Blurry or Not!

 The house finches have not been frequent visitors this summer. They are so red in early spring but they are now even fading a bit. 

 I walked around a bit this morning in spite of the cold and shots photos. I was really surprised to see this wild violet in bloom. It was in direct sun and under the deck where it was keeping a little bit warmer. 

 I like the berries that form on the red twig dogwood. The birds are not eating on them yet as I think they need to get riper before they like them.

 All of the iris that I transplanted look so great. I like seeing that even the scrap small pieces of rhizomes are rooted down and shooting up leaves. I don't know what will happen next spring but I hope a few of them will put out some blooms. I know that a lot of the time they do not bloom after being moved until the second season. 

 I don't know if it is called reblooming or if the hibiscus is doing late blooming. This whole branch as many buds to produce flowers. I am think the freeze of the near future will stop that for sure. 

 I like them but I know that they have taken over the whole plot. I will have to take the sunflowers down as they are spent. I have been cutting away at the glories base so they are losing their places to grow. I found about six or more tomatoes on the one plant on the left. With my one eye surgery complete I can now see where they are. I thought I was done with them but they are behind all of the leaves. 

 After my cataract surgery I was told not to lift things. I did spend some time on my knees this morning anf finished planting the last nine tulip bulbs. I gave away eight or more as I was getting tired of planting them. I am having a struggle with one bad eye that needs glasses and one very good corrected eye that doesn't and won't tolerate looking through the old glasses. The early morning time is good as I am not so bothered by the fight but by noon I am going crazy with one bad one and one good one. I watched tv last night with a shirt placed over my bad eye. I can't believe how bad the lens had become as my whole world was being yellowed out. Next Monday I will have the other one corrected. I will see if my face gets beat up as much as this first procedure did. I looked like I was in a fist fight with the machine that they clamp on your face is secured so as  to allow the other devices to work to change the lens. It is an all new world for me as I have been severely near sight since fourth grade,1960.

Tomorrow is another day. Thanks for stopping by today. 

Blurry and Focused

 

 

It turned colder in the night. It didn't bother the morning glories to be cold as more than usual were blooming this morning. I will know for certain when we get frost as the leaves on these vines will be gone.

 I wandered the  backyard with a different visual view. I had one of my cataracts removed yesterday. The strong white light is so amazing as I was seeing everything with yellowed tint which cause low light. I was having such a problem before in editing photos as I wasn't sure things were focus. I will have the left eye corrected next Monday. Not only am I seeing better colors but I am seeing more things. I found eight more tomatoes on the vine this morning when I was out wandering.    

 

In the front yard I found a canna that is a late bloomer.  I was thinking I will need to dig them soon.

The mums are looking good. I did try to move all of these to the back yard but it will maybe be moved by next spring. I inherited these and I didn't like how the were coming up everywhere.    

                                                                                                                           

      The problem with having one eye corrected that I have one that is not. I am seeing double vision and am having to close that eye to focus. I can see so much better and I can even out things a little with both eyes open but it really isn't working well. I will have to tolerate it all until next Monday.  The surgery is quick and so strange. I will be glad to have it all done.

Thanks for stopping by today.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Sunshine Warmth

 

 

The downey woodpecker showed up at the suet yesterday. Things were hanging in the way and it messed with my view and focus. The red is such a striking color. I rarely have woodpeckers but maybr this fall that will change. 

 The pile of clippings doubled yesterday as I went around and put the many piles around the yard onto the load. 

 

 There will be more leaves to mulch. It will happen soon as they usually all fall in a couple of days. We have had a warm day again today. It was such a long rainy period that no one is complaining about the bright sun and the heat.  It felt like summer today and yet we are looking more like fall.  

Thanks for stopping by today. 

 

Plant Your Bulbs

There are many shared photos of the monarch migration in Iowa. Their are a lot of them flying though. We are not in any of those paths but we have one or two at a time. I had this one monarch out in the zinnia patch all day. I guess it is building energy so it can keep on down south.
 

 My moss rose has been peaked and weak all season. I did move it out into the sun and it helped. I have a neighbor's planting that is doing sow well. I will plant it into the sun and the ground sometime this next week. 

