The Rewards of a Nice Day and a Garden

After a week of nasty weather and some really heavy rain, today is a joy of glorious weather. Warm (but not hot) and the yellow orb is shining brightly.

This inspires the gardener in me. I am admittedly a lousy gardener. Not from lack of trying. I just do not have a green thumb, despite my efforts. Every spring I set out to be better than the year before. I blame much of my failure on the heat of the central valley which hovers around the 100 degree mark for much of the summer.

Not a lot of flowers, but the gnomes are happier than they
were when they had none last week!

OOPS!! Can't a gnome
have a private moment!!??

I do try.



I gifted my gnomes some marigolds a week ago. The rain has beat them to the ground. I do hope they pop back up. That is before the snails get them. I don't dare use snail bait as my dog will assuredly eat it. It has the same shape and size as Lucy's bird food, so it can be confusing, even though I am sure it smells quite different. I also planted some tomatoes, cucumbers, string beans, red peppers, basil (4 varieties), mint, cilantro and parsley. The tomatoes, string beans, peppers, mint and 1/2 of the basil survived the torrential rain. The rest didn't.

Today, I planted replacements for the casualties and some more flowers here and there.

3 varieties of basil, and a pepper plant.
Do I see gnomes dancing??

While at the garden store, I could not resist a hummingbird feeder. We used to have a loquat tree in the back corner that we needed to chop down as it was a sick tree. The hummers used to nest there. I used to see a lot of hummers. So I miss them. I put up a hummer feeder to attract them.

Birds are amazing. One little change, and their little beady eyes spot it right off. It was not 15 minutes later that I had a visitor! I rushed inside to get my camera. The hummer flew off. She perched on top of one of our trees and waited. I sat and waited too. I knew she would come back. Sure enough, she did.

Waiting

Coming in!

Yummy!!

My new friend

So in celebration of spring and my hummingbird friend, I am placing my hummingbird pattern books on sale until 5/1/12. I will Email the files after you order. So be patient! I will email them as quick as I can!

Earrings and bracelets for each species! You will find these Hummers in this book:

Allen's Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbird

Black Chinned Hummingbird

Calliope Hummingbird

Cinnamon Hummingbird

Costas Hummingbird

Lucifer Hummingbird

Magnificent Hummingbird

Ruby Throated Hummingbird

Violet Crowned Hummingbird

For peyote/brick and delicas. Regular $29.95 SALE $20.00

Volume 1 of a collection of Hummingbirds. Each is around 3 X 4, give or take. Each

is charted for Delicas, in peyote/brick as color coded graphs.

You will find these hummers in this collection:

Allen’s Hummingbird


Buff Tailed Hummingbird


Gould’s Inca Hummingbird


Green Crowned Hummingbird


Ruby Throated Hummingbird in Flight

At $9 each on another site, this collection is already a savings at $29.95. On sale here now for $20.

Vol 2 of the hummingbird collection includes:

Purple Throated Woodstar Hummingbird


Ruby Throated Hummingbird


Violet Bellied Hummingbird


Rufus Hummingbird


Violet Crowned Hummingbird

At $9 each on another site, this collection is already a savings at $29.95. On sale here now for $20.