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The iris are blooming at McCrorey gardens at SDSU in Brookings. I help weed them once a week for one hour. It’s amazing how many weeds 8 to ...

  The flowering crab apple trees are in full bloom here. The next strong wind it will look like a snowstorm of white and pink petals. The wa...

 One day last week I looked through my old sketchbooks, I have a pile. This page sparked memories of the day I sketched the pasque flower. O...

  The iris crew weeded the iris Tuesday six women worked for one hour and filled a large leaf bag. Then we sat on our buckets in the tulips ...

  Cheap souvenirs for me taking pictures of flowers. --Ann--

  I think the iris were at their peak bloom yesterday when the iris crew was there to work.  Many more blooms than last week. We mostly dead...

Isn't that a great word for not getting anything done!  Spuddle......like combining spinning my wheels and muddled or befuddled state of...

Not much blog worthy going on in my life. Oh wait that’s because I have been reading.  Some have been very good books and some just ok. This...

Nothing says let’s party! It’s spring! Like a bunch of daffodils and rabbits.  —Ann—

  These poppies are so slow stitiching even on the machine.  I am using the heavy buttonhole stitch I did try the lighter version of the sti...

 One row is almost done still have all those leaves to stitch. This may be a very slow project. —Ann

 Another block done! But I think it needs a ribbon or a bow around the stems I'm thinking yellow.  I’m not going to meet my goal of comp...

 I dug this out of the closet because I thought I was going to need a little go project but we didn't need to go so instead I have been ...

 I think iris are the most elegant of flowers.  They are blooming in mass at McCrory Gardens where I help tend them.  --Ann--

  The flowering crabapple trees have been magnificent this spring now that spring has made it clear it’s her time to shine. The city plante...

 Peonies always make me think of my mother, she planted Memorial Day peonies all around her house, my oldest son lives in the house no...

I slept late the other morning, there were four digits on the clock -- that late. I took my coffee to the deck to soak up some vitamin D, ...

I don't think there is anything that says August better than sunflowers except maybe sweet corn.        ...