tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219601072024-03-13T17:08:17.418-04:00My 2 CentsPets, garden, and my backyard.Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-62847449466944570952018-07-21T07:44:00.001-04:002018-07-21T08:22:27.710-04:00Monarch Butterflies love Milkweed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've switched most of my websites/blogs to WordPress because it gives me more flexibility... but also more headaches!<br />
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In years to come who knows, SquareSpace/Wix? Trying something new this week called #Slack.<br />
There are so many choices, but so many silos. It seemed for a while the internet united us, but now I feel it isolates more than unites.<br />
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This blog was the start of my online presence. And while it seems old, it's just over 10 years. Wonder what the next 10 will bring!<br />
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<br />Me 10 years ago in March 2007<br />
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Me in Sept 2016.<br />
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A few changes. But it's still me.<br />
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Most the pets pictured in the blog have gone "over the rainbow."<br />
The puppy on this blog has turned into the old dog - Lucky who is 14 1/2 years old!<br />
Lady has been with us for 5 years this Dec. And we've got Kingsley and Sasha black cats now too.<br />
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Gardening 2015 resolutions:<br />
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<li>I want to put a flower garden in the hollow stump of the old walnut tree. </li>
<li>Replant some seeds for the poppies - or Ben flowers as Grinny called them. </li>
<li>Do 5 minutes of weeding, pulling and clean up each day, switching from my 5 main gardens. </li>
<li>Take a photo and post it (even though they look the same year over year, there are minor differences) </li>
<li>Re propagate the forsythia. I got a moth or something that killed most of mine with a center hole in all the stems. </li>
<li>Create a hanging basket with wave petunias using the multi hole hanging baskets and potting mix. </li>
<li>Put the hanging baskets on the front porch and don't forget to water!! </li>
<li>Keep the hibiscus growing inside during the winter so they are there on the back porch during the summer</li>
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The November 2014 snowstorm was a doozy. I thought we'd end up with a very snow December as well, but no snow in December.<br />
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That was too bad, since I never got any skiing in between Christmas and New Years.<br />
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The resort is making snow, but it just doesn't seem like winter with green stuff showing.<br />
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After the initial shock of all the white stuff and clearing the driveway, things got back to the usual.
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Without snow in December, I got thinking more about the beautiful flowers this summer.<br />
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I've saved lots of seeds and plan to plant them in my gardens around the house.<br />
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It's been 2 and a half years since my bee sting and I'm getting more used to carrying the epipen and phone with me.<br />
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Planning to really plant a lot of flowers this spring!<br />
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<b>I've got 5 gardens going:</b><br />
1) <b>Along the fence out front</b>- about 150 feet by 3 feet of bushes and a few flowering plants. I keep the trash out of it, and pull the bad weeks. Forsythia, sedum, PJs, hostas (plain and striped) with a mix of east sun and shade under the big maples and smaller/medium pines.White clematis<br />
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2) <b>North side of the house: </b>This was crazy last year when I took a big walnut tree as thick as my upper arm out of the middle of it. Always fighting the "volunteers". I tied up the red bud tree that has turned into an awkward bush. Lots of daylilies of different varieties and timing. Lungwart. Mountain somthing. Some daffodils. a peony, moneyplants, two huge hibisus and bordered by 2 huge huge lilacs. purple clematis Maybe 35 feet by 8 feet?<br />
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3) <b>Next to the garage:</b> This has a walnut stump that defines it. 3 or 4 huge hostas, some ferns, aloe plants, pink whispy fern, pink clematis, ben flower (poppy), sundrops, something tall that Bruce gave us, pink somdethings that have lots of rattling seeds, 2 overgrown japanese irises, volunteer purple things. (I really should learn all the names of stuff!) This is about 20 feet by 7 feet in a football shape on one side, with a tail.<br />
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4) <b>Along the deck </b>Lady's mantle, sundrops, pink clematis, monkeyfist/spiderwort, 3 peonies, small sunflower/blackeyed susans, pink somethings. Not my favorite garden to weed due to the u smell. 10 feet by 3 feet.<br />
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5) <b>Next to the turn around:</b> Bad soil here and I've been thinking of giving this one up. I created it to keep people off the lawn and because we had a woodpile there that was serving the purpose before. Now I have a tree/bush from Grinny's and a former Christmas tree holding the spot. This got so overgrown that when I weeded it my daughter thought we had just planted the 2 trees. My goal, to keep it weeded and get it smaller!! 12 feet x 3 feet. Maybe down to 6 feet by 2 feet. Iris, monkeyfist/spiderwort, black eyed susan sunflowers (this is what got overgrown - they are ugly till they bloom).<br />
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6) <b>next to the stairs</b>: this one is so small, it doesn't count: sun flowers, cone flowers, sun drops and black eyed susans. 3 feet by 2 feet.I love this one, but the bees are too close to the deck/stairs that I have to walk by and it attracts bumblebees too. I need them farther away for safety.<br />
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Total flower garden estimates:<br />
450 + 280 + 140 + 30 + 36 + 6 = 942<br />
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Gotta keep the 450 looking great, because it's by the road. And it's fairly easy to get to and has perrenials<br />
The North side got outta control, but I'm gonna scale back on the types and quantity<br />
The 140 by the garage is the hardest because its too packed<br />
The Deck's 30 is not very pretty. Maybe take out some of the ugly ones (spiderwort that attracts bumble bees)<br />
Turn around - definitely plan it and shrink it.<br />
next to the stairs - shorter flowers for safetly. Maybe put the big sunflowers somewhere else (another sun garden?<br />
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I didn't even count the massive daylilies around the coop (I've let that garden of irises get out of control.<br />
Or around the garage. (ditto)<br />
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Winter arrived and it was cold! Heavy, wet, good-packing snow that lasted about 4 or 5 days.
