Garden Update and a bit of the usual other stuff

 Most of the two dozen+ perennials I added to my little backyard garden strip are surviving, and some are even blooming, along with the roses I planted last year.  Yay!  And the roses out front, which came with the house, are also doing quite splendidly:

Pippin likes to check out the plants in the back yard from time to time:

Here is one of the roses I planted last year:

I'm afraid I've forgotten what this perennial is...I tossed all the labels....

Another rose that I planted is a floribunda called "Carefree Wonder":

One morning while inspecting the garden, I ran across this delightful little critter -- it's a jumping spider, and I do mean little, because this is way zoomed in.  I don't think it was even half an inch long.

Here is the clematis:

And here is Pippin relaxing in the garden:

More flowers are slowing starting to bloom so there will be another update soon.

And now for the Usual Other Stuff:  here is a drawing of an alleyway on the island of Santorini:

And here is an ink-and-watercolor sketch of some badlands area of unknown location:

And now for not-so-usual stuff:  on Thursday I drove to Yakima (about an hour away) to check out a used bookstore.  It was fabulous:

They also had a lot of antiques mixed in:

Parts of it reminded me of Aziraphale's bookshop in Good Omens.  I liked it very much, and bought a few books (though I didn't get any of the antiques).

Back to the more usual stuff:  wiener group walks!  On Saturday the dachshund club walked at Chiawana Park in Pasco, while one of the riverboats sailed past:

Pippin's girlfriend was out of town, but we met a new dog:  a longhaired blond named Winston!  

Truman's best buddy up in Seattle is also a longhaired blond dachshund named Winston.  How cool is that?  Pippin liked him, too:

So that was fun.  

And that's my report.

May you all have as usual or unusual a week as you want to have!