It's taking me longer to get together the more interesting Yellowstone photos than I thought. (A word of advice: before taking hundreds of irreproducible photos, make sure your lenses and sensor are as clean as possible or you'll be retouching dust specks for hours.)
Summarizing our trip so far, we left home Monday evening, arrived at Theodore Roosevelt National Park Wednesday early evening, had the bison hike on Thursday, and today's post is about Friday.
So after the encounter with the buffalo, we got back to camp, cooled off, cleaned up, and just hung out for a while. Had to decompress for a while, rehydrate.
Our roadtrip vacation has just gotten started. After leaving home Monday night, we arrived at Theodore Roosevelt National Park Wednesday evening, maybe 6:00 or 7:00 PM. Or maybe it was 8:00 PM. The thing is, we never really knew what time it was, since the border between the Central and Mountain time zones zigzags through this area and our two phones could not agree on what hour it was.
In other words, let's go on vacation! It's been years since we've had a proper break/vacation/holiday... in fact, 2005 was our last real one. Ouch. So we decided this year to get adventurous and take a road trip out west!
As I get settled back in from 2 weeks on the road, please allow me one more teaser post.
So although I'm not quite back home, I will be very soon.
No Internet access, so no new posts. Back in 2010 I put a camera on a long pole to get a different look at my garden.
Without Internet access, I'm doing a few posts from back in the early days of this blog, some of my favorites.
Remember I don't have Internet access right now, so here's a look at one of my favorite posts from a few years ago.
You'll have to excuse me for the next few days, as I'll be traveling and won't be able to post anything brand new for you.
You know about the Datura inoxia that I let grow in my driveway cracks every year, right? I've posted about them several times before, as their big white blooms are wonderful, and the spiky seed pods are so interesting (until they burst open).
These are probably my favorite seeds, those of the native-to-Missouri grass Chasmanthium latifolium. It has several common names like "northern sea oats", "wood oats", "Indian wood oats", and variations, but I've come to just call it "Chasmanthium".
A little bit of Rudbeckia triloba today, looked at in a more artsy way.
Agastache may be my favorite genus of flowering plants: fragrant leaves, tubular flowers all summer that keep the hummingbirds happy, and pretty much carefree. The only problem I've ever had with Agastache is they sometimes won't make it through our wet winters -- other than that, just ignore them!
This summer after getting tired of chasing squirrels off my bird feeders several times a day, I got smart and switched my birdseed. I stopped using sunflower seeds and changed to safflower seed which is supposed to be unpalatable to both squirrels and grackles -- the two champs of feeder emptiers in my yard.
Last week Wednesday was the last free concert of the summer at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The Whitaker Music Festival is held there every year, and these concerts are one of the highlights of the week for us. Great music, free admission to the garden -- a don't-miss series (next year) if you live in the St. Louis area!
It's been a long time since I've had a sunrise worth watching or photographing.
This heirloom lemon cucumber is such a pretty thing!
I spend a lot of time focusing on the views of my own garden, but I can see my neighbor's yards through my windows too. What do they have to offer?
I know it's my goal to create a backyard garden that is worth looking at, that gives everybody who visits so much to see.
We had another unfortunate incident in the garden yesterday, something that made not only me sad but upset one of my cats too.
Another one of those "just relax and enjoy what's in the garden" posts.
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After my walkway project this weekend I was a bit tired -- those concrete blocks aren't as heavy as stones of the same size would be, but they're certainly not light! So I spent a little time observing and enjoying, and at this specific time I noticed... crinkles!
I've spent the last few days showing you some of the wonderful things in my garden: bees, light, birds. It's been quite a while since I've done a post about a real project -- although looking at and enjoying the garden is essential, there's work to do, right?
With almost any endeavor you need a certain intensity in order to be successful. Gardening is included in this -- successful gardeners need that drive, that single-mindedness. It's all about the plants, and it's difficult to "get it right" without some level of obsession.
I'm often complimented on the photographs I take for this blog (thank you!). Well, here's the secret...
I look at it all day long through the window, so I don't really get a good sense of how the walkway garden is doing. Sure I see blooms come and go, but I don't notice if specific plants are doing well or not. Are they growing?
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