keep well. They kinda fall apart after a couple of years 😦 )

like a mirror

water

Creepy Tree roots

water ripples

in a fallen log

wicked roots

green

Awesome roots

more evil roots (I blame LC Cooper’s book Legacy, completely!)

neat rocks

a baby bunny

Mama was right there, too, and the minute she saw us she started bouncing all over, trying to get us to chase her instead. Little did she realize we wanted a bunny that was standing still.  I had to zoom in as far as I could and still had to crop the photo way down, hence the not so super quality. Oh well, he was so cute!

And then we found the exit which, oddly enough, led right up to the parking lot! Talk about perfect!

The whole trek lasted well over an hour and in all the time the only trash we found was one rusty tin can caught in some tree roots, part of a clay pigeon and some lead shot (those were both up by the exit, which as I mentioned leads right up to the exit). It was a surreal experience, for sure!

song playing at the moment – Anthem for the Underdog – 12 Stones

Photos: Arizona Trees

(originally from January 2008)

 

My mother and I were invited to Arizona for a week to visit my cousins Theresa and June. It was the first time I was ever out of the midwest (not counting babyhood trips), as well as my first time on a plane. I went berserk documenting it and, though I won’t share all the photos, there are some fun ones.

I have a tree fetish, and I don’t just mean the palm trees. check my Flickr and you’ll see hundreds of photos of trees. Trees are just awesome. So, here are some more.

OMG! It’s a lemon AND an orange tree!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice mix

I never did get to pick an orange 😦

More tomorrow! (yeah, I milked this!)

Photos: Arizona Cactus and Such

(originally from January 2008)

 

My mother and I were invited to Arizona for a week to visit my cousins Theresa and June. It was the first time I was ever out of the midwest (not counting babyhood trips), as well as my first time on a plane. I went berserk documenting it and, though I won’t share all the photos, there are some fun ones.

Just boring people with cactuses…or whatever the plural of that is. Cacti maybe? Hmmmm…. anyway and a few other plants…

Cam-o-flaug-ey – ha ha!

Plant or tree?

Cotton!!!

More tomorrow (oh this trip will never end! Bwahahaha!)