Catch up, part 3

More catching up! Warning: 2nd picture is of bugs!!!

For as much as I love lilies, I can never seem to get a pic I'm satisfied with! I thought this was a great close-up of the "innards" of the flower.


WARNING: BUGS!!! I mentioned in an earlier post that we get these bugs all over the buds on the rose bushes. They don't seem to do much (well, except creep me out), so we just kinda let them be. Here's a bunch of them on new growth on the plant--not quite a bud yet.

We have a huge vegetable garden each year. Last summer (yes, 2008!) we tried our hand at onions, starting them from onion sets. They grew, but didn't really produce anything worth picking. So we let a bunch of them go. All winter, all spring. They're finally to a size worth picking and cutting up! This is what the tops looked like in mid- to late-spring. This thing burst open and had a "flower" on top--lots of little white balls. DH thought maybe that's where onion seed comes from? They're still happily growing in the garden. We're hoping they make it into stew or something at the end of THIS season (2009).

The bud of a Star Gazer lily, by far my favorite type of lily.

There is a lone climbing rose bush on the fencline with the irises. I usually don't pay it much attention, but this year, they clustered so nicely. This shot reminds me of my grandmother. (She had "stinky roses" next to her garage...oh the scent, and big, beautiful blooms!)

This house seems to provide one project after another. This year has brought the beginnings of a new electrical panel and service. And DH being DH, decided he wanted electric in his shed. OK. (But DH being DH (an electrician), wanted to run it underground.) So he rented this machine, to dig the trench allllll the way around the yard. It was fun to watch. Not so fun to get the grass to grow again. (Follow-up....the trench in the front yard is STILL not filled in, 7 weeks later!, because the electric company took its sweet time in making up its mind about the telephone pole out front. Argh. So tired of jumping over piles of dirt!!! Hopefully this week it will FINALLY be filled in...) This machine made a trench about 30 inches deep and about 6 inches wide....just enough to be a pain, but not enough to lose a small child in!