I mowed the front yard this morning. It wasn't so hot and the grass under the locust tree was getting tall. When I took a rest afterwards I mowed the back yard also. This is the first time that I have been able to mow the entire yard in one day in four years. I hired it done for two years in the middle of all that time. I am tired but I did it.
Both of my neighbors mowed their yards in a diagonal pattern. I do every once in a while but I also mow mine in a contour pattern. It matches the front raised stone garden next to the house. I also like to do it because it reminds me of my dad's work as a farmer as he would plant things in contour patterns around his hilly southern farm fields. Mowing it this way is my protest against trying to make it look like a football field or gold course.
My front yard flower bed is looking so bad. The petunias seem to have gone dormant and this hardy geranium has one single bloom. I stopped watering as we did get some rain but I guess I should have kept watering things.
It was time to pick new zinnias for indoor bouquets. I have two sprigs of glads blooming again. The glads are not doing well as I have only had three stems of flowers from the dozens of bulbs that I have planted.
It is nice to be able to view the garden flowers up close even though I do go out and see them daily. I keep seeing butterflies and a goldfinch eating at the zinnias but I never have the timing right to do it. My wife would think it rude if I left the supper table to go take a butterfly photo.
Thanks for stopping by today.
That bottom photo is amazing.......are those Gladioli? I've never seen that coloration ! My flowers succumbed mostly to July's heat. We're getting plenty of rain now, but it's Crape Myrtle and Jerusalem Artichoke's time to shine now in my yard.
ReplyDeleteI get what you're saying about the mowing. I have an acre and a third, and using a self-propelled walk-behind mower, I generally have to do the front yard one day and the back another. I admit that I tend to let the backyard go longer due to it being 'hidden', and the fact that moss is overtaking a good portion of it making it difficult to tell where I've mowed and where I haven't.
But I've let a week go by, with rain, this time, and the bit of backyard that I mowed is trying to catch up with the part that I neglected ! Better get after that, but you know me........I'd rather be sewing/quilting !
Your place always looks nice. I'm glad that you're able to do some more yourself again.
There is no rhyme or reason how I mow, but it is a rider so I would have mowing marks all over. I would flunk golf courses or sports fields:)
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