Our trip down South this past weekend was Great … signs of spring were starting to surface! We attended The Midwestern Herb & Garden Show in Mt. Vernon and listened to Roger Swain “the man with the red suspenders” speak on community gardening. There were vendors throughout the mall and my greatest purchase was Hollyhock seeds for $1.00 – I have a ton of them! I also gathered Hibiscus seed off two of our own plants and now have plenty of them also. I have received all my seeds that I ordered and updated the lists across the top of the blog here for the coming season (all except the flowers) … I have added grains as well. I have the layout for the herb garden planned and next to it the strawberry plants will find a home (I ordered 75 Junebearers so this should be a fun challenge in June! I received my issue of GRIT magazine while I was away and discovered my photo of “Bee on Borage” featured on page 7. I will be setting up my account over there to include the CU.Grit.com feature where I can post some more great photos. If there are any good bloggers and/or photographers out there … check out GRIT.com – they are wonderful folks to work with! Actually, everyone should check it out … it’s a spectacular website and magazine! I posted on my blog about the window overlooking the lake – the window valance with woodburned designs is a project I am currently working on …well, here’s a shot of the view with Frankie the dog checking out the sunrise!
It’s dark, I know, but I did that on purpose to show the outside colors. The valance will be 10 ft. across so it’s a Project and I hope it comes out really neat!