Storms Last Night

 

I wonder how much longer this tree will stand before it actually falls over in the ground?  It's been around many years and weathered many storms.

 

We had high winds during the storms this morning and lost power for 2hrs.  A few limbs were broken and we can count ourselves lucky this time.  Thank God!

June

Summer is here and with it comes the bugs, bad weather and extreme heat & drought.  I don't relish any of those subjects.  Here is Texas we always get bad storms and very hot temps.  This causes us to have disasters of all different types.  High winds, hail, lightning and tornadoes.  Just overwhelming to many, when their homes and businesses get torn up.  We've had some storms lately, but none that really were bad enough to cause much damage.  For this we are all thankful.  As you can tell summer is just starting, so our fingers will stay crossed for a few months.
 Hurricane season is also here and our coast is subject to many as well.

Flowers in Spring

 

Here are some of the flowers and shrubs around the front and side of my home.  As I walked out the front door, this is what greets me.  Mom, planted many of these iris's back a few years ago, now I get to enjoy them.  I need to weed eat up around the house in the flower beds.

Him Mowing?

 

Yes, he finally got on the mower just to prove me wrong.  I thought that the battery had run down but he did the manly thing and showed me that the cables were loose.  So, it started right off and he had to show off his skills of mowing the lawn.  Ha, ha!

Mowing Time

 

Caught in the act of mowing.  He thinks he can out do me.......ha, ha, I mowed all the other parts of the yard until it choked out on high clover.

Weeds

These are some of the dandelions growing in my yard.  I understand that these are edible in salads or cooked like spinach and other greens.

Red Rose

New buds are about to open and soon the climbing red rose bush will be full of blooms.

Iris Blooming

My Yard

From Seeds

These plants are now planted in my back yard garden.  I put a package of onion seeds in this pot and kept the soil moist, as the package directed.  Within a few days small green sprouts were shooting up through the surface to greet the sun.  They are very hardy, since it's been about 4 months coming of growth. 

Onion Slips

 

It's just getting started but, here are the onion slips that were planted about 3 weeks ago.  Just before the good soaking rain we had, I had the guy who is helping me, plant them so they could get established early.