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I've spent quite a bit of time over the last few weeks working in the yard. I mentioned a couple of days ago that we had removed the patio and put in another garden. In addition I dug in a bunch of stepping stones around the pond and planted a bunch of grass there today. We've added some more wire to support the Wisteria that is just getting huge. It stretches about 30 feet across from the back deck to an arbor near the pond now. I also planted some pretty cool Purple Hyacinth Bean vines by the arbor as well. Between that and the Wisteria they should look really nice in a couple of months. I also put in the Hyacinth Beans on the back deck as well in addition to the Morning Glories, Blackeyed Susans and a couple of other vines as well. Once they thicken up and start flowering I will post some pictures.

I have some dayliles in the yard as well as other types of lilies. These are some of the new lilies I have planted this year.

They sit in one of a pair of cement flower beds that belonged to my great-grandmother before she passed away. They've gone from Atlanta to Florida back to Georgia over the last 40 years. I don't know exactly how old they are but I do know she had them before I was born. My grandmother and great-aunt had them for years and then they went to my mom who brought them out to me a couple of years ago. It means quite a bit to me to have them sitting on my front walk.

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Back in the spring we set up one of those gazebos that has a metal frame and cloth covering in the driveway. We have a couple of camp chairs in there and a bunch of my plants that I want outside but don't really want exposed to the hot Georgi sun. Needless to say even with the netting I get bugs inside. No huge deal. This butterfly flew in and like most of the time I have my small point and shoot with me. It took about ten or twelve tries before I could finally get a decent shot of it, but here it/he/she is...

I also wanted to post another photo. Out in front of the house I have a huge pot next to the sidewalk and in it grows Geraniums and some Lilies. This is one of them.

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Last week I took some photos of my garden which I will share over the next couple of weeks. This is a shrimp plant that I put in the ground this spring. It was really different and when I first saw the darned thing I knew I had to have it.

...and this is what the flowers look like a bit closer.

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I took this picture Friday night and wanted to share...

It's slightly blurry. I am still learning all of the setting in my camera and night shots are not something I am entirely comfortable with yet, although I am getting better at it. In between the grass and elephant ears is my small goldfish pond. Yep, I finally added fish a couple of months ago. The Elephant ears are getting bigger and bigger every year. Here's another angle to show you just how huge they are.

I will be adding to the yard in the next few weeks with some really amazing stuff I have recently gotten, although not right in that are. I planted a fig tree a couple of days ago and in posts right now I have an Apple tree, Cherry tree, Pomegranate (which will stay potted), Banana Tree and various other vines and clingy things to plant once they get bigger. Several of them are sprouting already but before I move them into the yard I want to make sure they will live.

It's a bit late in the season for some of this but we have such a long growing season i think they will be alright.

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It's been a couple of weeks since I have had the chance to participate so i figured I would schedule this ahead of time while I actually have an off day. That seems to be the thing to do if I want something up at a particular time.

This Clematis sits at the base of the support right at the edge of my back deck, near the smaller pond. It's pretty interesting in that it has never gotten very large. My other two span the trellis that is next to the larger pond and the soil where it grows is much poorer and it gets less watering. This one has been in the dirt for two or three years and just doesn't seem to want to get much bigger...

I spent the greater part of Friday evening working in the yard planting both seeds as well as seedlings that should give me plenty of Green Thumb Sundays over the next few months. I planted a cherry tree, and apple tree, banana trees, kiwi, pomegranate, several different flowering vines I have never dealt with, such as pipevine and a few others as well as some more tomatoes, cucumbers and squash (because the wife likes squash). It was a nice way to stay busy while the wife is out of town.

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This is one of the Hostas that sits in my front garden. It's currently the largest one as well. I took this back in early April and it has grown considerably since then.

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I thought that I might have some free time yesterday to work on getting some new pictures online but it didn't work out quite as planned.

I had a pretty tough day at work but I did manage to get out of there at a decent enough time. Went straight to the gym and worked out with the weight machines for an hour or so. I'll tell you what, I can certainly feel the difference. I can't see it yet, although the wife says she can.

Once I arrived home I got sucked into watching Independence Day. No matter how many times I've seen that stupid-assed movie, if it comes on I will sit down and enjoy watching it. By the time it was over supper was almost ready. Man, that was good. Pan-fried fish dipped in corn meal, broccoli and green beans cooked in garlic butter and fried potatoes. Probably not so good for the cholesterol but it damn sure tasted great.

I just pretty much surfed the web after that. There were several things I wanted to write about, like the fact that nasty old global warming has caused Montana to get 16" of snow. In fucking May. 16". What's up with that shit? I though even in the rockies heavy snow was over early last month or even in March. Or how about the fact that Obama thinks we have 57 states in the Union. He must have missed the day on geography. I'll bet he thinks Chicago is the capitol of fucking Illinois too. That's something you should know without having to look it up.

