Monday, May 30, 2022

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!


2 comments:

  1. I think the pink flowering plant you don't remember the name of is what we call "Ballard flowers" because they seem particularly popular in that neighborhood. I comment to warn you that they put down very tenacious roots and spread madly; you may want to keep an eye on them so they don't take over. (And if you ever stumble across the label, do share what they're actually called!)

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    1. thank you for the warning. I did notice some recently on the riverbank growing wild, which gave me pause. I'm not sure they would be able to spread in my tiny garden -- I put them between a spirea and a lilac. Guess I'll just have to wait and see...yay.

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