Pink hanging lantern (pink is the color of happiness) and Quan Yin statue with minature Japanese maple. My patio has mostly an Asian feel in choice of pots and plants, with a little cottage garden thrown in. Click on the thumb nails to see full sized.


I walked over to the garden center yesterday and hauled home 45 pounds worth of plants (by hand over one mile--hee!) and worked on my patio for three hours planting, organizing, new and old. And today a neighbor knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to go for a walk. We ended up at the garden center again, spending an hour walking the paths, looking at all the specimens and talking about what would suit her garden and mine. It was lovely. My Sheltie wandered the grounds since I take him off leash there.



Plants on my hand made mosaic table (made by me) are two types of lavender, a giant elephant ear leafy plant (name escapes me now, but I'll remember later), and some colorful hens and chicks I potted into the small clay pot which rests on a hand made clay plate by me.



One of the things I bought was a Spanish Lavender topiary which is good to zone five. You could not grow this in most of North America but our climate is mild enough to grow palm trees. All my pots lined up to the door, but I put in a large jug from a trip to Portugal to break it up a little.



A close up of the garden scape I made with a small Buddha buried in herbs and the top of my topiary rose tree, which will be covered in blooms next month. A bamboo wind chime hangs from it and I found bird droppings on my small bronze statue of Leda and the Swan from Greece today. A purple finch has been sneaking in to drink water from my small fountain in the mornings.


Wonderful icon maker I found recently for beautiful stock and QaF icons: trinketwood.

I actually started out Gothic, Good Hands and a quirky one shot but have been writing at odd hours. Pretty sure something up tomorrow but I needed a day off.