Category Archives: gardening

In the garden

July 6, 2020gardening, naturesusanmanzke

Just took a quick walk in my yard to snap photos of blooming flowers.

Spots of color among the green.

New garden sink

June 18, 2020Family, gardeningsusanmanzke

It was delivered by UPS yesterday.

Not too hard to put together except for banging the fittings in place on the metal legs.

I thought this would come in handy when kids and grandkids are visiting. They could use this for washing up outside.

The trouble is that it just gushes water out the bottom, so if you are not careful, you’ll have wet feet–also the faucet swings about too easily so that could get you wet, too.

I’m trying to think of a way to add a bit of hose so I can direct the drain water into the flower bed or grass.

At least I got it together….I think. There’s usually something I didn’t do right, but I have faith that one of my kids will figure out where I went wrong.

Today I added a little color

June 10, 2020gardeningsusanmanzke

I took this photo a while back but didn’t post it.

I love irises. Too bad they don’t last all summer long.

I would not mind having them around longer, not just for the spring.

Too soon they are gone.

A little greenery

June 9, 2020gardeningsusanmanzke

Flowers are nice, but I also like some greenery.

Right now the ferns living around Sunnybook Farm are at their height of beautiful greenness.

They will not look prettier than they do today. So I thought I’d share a photo here.

Sometimes storms knock them to the ground, but I hope they will remain upright for the future weeks to come.

Ferns and hostas decorate the gardens here. It’s may not be easy being green, but green is a lovely color to enjoy.

Poppies

May 28, 2020gardeningsusanmanzke

I like poppies, but they never last long enough.

They come, popping out, and too soon they are gone.

Before the rain arrived today, I snapped two photos of my first poppies.

I can’t look at a poppy without thinking of the field of poppies in the Wizzard of Oz.

Good thing the Good Witch came by to wake Dorothy, Toto, and the lion.

Now I’m sitting and listening to the rain falling. It’s a beautiful sound when there are no storms attached.

I hope I got all my windows closed. I know I have one opened on the porch, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem right now. In fact, it is letting in cool air.

Rain is also a nice sound when it is nap time, but I hope it doesn’t last that long. We’ll see.

Susan Manzke

Writer, Speaker, All-Around Good Person