The view from the kitchen window a few weeks ago

Hmmmm.... well, okay, i'll admit, it's been a very, very long time since anything of significance was posted on this blog... perhaps due to the severely cramped schedule which i have found myself locked into lately but fortunately, that is now behind me for one week and i can spend a glorious week at home, relaxing, working on projects here and there, catching up with some of my long lost friends and family whom i have so terribly neglected over the last few weeks. Sometimes life just seems to get so busy, eh, and there's nothing one can do about it except ride the wild wave and hope you come up breathing on the other side. Work, yes, it has been super busy the last while - i suppose i've been trying to bolster the suffering bank account before renos would begin on my one-person designer 60s kitchen... but it has played much havoc with my social life. Fortunately, for those who know me well, my sleep patterns (literally falling asleep nearly anywhere, it seems) have not been interrupted, although thanks to a pair of sometimes restless legs, i am sent to bed earlier than i would wish. Aaah, well, just gives me more time to read. I just re-finished "An assembly such as this" by Pamela Aiden - a story telling the events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy's perspective - very interesting and well worth the read. Yes, there are also about eight other books on my reading shelf - borrowed from friends and family and the ever-faithful library (which, to my utter frustration, as alluded to in my sister's blog in the recent past, the new library by the police station has no signs to direct you anywheres - you just wander around in the stacks aimlessly randomly finding things of interest but taking hours to find the things you actually came in for - aah...the price of modern technology and the theories of librarification!!!)
Three minutes later....

Okay... back again - flight of ideas sometimes occurs in my head (well often) and i was just distracted into wandering outside after hearing a little birdie hit my window - i didn't find any incapacitated fowl but i found some flowers which begged me to come inside and sit in the pretty little pitcher which i found at the dump store today... so now i sit in my office, with the windows open, the breeze gently wafting through, thinking of what to have for dinner and enjoying the pretty black eyed Susans nodding and dipping their heads in the wind. Tomorrow, hopefully the weather will be good and Mom and I can finish up staining my front door and making it look presentable again - it was looking pretty tired...

and a little lick of colour always perks things up...

On to the pictures... not sure of the last ones i put up - but i thought i'd throw a random assortment of the garden up...
The morning glories are threatening to take over the house... creepy!

For some reason, my garden produces really big plants... crazy!

I'm trying to be like my mother - doing things in threes... hence three rocks "borrowed" from the side of the road on a road trip earlier in the summer... paired with my hydrangea bush - which i'm in love with - you can't see the pretty colour on this picture but it's a lovely baby blue!!! Hopefully the soil will be of the right type to keep it that colour!

"Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite..."

A little bit of produce from my first garden ever, unfortunately the tomatoes suffered dismal fate - they all rotted on the vine much to my chagrin after such a promising early break from the gate... aaah, well, live and learn - next year, pruning and spacing are in order and not forgetting that sunflowers and canna lilies get pretty tall - hmmm.. tomatoes like sun!