Hmmm someone was watching us from the house lol....making sure we got our exercise for the day!!! 

Me, jessi and chewy off to paddle around the lake a bit.... 

My babies.... 

Shoving off......... 

Finally u got my life preserver on me!!! (yes chewy loves to kyak!!) 

Whats taking so long? I'm waaaaaaaiting here... 

Its grub time....everything was sooooo good!!! 

I know ur thinking ....its just a daisy...look at all the detail in this one tiny flower God made for us to look at... 

Daisies are in bloom.......they are one of my favorite flowers...if not my most favorite...if u have any go outside and look at them under the moon.....they are just beautiful... 

One of the purple flag blooms (iris) 

the peonies are blooming (ant plants) 

I didnt catch the pink azalea in its peak....but this is it and some more iris bloomed 

Hey its Sunday typical traffic for my area!! 

So Close-Mary Mary

There's something in your yesterday that's keeping you away from him
making you believe what you've done he wont forgive
telling you that you're just too far from him
but there is something he wants u to know
that there's no road that u can travel to no place that's too far
cuz he's so close he can hear u breathing
hes so near he can wipe your tears
when your heart he knows its been broken
hes standing with his arms wide open
for so long hes been waiting everyday anticipating
for u to realize that hes so close to u
everybody knows sometimes we all make mistakes
and when u try to do what's right wrong gets in your way
u feel ur just a failure and u cant forgive yourself
but god can make it better if you only ask for help
there’s no road that u can travel to a place that's too far
hes so close he can hear u breathing hes so near he can wipe your tears
and your heart he knows its been broken he's standing with his arms wide open
for so long hes been waiting everyday anticipating for u to realize that hes so close to u
there's no road that u can travel to a place that's too far
cuz hes so close he can hear u breathing
hes so near he can wipe your tears
and your heart he knows its been broken
he's standing with his arms wide open
for so long hes been waiting everyday anticipating for u to realize that he's so close to you

It's looking much better with the mulch and the impatiens added (i know im gonna dig out those daisies once they bloom) I have this habit of leaving all the daisies grow (even where it should be mowed..joel wanted to take the weed wacker to it one year) but there will b daisies come up in the grassy part even..once they die off we will mow it...its so pretty and they glow in the moonlight (even though during the day it doesnt look so nice)....if you look back in there mowgli at the birdbath...I made a raised bed which is now covered in ivy....and believe it or not all that ivy came from 4 plants one on each corner!! 

Its not a good picture but this is an impatien...the area we worked on is basically all shade so these will provide color all summer (but its an annual) 

This is a new guinea impatien...they do well in the shade... 

this little perinial is tuff....its sandwort...see the little white flowers in amongst the ivy? Thats the sandwort...its a creeper...I thought I had gotten it all out of there, obviously i was wrong.... 

today we dug out all the columbine and ornamental grass and stuff that took over....I did leave a clump of daisies....i will take them out after they bloom ....I love daisies :) 

ok I had nothing to do with this....this is jessi's handiwork...this is our poor little chywbakka...or whats left of him 

all my begonias are in and the front is mulched (looks pretty kids thanks again) No comment on the dirt on my forehead...joe is laying in the yard dead from hauling all of the mulch,,,j/k :) 

I'm cutting down on the number of flowers I have this year...anyway...mowgli if u look close that pink flower is an impatien (they do better in shade or at least part shade), the white alyssum, next to that the flower with the pointy leaves is a portulaca...I just put a mixture in these...and I tend to watch to see what does better...u might have to do trial and error mowgli to see what works best in a certain area....one other thing dont put a pansy in the shade they will reach for the sun and get long, sticky and ugly looking...I love impatiens they are one of my personal favorites because they have pretty dainty flowers and stay compact and i have areas where there is alot of shade so they do well... 

if you look at that little container at the back it has purple assylum with a petunia sticking out the top....if u look at this other container the white flower you see is white assylum...that container has a spike backing too...the yellow is a petunia....this picture isnt great to point out what they are either 

ok I put a mixture in this container....you can see the boca better...its the one with the tiny white flowers which will fill out and spill over the side, there are purple and yellow pansies, a pink impatien, a portulaca, marigold (this is a african marigold that comes out in a cream color) alyssum in both purple and white and in the back sticking up is a spike, a potatoe plant...I will try to figure out how to point out each one as they get bigger and bloom... 

From this angle you can see the potatoe plant (the one with the variagated leaves) 

I dont know if u can see this really well mowgli but this is an impatien with some assylum (carpet of snow) believe it or not those two plants will fill this container soon...I sometimes use boca in these instead of the assylum because of the cascading effect....but I am cutting down on the amount of flowers i have this year....