Hot hot hot

Muggy too.  Staying inside mostly.  The air is so heavy it gives me a headache when I stay out too long.

I am getting so I don't even care if all flowers die.  The zinnias are winners for flower garden with me.  The Panicle hydrangea does so well in this heat also.  

Table with store purchased carnations from my husband.  Gold dust plant cutting from my yard placed in vase with hydrangeas also from my yard.

Gladiolus in my den window is so pretty. The coral pink ones are blooming now but haven't a picture of them yet.

I love this candy stripe Zinnia.  I have several of these blooming along with a variety of others. 

They along with Panicle Hydrangeas withstand the heat very well.  Petunias do to as long as they are in part shade and constantly watered.

Each one has different candy stripe markings.

Red Crepes grew taller by two feet it seems this year.  I will trim back that side limb I think but I don't trim like some do.  I like the natural shape and just trim if it needs it like a few unruly limbs.  I like to keep the new sprouts cut at bottom, but too hot to mess with those now for me anyway. 

                                                                                            

Love my swamp hibiscus

We are both reading on these stay inside hot days.  Book shown is one my husband is reading.  Harkening back to some fond memories for him when he lived there.   I ordered this book for him online from Seashell city along with different colors of sea glass for me to craft with.  It's not sea glass from the sea but tumbled colored glass. Still tumbled by sand and water, but a shorter time and not ocean water. 

Beautiful

Royal Palm Way

A must visit to Seashell city for some fine souvenirs, mostly for me. 

From my shell collection of Emerald Isle. Found while visiting there the first week of June. 

I placed one shell on top of another shell and took a close up.  I copied on photo paper from my printer and framed.  It's sitting on my table in den. 

Shell on shell

This is it for today

Hope everyone is staying cool and inside during the hottest part of the days. 

Happy Sunday

Saturday rain.  As I was driving home from visiting sister and in 40 mph winds with rain coming down hard it was difficult to see.  I put my flashers on so others could see me because the lightning and thunder plus torrential down pour made visibility very bad.  Wind was bending trees. 

 My prayers answered and arrived safely home. 

Coming into drive

 

We have had water all the way to the driveway.  Not this time and thankful for that.

short clip

Earlier a trip out to see Mom.

A picture of my 103-year-old Mom.  We visited before the storm hit. She loves to do word puzzles, and she won a game at bingo in which she picked out a prayer blanket. 

Donated by as stated on card below

On our way home from seeing Mom earlier

Steve and I had pizza at GG's Pizza in Goochland Va.

Best I have had in a long time. We like going here for our pizza fix.

One half Italian sausage with tomatoes, other half was pepperoni with feta cheese

My Swamp Hibiscus is in bloom.  First thing I see when venturing out in the morning.

Crepe Myrtle is in bloom now

I want to share this mirror my sister made and is hanging in her bathroom over sink

in Maine.

She glued down individual dowels cut in random sizes on a piece of Luan plywood. 

Then placed the mirror or maybe mirror was already glued down and hung over her sink. She spray painted the dowels gold color.

A lot of work she put in this.  Very pretty

This is it for today

Happy Sunday

Betsy ⚘💮🎴🎕

What's in bloom and sharing while it lasts.

Happy Saturday.  Will be out in the little garden area spreading good dirt and fertilizer. Some plants go in tomorrow. 

 

Some shots of our largest Azaleas in bloom

Up close

it's looks like an orchid to me. I can't help but notice how the little spots on flower are lined up. So delicate looking and perfect. 

Grand daddy's beard as mama always calls it, Fringe tree to most shown here behind azalea

My spring flowers and trees bloom in succession.  First the forsythia then the dogwoods with some early azaleas, then later azaleas with the fringe tree. 

Fringe tree is highly fragrant especially in the afternoon. 

Mostly porch sitting these days after working outside.  I need to get to work inside.  I rather be out most days.  Will be needing to throw out this furniture before long.  It has been outdoors and indoors off and on for 18 years.  It's not real, it's plastic and now it's breaking, not sure what I will put out here next.  I would love to replace the jalousie windows but not anytime soon.

This used to be just a cement floor showing.  We decided on having tile put down about 10 years ago.

Blueberry salad I am finishing up.   I love this stuff. 

It is Grape Jello, blueberry pie filling (Comstock) pineapple crushed canned. 

Topping sour cream, confectioner sugar and cream cheese.  Don't know why it's called a salad.  Maybe because it's got different fruit tossed in?

For lunch, I took out some frozen chicken tenders, cooked in air fryer.  Heated up some honey with tad bit of butter, added some pepper flakes.  Drizzled on my chicken, served with mashed redskins and kale.

Needless to say, I am more than full

For dessert was the blueberry salad. I had that before my lunch.  I don't like to take a chance that I may be too full to eat it, but that's just me.

Back to the garden

til next time