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Pretty snow, but icy and cold.
I know I shouldn't wish my life away, but I can't help but think about what was:
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Luckily I have saved lots of seeds and plan to plant early in the spring. Pink cone flowers. Small sunflowers. BIG SUNFLOWERS and on and on. Only 5 months til April and the winds of spring.<div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-66498018031786488812014-07-06T06:04:00.002-04:002014-07-06T06:14:00.955-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Angel Trumpet Deadly! Beautiful flowers but from what I hear, I should be wearing gloves when taking off the wilted flowers. Better keep them away from the dogs too. Burns the skin. They are in the nightshade family.<br />
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Thunder boomers and a giant front came thru. I'd been sitting in a meeting all day looking out at a beautiful sunshine view of some mountains when wham, it dumped.
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Not that I'll really focus only on Day Lilies but now that winter is it's last month <i>(please!)</i> I'm getting garden fever again!<br />
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I've water the gardens a few times, but not enough to have beautiful gardens, just enough to keep them going until nature takes over!<br />
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Projects around the house have taken precedent over the gardens too... with painting comes stomping of the plants. But they'll grow back.<br />
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Just realized how much I've neglected the blog when Mom reminded me I hadn't posted all year here!! Yikes!<br />
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No one is awake yet, except me and the dogs. Can't wait for Lady to see what Lucky got for her under the Christmas tree. (Shhhhh, don't tell, but it's one of those tennis ball throwing arms!)</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-55239527153884664332011-12-18T16:17:00.006-05:002011-12-19T19:37:47.804-05:00New member of the family- Nina at home<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_Nwsz_emrAo/Tu8mgYoBUyI/AAAAAAAAA6w/DvMa7eoWDXs/s1600/nina.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687807192200205090" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_Nwsz_emrAo/Tu8mgYoBUyI/AAAAAAAAA6w/DvMa7eoWDXs/s400/nina.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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Not sure if we're going to call her Nina:<br />
Lilly, Lucy, Nicki, Suri, Lady, Princess, SweetPotato, Sandy, Sasha. who knows. We're still trying different names.<br />
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I think I'm going to watch this all thru the rainy days of fall, cold snowy days of winter and blustery blowy days in this spring until the first crocuses and daffodils peak out thru the snow and mud. Only about 180 more days right?<div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-90544106248104478892011-07-10T14:42:00.001-04:002011-07-10T14:45:37.324-04:00July Daylily Blooms<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CY41orRtJfA/ThnzNo0anVI/AAAAAAAAA6g/9X72PeL1uxs/s1600/DSC04691.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CY41orRtJfA/ThnzNo0anVI/AAAAAAAAA6g/9X72PeL1uxs/s400/DSC04691.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627796624997260626" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-32095755931263032122011-06-23T14:41:00.000-04:002011-07-10T14:42:43.526-04:00Daylily<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-65Uab13EVbM/ThnygcxtJoI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/8cUellJIIkw/s1600/daylily.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-65Uab13EVbM/ThnygcxtJoI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/8cUellJIIkw/s400/daylily.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627795848670553730" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-57755533846085454162011-05-23T14:46:00.000-04:002011-07-10T15:27:24.028-04:00Big Storms in Twinsburg and Solon<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6LT8GBwgN-M/Thnz9YlklFI/AAAAAAAAA6o/Ky_aRRLO9f0/s1600/DSC04562.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6LT8GBwgN-M/Thnz9YlklFI/AAAAAAAAA6o/Ky_aRRLO9f0/s400/DSC04562.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627797445273752658" /></a><br />The big storm passed over us to the North.<div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-82503491144595754952011-04-11T14:38:00.000-04:002011-07-10T14:41:27.358-04:00Daffodils and Lucky<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nCdNr26jqLU/ThnyJUL8p1I/AAAAAAAAA6I/5ZTnLzt0TVc/s1600/DSC04324.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xC0uWaqbX6g/TX9dHJIXtzI/AAAAAAAAA5U/YqNKTF2VifQ/s400/Look%2Bwhat%2BLucky%2Bfound.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584284440254199602" /></a><br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20925939?