SOME OLD, SOME NEW

Here are some OLD dolls from the past.  They are sitting on a quilt that I made a few years ago done completely by hand.  It has a good home with my daughter; looks like the dolls are happy.

This is a  NEW sweater  I started knitting recently.  Hopefully I will have it finished by the end of the summer.

This is Alyssa, my great granddaughter - what a sweet smile.  She is my grandson Peter's daughter.

This is Sophia, also one of my great granddaughters.  She is my granddaughter Anna's daughter; they live in Perth, Australia.  This is the "uniform" they wear to school.  She isn't particularly happy about the hat, but it is necessary to protect delicate skin from the hot Australian sun.

Another great granddaughter - Maddison lives in California.  She is my Grandson Lee Danielson's daughter.

I will show my great grandsons another time.

Although I have never met these great children, but  I'm looking forward to it perhaps the summer of 2015.

It's time don't you think?

Checking the flowers on the patio

Blossom is inspecting the patio garden, patiently waiting for the screen door to open so she can go out and get a better look!

These are the poppies and my small rock garden at O'Toole's Garden Center this spring.

A new addition to the Sterne Park 

spring into spring

Happy Face cut onto a tree that was cut down at the park

The Three Muskateers on the lake in Littleton

patio gardening

Hybrid Perpetual (Lacharme, 1865)

ALFRED COLOMB

A little parsley and chives for cooking

Jackami Clematis

Peonies and Clematis at my garden in O'Toole's

Peonies

 

Iris surrounded by Catmint

 

Sweet smelling Peonies

 

Clematis just beginning to bloom

 

Peonies

 

 

This was taken with the sun shining through the curtain.  I like it!!!

 

 

spring and summer gardening

My favorite roses are Sexy-Rexy (the rose-colored) and Graham Thomas, the sweet smelling yellow roses

The blue Clematis will bloom from early Spring until late June

                                      This red poppy puts on quite a show in the garden

Tribute to my Mother

My Mother as a young woman - so pretty!!!

My Mother grew up on a farm in Minnesota, the youngest of eight children.  She later married by Dad and they moved to Beardsley, Minnesota and later to Ortonville, Minnesota where my Dad was Big Stone County auditor for many years.

My Mother taught me to love gardening and flowers which is my passion to this day.  One of her favorite flowers was the peony and it is also my favorite.



She spent many hours teaching me how to knit which I do today.  I made many, many scarves and later a few afghans.  I have graduated to socks and sweaters.

I miss her this Mother's Day