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08.24.2005 :: Dim the lights! We have a flower show for you!
I could show you some knitting, but it would be unimaginative. It's almost the same as before with the addition of a few rows.
Since I have to fill space, how about the topic of conversation will be flowers?
The second annual Dahlia tour:
My elderly neighbor started planting dahlia's one year. He faithfully lifts them out of the ground every fall and replants the bulbs in the spring. He started with a few and now has hundreds. HUNDREDS.
This is one side of his house:
And this is the other:
So, here are a few of my favorite dahlia's, summer 2005 edition.
Hydrangeas are pretty too! These are mine. The bush has grown HUGE this year and I'm loving it!
Flower show has now ended.
Raspberry talk:
On the way home from the grocery store, I was hit with the hungry horrors. You know the kind. Where you could polish off a bag of chips in a flash? Or cookies? Gone. Long gone. It's dangerous eating at it's finest, crumbs flying as you drive down the road towards home. This time I decided to eat a couple of the raspberries that I bought, buy one get one free. As I arrived home, I realized that I had finished all the raspberries. One whole package, gone. It was not a huge package, but nonetheless.
It was worth it.
My taste buds are happy. Very happy.
Posted by Sandy on 08.24.2005 AT 04:58 PM
Comments
Happy Birthday Sandy!
The flowers are beautiful.
Posted by: Karen on 08.26.2005 AT 12:06 PM
I love love love dahlias and hydrangeas! Thanks for the pics!
Posted by: LeAnne on 08.26.2005 AT 11:48 AM
Happy belated birthday (you can thank NORma for outing that info!). Are you sure your neighbor didn't plant all those lovely flowers just for your annual celebration of life?
Posted by: Gina on 08.26.2005 AT 11:37 AM
Happy Belated Birthday!
Posted by: Rebecca on 08.26.2005 AT 11:22 AM
Those dahlias are amazing. The flower show is well worth the effort your neighbor puts in. Happy birthday!
Posted by: Rachel on 08.26.2005 AT 11:16 AM
Happy Birthday! Those dahlis are gorgeous.
Posted by: Lauren on 08.26.2005 AT 10:28 AM
Happy belated birthday to you!
Posted by: Maureen on 08.26.2005 AT 10:28 AM
Happy belated birthday! Hope you had a great day!
Posted by: Cara on 08.26.2005 AT 09:50 AM
Happy Birthday (yesterday:-()!!!!!
You are so sneaky. We just wanna give you a little love. It's wonderful to know you and have your freindship!
Posted by: margene on 08.26.2005 AT 08:12 AM
Happy Birthday, Sandy!!!! :)
Posted by: Donna on 08.25.2005 AT 04:50 PM
You know, I just decided yesterday that I had to plant some dahlias next year. Now I am even more certain.
Posted by: Martha on 08.25.2005 AT 10:22 AM
Wow! Can you imagine the commitment it takes to dig them up when the last thing you want to do is garden? I mean! Then to plant them all again, it is just......I need to take a break.
Posted by: Teresa C on 08.25.2005 AT 09:49 AM
OMG!!! Flower paradise!!!
Posted by: Alysia on 08.25.2005 AT 12:15 AM
I love that curly pink dahlia. I've never seen one quite like that. My boys ate 1/2 pint of blackberries on the way home from Kroger today. We love fresh fruits too. Yum!
Tanya
Posted by: Tanya on 08.24.2005 AT 11:14 PM
Love the flower pictures...they are just gorgeous. That mitten is really coming along. I hae been meaning to ask you....A lond time ago ,you mentioned making the "Logan" mitten from Moosely Mitts. I have been trying for months to locate that pattern. My LYS do not carry them anymore. Do you remember where you purchased that pattern. Maybe they stopped printing their patterns. I did pick up the "Waterfall" mitten pattern.
Posted by: Maureen on 08.24.2005 AT 09:46 PM
What a lovely garden! I LOVE raspberries -- those containers are small, right??
Posted by: Kathy on 08.24.2005 AT 09:39 PM
Those dahlias! The thing that keeps me from growing them, though I love them dearly, is the lifting. I just KNOW I wouldn't do it in the fall. Sad, really. Glad it was raspberries and not chips!
Posted by: Norma on 08.24.2005 AT 09:00 PM
OOOh! I LOVE Dahlias! What an undertaking. So many to choose from!
Glad you satisfied your cravings.
Posted by: Cara on 08.24.2005 AT 08:43 PM
Wow! More than profusion. An embarrassment of riches. Beautiful!
Posted by: Laurie on 08.24.2005 AT 08:38 PM
Beautiful!!
Posted by: Melanie on 08.24.2005 AT 08:30 PM
How beautiful! My fave is the first one, although those clean white flowers sure are nice too. What a neighborhood :)
Posted by: Vicki on 08.24.2005 AT 08:27 PM
Wow---hydrangeas. You lucky chick--they just won't grow here.
Posted by: Kim on 08.24.2005 AT 06:56 PM
Wow! What gorgeous flowers :)
Posted by: Sarah on 08.24.2005 AT 05:34 PM
Ha ha ha Happy birthday! Thought you could be sly, eh? Nooooooooo......
Posted by: Laurie on 08.26.2005 AT 01:26 PM