Well the large order of lilies (48 of them) came yesterday and I soaked them overnight and had intended to start planting them at 7:00 this morning. However, when my alarm went off at 6:30 I hit the snooze and went back to sleep for another half hour. By the time I got dressed and ate my breakfast (you MUST eat breakfast . . . it's the most important meal of the day) it was somewhere between 7:15 and 7:30. Then I had to go through them all and divide them up into buckets according to what part of the yard they were to be planted in . . . that took another half hour.  Finally I got started in earnest and after I planted about 8 of them it started to rain.  I went back out shortly after it quit raining and started planting again.  I must be fairly slow at this because I only got 23 of them planted today . . . taking time out for lunch, a short nap and supper.  Surely I can finish tomorrow.  I may never order another lily again.

Alice and I both use this sedum as a bordering ground cover. We've called it Kitty Sedum for years because Alice got it from her husband's cousin's wife (not sure what that would be called), but I saw it at the TLC nursery the other day and now we know what its actual name is . . . Spirit Sedum.  Just like most all sedums it is easy to plant. Just pluck off a two inch sprout and make a tiny hole in the ground (I use a large screw driver) and stick the broken-off end into the hole and close up the hole with a little pressure from your finger. VOILA, you have another start of Spirit "Kitty" Sedum.

And this is a collage of all the flowers that were blooming in my yard just yesterday. All these pictures were taken yesterday morning. Just three years ago, who would have ever thought that I'D be farmer Duffy.

I love the morning light . . . especially the way the blinds slice the sunlight. This is my breakfast table at 7AM this morning as I was eating my breakfast.  

As soon as I finished breakfast I went outside to check on the yard to see what blooms were waiting for me and the shadows of the picket fence on the wet grass caught my eye. You can see my footsteps in the dew covered grass where I had just checked the rose bush on the far fence.

Last Friday, Alice, Gillian and I went to the zoo . . . not to see the animals, but to see all the photos in the zoo photo contest. I think this was my favorite one. I've played with it to make it look more like a water color, even though it was not from a photo I took.  Tigers are such beautiful creatures, I just couldn't resist.