What started as a fun visit to one of my favorite spots in St. Paul, has turned into a post I’d like to dedicate to a friend who just died. I had posted one of my orchid photos on facebook and there was a message from a mutual friend letting me know that our dear … More A visit to the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park, St. Paul
This week’s theme from Jakesprinter is my favorite season. Click the link to see more great entries this week. Here’s a collection of autumn scenes in Minnesota.
I have a yard full of all kinds of lilies. Here are but some that have bloomed or are blooming now. I think I like the red one the best. Which one’s your favorite?
A near perfect weekend at the cabin in the woods in northern Minnesota. It was made less perfect by yet another horrible drive out of town Friday afternoon. I wrote about our first trip of the year to our cabin recently and we had hoped to avoid the traffic jam of last trip by taking … More Sunset – 11th Crow Wing Lake, Akeley, Minnesota
We were up at the cabin this weekend and I got some cool shots of trees’ reflections in the lake. Here’s an actual tree: Here are two different reflections, one with part of the bottom of the tree in the pic and one without any of the tree (just its reflection) in the pic:
There’s alot going on in my garden right now and there are some really beautiful things blooming as well. Here are but a few pics of them along with our veggie(but mostly fruit as it happens) garden. The mailbox garden with Stella D’oro day lilies, tiger lilies and moonbeam coreopsis: Stella D’oro up close and … More Early summer blooms and plants
UPDATE: I originally posted this a year ago June. It’s now July 2013. It was one of the posts that contained broken links so I’ve revived this post with photos of our egret of last year. I thought of it because we have not seen its return this year. I’m glad I got the photos … More Neighborhood egret
travels with toby 