project 365 - a tough call

Here's my 2nd choice photo for today's project 365 pic. Click here for my 1st choice.

catfish and mandala

I highly recommend this book! So far it's a captivating read - I've spent a decent amount of time the last couple of days reading this book. It's over-due at the library and I'm trying to get through it so I can return it when I get back from training. Anyway here's a picture of my favorite reading spot on Payette Lake. What a find...

project 365 - Day One

I have a friend who always had his huge camera with him and would take a random shot every once in a while. Now i realize he was doing this. A photo a day for a year. I want to do it! No time like the present...


Here's the guy that I believe started this project - there are many many people out there who are doing this - this link will show you the hows and whys of the project, as well as where to find other people's Project 365 photos.

this week: a photo montage

I had a great week of gardening and got a chance to get out in a boat. Here are a bunch of pictures from the week - mostly of the native garden I just planted outside our living room window. Happy, happy spring!

it was a stunning day...

a heron?

can't wait to see how these grow...

I'm finally going to see if I can grow columbine:



before:

after:

lulabelle unknowingly gets into the photo shoot:

spring has sprung - i think.

Here it is! The garden's latest incarnation. We have, from left to right: 2 artichokes (starts), pole beans and snap peas (seeds), cauliflower (starts), strawberries (from a large container at home), brussel sprouts (starts), potatoes (already in the garden - they were a surprise), beets (already there), green onions (already there plus we planted bulbs), lettuce (starts), chard (already there) and leeks (seeds). C is standing near the potatoes and greens.

How exciting is this? I'm sure we'll lose some stuff, but since we have a full garden I'm kind of counting on it so we can plant some later season crops. I'm thrilled, and we had such a fantastic day yesterday doing all of this planting.

Helen is the woman who's garden is behind ours - the one with all the berries. She a very nice older woman who's been gardening here for 30 years. The bed we have now had been hers for many years. She used to have 6 plots, I believe, and she's been giving them up one by one. She now has two left. She's sort of famous in the p-patch, and everyone keeps telling us how lucky we are to have her patch. It's true - it's amazing soil and she's a wonderful woman. We were very fortunate with this one - definitely worth the wait.

egg's nest

I was inspired by an etsy find the other day and thought I'd give it a try. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out - I would change the chain and maybe use all the same color wire. But all in all I love it, and for some reason it makes me happy to wear it. Maybe because having a little egg of my own has been much on my mind lately...

I also love this idea for an egg's nest necklace.