Summer Sunday

 After church, time for a walk in the garden

next to my favorite pecan tree

fancies fluttering all over:

my Old Maids are blooming

and in the kitchen:

more glossy peppers!---they smell so good!

and a loaf of homemade bread from a friend, we finished it last night, it was so delicious! I do make homemade herb butter, but this batch is just store-bought. It was still good!

Hope your Sunday was peaceful and that you are staying cool. It's SO HOT HERE. 

poppies

 

These GORGEOUS fluffy white flowers growing in a farmers field captured my fancy!

I HAD TO FIND OUT what they were!

Never could catch them at home....A worker there told me they didn't sow them.....they just appeared, guess the winds or the birds brought the seeds?

A friend told me they were wild white poppies!

Their delicate blooms dance in the hot breezes

They are so fluffy and so beautiful, so I found some seeds and are waiting for them to come up!

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below.....two weeks later......they're up! This is where I planted them, so I think this is them.

Lots of flowers come up here that are NOT what we planted there though...so we will see. LOL

Hope your summer weekend was nice! We did a tiny amount of gardening, it's just too hot. I planted my sweet tater vine that I sprouted off a bigger one.  And then I started a new baby one. I deadheaded flowers in pots yesterday after sunset.

We took naps after church and rested and did a few inside house things.

IT WAS HOT HERE, but lots of daily rain. Hope you are staying cool where you are and  I'm glad you stopped by to visit me!

kitchen garden

 Our little kitchen garden:

Baby watermelons!

And this is how they look 2 weeks later:

We have now transplanted them into the big garden so they can grow watermelons this summer!

Basil planted:

one week later...........it's up!

Our "maters" are doing great so far!

So are the peppers

Accidentally broke one of my favorite bowls.....it's okay....I just tucked it into the garden.

Above...some of the first summer's four 'o clock blooms, I love them so much!

Do any of you enjoy looking the seed catalogues?

I love to look at them.....so many colorful pretty flowers!

So many to decide from!

below, this is a little red bud tree a friend gave us. We hope to get it planted soon.

And below... we have one moonflower out of all the seeds we planted! LOL, hopefully there will be buds and blooms soon. It's twining around and up nicely.

Hope your week has been great. It's HOT HERE, but just about every day we have a late afternoon summer thundershower. We enjoy them, especially on the porch. We've been getting some BIG thunder and lightning though!

4th of july

 

Merry merry 4th of July, y'all!

This time of summer I pull out my red/white/blue hair bows! LOL

Tracie and Amybelle send happy summer wishes!

so does Tansy!

Even with the HEAT, love this time of summer! Our sunflowers have finally bloomed!

I just love studying how each big flower blooms out

And we have rainbows of four 'o clocks in bloom

And it's Pepper time!

I've been busy processing and freezing peppers

Awwwww, they smell SO GOOD!

Enjoying blue summer skies:

watching birds:

are they talking to each other? LOL

Good things grown:

and watching things grow. Below are our baby watermelons:

the farmer's fields of corn are big and tall now:

And some have even put up their first hay:

and a friend brought us a loaf of delicious homemade bread! YUM

above, our crepe myrtle in full bloom. 

Merry merry 4th of July!

Stay cool!

Have a fun safe holiday!