Sunday Morning Thoughts

After learning that my daughter was OK on the east coast, I decided to take a walk across the street to my neighbor's yard. I'm taking care of their flowers for the week, while they are on vacation. They have a lovely yard and there are so many containers to water. By just taking a glance...you'd never know that some of these flowers are growing in containers. Bright colors abound...reds, pinks, yellows, and white. So many different plants...not crowded together, but standing on their own surrounded by mulch. He is good with having something blooming for all seasons...be it annuals, perennials, shrubs etc. I can learn a lot by taking care of this garden. Passing my mailbox, I was looking at my Cut and Come Again Zinnias. For just a small amount of money...these have performed so well. I planted the seeds right in the ground in the spring. Just a few seeds produced all these flowers. You can cut bouquets and they bloom again and again. The Japanese beetles don't seem to like them. I planted them around my mailbox...which was the favorite watering hole for the neighborhood dogs. I just put a little wire fence around and it has almost disappeared into the flowers. It did keep the dogs from stopping and now they have found other favorite spots to stop :)

Not much rain in our future...so I will be watering most everyday. When this is done...my two weeks of taking care of the Grotto and Mary's Garden will start up. I picked the weeks in June and Sept. thinking that the weather would be cooler. Glad I did this year. It's beautiful there...pictures next week.

Have a great day...so glad that Irene wasn't quite as bad as they predicted. Not much consolation for those whose homes were flooded or destroyed. I know that the flooding is still going on and will for a time. I think that the media and local gov. and President Obama are handling this hurricane just about right. I know that the whole nation was praying for the east coast... as we did at Mass last night.

Balisha