Lots of Lilies - Pittsford Garden Tour

Well this is a collage of many of the different kinds of day lilies that I photographed on the tour.  The weather could not have been nicer although there was so much sunshine a few of the shots were just plain overexposed!



As you can see, there was a very wide variety of day lilies which are some of my favorite flowers and I am sure there is a second lily quilt in here somewhere!

I thought this was one of the more unusual colors.  Just looks like someone took a watercolor brush to it!  These lilies were mostly in one of the participant's gardens although almost every one of the 9 gardens had one or two varieties.

I particularly liked the orange and yellow varieties of this double lily.

I loved the lines on these leaves.  At another house, they had the same type but it had green, purple and pink veins.  Unfortunately the lighting wasn't good enough for a great picture of those.

Two of the gardens had small ponds with water lilies, another of my favorites.

This was an acantha which I was not familiar with but really liked!



I think I finally have the space problem licked (until Blogger engineers in their infinite wisdom install another update without telling anyone and without any testing....).  I use Chrome  but this time with the Updated Blogger Editor (check on Settings in Blogger) and I always put a carriage return after I do the text next to the picture.  If you don't add this carriage return, things become all flummoxed again.  This one went rather smoothly!  Also you have to remember to add all your pictures at once using the Upload feature on pictures but deselect all the pictures you don't want immediately.  I add the pictures to the blog one at a time after they have been uploaded and it has gone smoothly....  I will have to see if I can do this in IE8 as well....I found that I could use the "new editor" with IE8 while the old editor does not work at all with that version of Explorer.

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A Few Fun School Projects

One of the best things we ever did this year was to switch to Apologia science.  Wow! Is an understatement.  The whole approach is different. Instead of blasting kids with little bits of info on a ton of topics for half of the year, they dig deep and spend the whole year on a specific area of study.  Olivia studied Creation with Botany.  She used to dread science, but this year she did it all on her own with no prompting.  She now loves science. 

One of the experiments she had to do was to build a light hut out of a cardboard box.  This was one of the first experiments.  Then as the plants grew, the experiments dealt with her growing plants! So much fun.  She made it entirely by herself! First she lined the box with foil. Then cut a hole in the top, cut a hole in a yogurt lid, then put in a light bulb.



From her plants, she's made soaps, pressed flowers, dissected flowers, studied different types of leaves and seeds.... the list goes on and on. It's so neat how the experiments all build on each other, linking all the information studied.  It was so much fun.  These plants all started from seed just a few weeks ago! They are going into our garden. Yummmm.



Who knew school could be so much fun!

Oh, some "fun" things her and Lauren also grew in the light hut were these cute sock grass people!  They filled socks up with soil then sprinkled grass seed on top of the socks and watered.  In a couple of weeks they had hair! In this picture, the girls trimmed their "hair" into wild styles for fun.  Silly girls.

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Backyard Treasures

Yesterday, while the kids were splashing away in the pool, I took a leisurely stroll through my yard to enjoy all the gorgeous flowers in bloom.  From peonies heady with fragrance, honeysuckle sweet with aroma, clematis clinging to the fences, to the tall and stately lupines, they were all beautiful. I love early summer in New Hampshire. Everything is green and lush and fragrant.  Fields lining the highways are picturesque speckled with white daisies and purple lupines.  The simple, yet wonderful blessings God gives us is truly inspiring.

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Natural Faces Young Model Most

If the images are artistic, they are only so to a degree that does not interfere with the beauty of the model in studio dancing with red cloth to assure the best results in your search with almost no experience as artistic pictures model

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