The Garden In Bloom

Posted by Gwen on Saturday, April 28, 2007 with 2 comments

Today is the bi-annual garden tour for our local garden club. We may be a small town (less than 2000), but we do have some beautiful gardens. I suppose that most folks around here are farmers helps, but nonetheless, it is a very enjoyable day. Some day I hope to have my yard on the tour, but I still have a long way to go before it is ready for the tour.

However, I do have some of the most amazing foxgloves anyone could want. Right now most of them are 6 feet tall and many of them will get taller before they finish their blooming period. Yesterday I was able to snap this photo and was really pleased with myself for getting it! Knitting is fun -- but so is gardening!
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Iris Are Blooming

Posted by Gwen on Friday, April 13, 2007 with No comments

I have always loved Irises. In particular the Tall Bearded variety. I am sure that it has something to do with the fact that they come in a huge number of variations. Mom and I have brought and traded over the years and I have finally decided to try to track what I have!

I am taking pictures, laminating them and securing them in the ground next to the plant. That way, when I divide them I know what I am dividing and I can keep the ones I want and give away or throw out the rest.

This picture is of a variety called SkyLab (guess when it was developed)! It is definitely one I want to keep -- I have always liked it. Interestingly enough, it was a freebie with a gift I purchased for my mother some years back. Sometimes you just get lucky!

End of Ski Season

Posted by Gwen on Friday, April 06, 2007 with No comments
Well -- ski season is just about to come to an end. I was up on the mountain yesterday and actually taught a couple of classes, but the snow is getting thin and just as I was leaving a RAIN storm started up. They are hoping to be open through next weekend, but I am not sure that is really going to happen.

It has been a fun year and I hope to doing the part-time ski instructing thing again, but I wish it didn't clash with "knitting season". I have already got almost every weekend in January already booked for 2008. That is a good thing -- but it cuts into my skiing time. Maybe if I just didn't enjoy life quite so much, had fewer interests and was a bit more boring -- NOT!

Poetry Day

Posted by Gwen on Sunday, April 01, 2007 with 1 comment
Not too long ago I discovered a great blog site from a children's writer called Gotta Book The thing that got me there was a new form of poetry he coined called Fibs which he described one year ago today. This poetry based on the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8) starting out with 0 and 1 adding them together to get the next number in the sequence. So in honor of Poetry Day, here is my first Fib:

Math
Geek.
Don't get
Poetry.
But I like these Fibs.
Even I can have fun with them!