Photographing Children

My hat is off to all the photographers out there who get such perfect pictures of children. I attempted to take a great picture of my two grandchildren from Tennessee while they were visiting this week. Trying to get a good shot was next to impossible with these wiggly worms. Can’t you just see the devil in their eyes?

Whoops..moved again.
Trying to get them to show a little love didn’t work either.
This is about the best I could do.

Ok, I give up!

Random thoughts on a Tuesday evening

Grandchildren

There is nothing more fun than when the grandchildren all are here. They do the craziest things. Here’s Dan climbing up a telephone pole..just for the heck of it.

NO pictures of Sean, he was too busy running around and playing. I love this pictures of Sara and Sadie looking out the window at the chipmunks who frequent the bird feeder.

Busy, busy

I’ve been missing in action on my blog for a while now. I’ve been busy with my family. Over the weekend we celebrated Don’s birthday with a large party.
There was great company, lots of delicious food and a fun time for all.

Landscaping continues

The landscapers were here yesterday and weeded and cleared out under the weeping cheery. Today they are back and hope to get the topsoil in and the beds ready for planting.
It really looks empty now with everything gone. We have been getting ready for Don’s unbirthday party on Saturday. He will be seventy and it’s a good cause to celebrate. The outdoors is looking good.
 

Life

Kim Klassen’s lesson for today was to find a quote about life and use it with a picture.

Big Question

I am so wondering what my new landscape will look like.

Landscaping Part three

It’s the start of a holiday weekend so only two kids showed up to weed the back bank yesterday. They took out an overgrown forsythia bush and some tiger lilies that had been there forever. It’s hard to see some things go that I planted, but I hope the end result will be worth it. Right now it looks pretty blank.

landscaping part two

It’s the end of the day and all the workers have left. There were three younger people weeding the back bank and pulling out all the buttercup roots. They worked hard but still it was a difficult task.

It looks very different.

So does the area by the picket fence.
It has really opened things up.

All of the shrubs are gone except for one rhody that was saved.

It’s amazing how you notice the stone.


It looks very bare right now.
I can’t wait to see what the landscape architect has planned for me.  

Landscaping Part one

Take a deep breath.  That’s what I’m telling myself as we have made a major decision to completely relandscape around our home. We have been here almost 40 years now and have loved the location. It’s a great place to live on a quiet street. Because our house is brick it has been easy to care for. We have changed some things around the house since the addition by adding a courtyard and bank landscaping. We also added a picket fence garden area around the side. But we’ve never done too much to the front over the years.
     In the spirit of “one thing leads to another” we thought about having professional landscapers come in and help us with a problem we’ve had out back on our bank. There was water in one spot that we couldn’t deal with. Then we  decided that why not completely redo the front of the house too and bring it up to date with new landscaping. After contacting Tom O’Brien we made a plan and today the landscapers are here.
  Yes, the rhodies are beautiful this time of year, but so overgrown.
    Now they are gone except for one I’m keeping in the front which will be trimmed back.
All of a sudden you can see more of the front of the house and the lovely stonework.



The large bushes near the house on the side have been taken out leaving a large space and opening it up. I’m lovin’ it already.