 I was at Menards for framing wood and look what I found. I did get all of the daffodils planted with much difficulty. Our ground is so wet from too much rain that my bulb planting device gets all stuck full of mud and slows down my planting.

 I had 35 tulips to plant and did get the majority of them planted. I got discouraged and just quit as I was just not finding new places to plant. I have decided to gift eight bulbs to our friends and the ones in the photo will get planted when the ground dries. I do think that giving away plants is fun especially when I am too tired to do the planting a my place. 

 So the string of my red hummingbird feeder broke and the feed fell and broke on the deck. My wife quickly bought me a new one, secretly, and it is now up. The timing was wrong though as the hummingbirds have not migrated south. They are all gone and there is not a bird anywhere.  I did get a lot of photos of them this summer but not one at this new feeder.  I have it hanging on a wire this time and not with string, which was supplied with the other one that broke. It is so strange when the hummers go away. I saw that one person shared a photo on fb of a junco. I think that it seems early but I did see the photo of one in Iowa. We have pelicans flying south through the state near here. The photos of them are amazing and it would be great if we drive over to our lake and see if there are any visible. In the past I have shots of them flying overhead. 

We have had a wonderful day temperature wise and the sun was out all day. I mowed both front yard and backyard today. I had to mulch up all the leaves under the maple and the mower did a great job on them. I have doctor appointment on Monday so I thought I would get the mowing done before that. I am stiff and sore tonight but I like getting the jobs done..

Thanks for checking in today. 

 

Fall Leaves

 My garden angel sits among the hosta and watches the leaves of the maple tree fall quickly in front of him. The crimson red maple drops its leaves in bulk in a short period of time.

 

Evidence of this dropping of leaves shows my job that I will have to do tomorrow. It should mulch up well as the winds are drying things out quickly. The dust will be a bother but I am g lad tht I don't have to bag it up.

Thlel other tree in my backyard that has changed color and is dropping leaves is this redbud tree. They are not falling quickly so I will have to mulk weekly to get them all done before winter. 

Guppies like to be placed in outside tubs. The multiply quickly and the young ones are large in size in no time. I just drag the net through the water of one of the tanks and and this is what I got this morning. I took them inside to be put in my cleaned out fish tank. The natural setting makes them grow rapidly as if in the wild in South America and other tropical countries. One hard freeze would bring them death as they won't survive in cold water.

The rowing in the wild is this morning glory, planted by the birds I would belive. I didn't plant them over in the hosta patch but they are doing well there right now. We had another rain storm last night with some hail. The rains keep some of the flowers well watered.

I planted 12 new daffodils this morning and have planted some new tulips. I didn't get done planting the tulips but will work on it again tomorrow.  The package of tulips had 35 bulbs in it. 

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Thursday''s Things

 We are still pretty green. Our grass is slowing down a little but it does seem to keep us at it at least needing to be mowed once a week. 

 A lot of the zinnias are now fading. When I bring in cut flowers they don't last long inside anymore. I have started to trim back some of them. I like to do a little at a time which makes it easier. It is time to start looking for seeds for next year. I do wait for them to die out before I collect seeds. 

 

 This aquarium was up to having some house cleaning. I am now bringing in some of my guppies that are in outside tubs. I have more live plants to put back into this one. It is nice to get them cleaned even thought it is easier to just ignore them until fish start to die. 

 

I had a dentist appointment this morning. I got a call to move it up two hours sooner and that did work for me. It was nice to get it done. The word nice and dentists visits really don't belong in the same sentence but I did fare well.  Thanks for stopping by today. 

Middle of the Week

 There are only a few blooms on the hardy geraniums. The flowers are striking with greaat clear color, 

 

 The morning glories are also fading now but I do have seed pods ready for planting next spring. 

 The roses are also struggling and we really haven't that cold of weather. The shorter days of daylight has to  be a part of it.

 

 The day was beautiful and we warmed up by the middle of the day. Our leaves are just now starting to turn. We have dried up enough that the farmers can get back into the fields as they are late in harvesting. It is sad to see things shutting down but it is this way every time this time of the year. 

Thanks for stopping by today.