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="398" height="299" frameborder="0"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-87501098181345582002011-02-23T06:21:00.001-05:002011-02-23T06:23:28.733-05:00Sunny Snow Train<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NHQDCU6bH8k/TWTt4OKFWsI/AAAAAAAAA5M/q4pG9Ex-u7E/s1600/train.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NHQDCU6bH8k/TWTt4OKFWsI/AAAAAAAAA5M/q4pG9Ex-u7E/s400/train.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576843788720364226" /></a><br />It was cold on the way to work yesterday, but oh so sunny. Just had to capture this image of the train blowing up all the snow.<div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-57949909419254893572011-01-24T07:09:00.005-05:002011-01-26T08:06:10.826-05:00Cold January Morning for the Chickens<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyHjsq1GgRlaRaeSnYNxTjdGtbs4JBf6pRugf0l3xX7q-FAxgnbdcrTNFy6YGL4luuwSPrIjBGWZT8' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br />Video of our chickens on a cold Saturday Morning!<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TUAB3YlTgpI/AAAAAAAAA5A/_-4d9RY6w04/s1600/100_0120.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566451190433284754" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TUAB3YlTgpI/AAAAAAAAA5A/_-4d9RY6w04/s400/100_0120.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TUAB20SWoVI/AAAAAAAAA44/tlFrz6AKnBI/s1600/100_0123.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566451180690121042" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TUAB20SWoVI/AAAAAAAAA44/tlFrz6AKnBI/s400/100_0123.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TUAB247ekaI/AAAAAAAAA4w/iirNG9ZkR60/s1600/100_0124.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566451181936349602" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TUAB247ekaI/AAAAAAAAA4w/iirNG9ZkR60/s400/100_0124.JPG" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-59625613319902113252011-01-16T18:09:00.007-05:002011-01-17T06:01:45.921-05:00Winter ScenesIt's been a winter wonderland here lately. The skiing is helping me to not feel the cabin fever.<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TTN8ZEcsLhI/AAAAAAAAA4g/ERt7uuM92I0/s1600/DSC03884.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TTN8ZEcsLhI/AAAAAAAAA4g/ERt7uuM92I0/s400/DSC03884.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562926734865346066" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TTN8Y9bRDVI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/fbj2IdFhWCU/s1600/DSC03894.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TTN8Y9bRDVI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/fbj2IdFhWCU/s400/DSC03894.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562926732980325714" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TTN8Y76isMI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/A2yXAwu-D8c/s1600/DSC03906.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TTN8Y76isMI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/A2yXAwu-D8c/s400/DSC03906.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562926732574634178" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-42233495940127488952011-01-13T14:01:00.002-05:002011-01-13T14:32:33.738-05:00Wintery Day at Hudson Springs Park<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TS9MvHsPgNI/AAAAAAAAA4A/fcviRCncsa8/s1600/IMG00236.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TS9MvHsPgNI/AAAAAAAAA4A/fcviRCncsa8/s400/IMG00236.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561748437228028114" /></a><br />I snapped this when I was walking the dog at Hudson Springs Park in Hudson, Ohio. You can just feel how cold it was. The snow was squeaking!<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TS9TQegbeaI/AAAAAAAAA4I/18yAREatbYU/s1600/IMG00235.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TS9TQegbeaI/AAAAAAAAA4I/18yAREatbYU/s400/IMG00235.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561755607357946274" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21960107.post-25654375776664058992010-12-30T08:40:00.002-05:002011-01-17T06:00:59.162-05:00Planting the Christmas Tree<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TTQdEaGRzQI/AAAAAAAAA4o/g1jCmFgmWss/s1600/DSC03903.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-KiPS3Eezuw/TTQdEaGRzQI/AAAAAAAAA4o/g1jCmFgmWss/s400/DSC03903.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563103401271741698" /></a>Thanks to my son and his girlfriend, our Christmas tree is happily in the ground. It's planted about 20 feet in front of and left of the beehives. <br /><br />I love having our Christmas trees scattered throughout the yard. It gives me a sense of continuity -- good memories of the past and a promise of the future.<div class="blogger-post-footer">My garden, backyard, flowers, the dogs and more garden.</div>Chris Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356523929428333148noreply@blogger.com0