The Shutterbug Returns

I got the camera charger from ebay yesterday, and spent the evening taking pictures of anything and everything. Here's a few winners: PART ONE: Gardening Improvements Remember that big pile of dirt we had delivered several weeks ago? Alfie does: Its out of our front yard now, and our flowerbeds are looking fabulous! We bought a park bench for the front yard as well, and we've been enjoying sitting on it in the evenings, enjoying the warm weather. Look how well our rose bushes are blooming! There are five of these bushes altogether, marking the boundary between our house and our neighbor's yard. We had a rose-related surprise last weekend... there's a bush growing behind the shed, in a part of the yard that we rarely venture into. As it happens, its a climbing rose bush that's gone wild... and hundreds of the most beautiful pink roses are blooming on it. Here's some I picked and put into a champagne-glass-vase... later, I added some lavender that is growing behind the house, and it smells fabulous! Here's another one of our flower beds out front... as you can see, while Rory is quite adept at making the flower beds, I'm not nearly as good at keeping the plants we put in them alive. But, whatever. The sun-crisped plant look is totally in. Our veggie patch: We're growing peas, spinach, several types of lettuce, herbs, tomatoes, an eggplant, and peppers. And we cannot keep Alfie out of it! This is our latest project... Rory has tilled up the dirt in the front of the yard and by the driveway (which you can't see). He's going to gravel it all and make a path and parking place. I think its going to look perfect!! Do you like the brick path he's laid through the flowerbed? That's so you can get from the parking spot to the lawn without going through the beds. Part two: Messing around with the dogs This is a very silly picture, but I like it. I was holding the camera away from me trying to get a picture of all three of us, but no luck... Alfie started biting at my hair at the last moment, and Harry looked around to see what he was doing. But this is a cute picture of Alfie. I turned it into the "Pet of the Month" contest, and hope to win a $50 gift certificate (see my new obsession with contests). One more cute shot: And a close up of Harry. Harry had to go to the vet on Wednesday... he was hurting and wouldn't let us pick him up or even touch him. The vets did an ultrasound and decided he has Pancreatitis... so he's on a low-fat, no-treat diet from here to eternity. And its not cheap. That's all for today!!