Speaking of weather, we have had some pretty crappy stuff moving through west Georgia the last few hours. That's probably the only reason I got out of bed in time to post this prior to going to work. Most of the northern part of the state has been under a tornado watch all night and for a while the thunderstorms got pretty wild. What was possibly a tornado moved through my county, but south of here and heading toward Atlanta. It seems that the worst of it has passed through now. The power went out for a short time and I made sure to get clothes together for the girls in case we had to get in the basement quickly. They got to make pallets on the living room floor last night, which they enjoy doing.

I suppose that's about it this morning. Since I am running a bit short on time today I am just going to add my Green Thumb Sunday to this post :)

Maybe it's cheating but it's certainly expedient...

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This is one of the Bougainvillea vines that lives in my backyard. When I get home from work I'll see about posting a better photo than this one. I tokk quite a few pictures the other day and some video of the baby birds under my back deck as well. I just haven't moved them off of the memory card in my camera yet. Depending on what time I get home from work today perhaps I can get some of them online.

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It's been a pretty busy weekend, which is my not too many posts from me so far. I did come home early yesterday and managed to get sort of a half day off, which was much needed, but obviously I didn't spend that time blogging.

I mainly hung out with the girls and I also spent a good bit of time cleaning up the music collection. With having been moved across the network a few times there are quite a few duplicates and there are also some that are corrupt so I have been culling out the unneeded ones.

I also did a bit of gardening yesterday as well. We've put up one of those tent/gazebo things on the patio outside and I have quite a few of the plants in there. It's nice because while they will good bit of light it's not direct sun.

The girls and I also took a few photos which I will eventually upload to flickr but here are a couple for now. I'm running extremely late today so this is all I have time for.

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I'm not going to post any plant pictures this week. I do have several things coming up at the moment and I did shoot them yesterday but I will save those for weeks to come. This week I wanted to post something from my back yard. It is growing, just in an entirely different way than my garden.
Last week I came upon this under my back deck.

So I was under the deck mulching some leaves yesterday and as I walked under what looked like a wren flew out and scared the crap out of me. I felt around carefully and sure enough there were eggs.

The photo of the eggs isn't all that great but I was standing on a cooler under my deck (on a hill) so that I could peer in. The nest sits a few inches under the deck planking on a ledge. Well protected from predators (other than the human kind).

When I showed the girls they were very excited. I had to hold RePete up and her eyes got wide when she saw the eggs. Both girls know that the nest is off-limits to them but RePete has already asked if the eggs had hatched little birds yet.

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I cheated this week! Actually only a little bit. I took this photo last year just prior to putting in the small pond which sits right at the foot of my great elephant ears. With all the rain we've been having lately it shouldn't be too long before they start peeping out.

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I shot this of one of the group of lilies I put in the ground early last week. I have a flower bed that I put in a few years back but thus far the only thing I have planted in it aside from fire ants are three Japanese Maples my three children gave me for Christmas one year. So far this spring I have planted a group of lilies, some Elephant Ears, a few Calla Lilies and a few other types of flowers. Once they start coming up I'll be sure to have something to post through the summer.

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Just a quick shot of my lower pond in the little bit of snow we received a few weeks back.

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This poor tree out in front of one of my restaurants looks so lonely and bleak in the winter weather...

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During the winter we take the great majority of the plants inside and then put them back out in late March. This is the view above my kitchen sink.

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This is the pond at the bottom of my back deck. Pretty bleak this time of the year.

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It's been a few weeks since I have had the chance to participate in Green Thumb Sunday. Since winter has arrived at the Miles casa things aren't quite so green around here now, particularly after the terrible drought we have gone through this year. It doesn't look like it will happen but one can only hope that we get a bit of rain over the winter to help things along for next spring. I guess I will start looking for drought resistant plants over the winter to place in the yard.

Here are some shots from the lower pond area.

The Elephant Ears and Calla Lilies have all but died but the grassy stuff with no name remains. I will be adding some plants and fish to this pond in the spring as well. I tried to move some of the water lilies from the upper pond earlier this summer but they are one huge mass of roots in the bottom of my pond.

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Very quickly it has gone from summer to almost winter here. It's actually been pretty mild during the day but there was a couple of nights last week when the temperature dropped to the high twenties. Needless to say, my garden outside is pretty much finished for the year, although there are some bulbs that it's time to plant now. Anyway, this is the view above my kitchen sink. This vine has pretty much sprung from nothing. As a matter of fact we have taken part of it, rooted it and now it is at least as large and hanging over the tub in my bathroom.

The entire area could use a bit of cleaning and removal of dead stuff, but that's just one of those things that we will get to eventually.

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