A Lily Tour

I went out into the backyard to take a picture of the Stella d'Oro lilies and got pulled along by other colors of lilies. First are the golden yellow Stellas because those are the ones I went outside to look at.

 

Then there's the pale yellow day lily. It's huddled in a patch of orange ones all by itself.

 

Next to it are the old, traditional orange day lilies. These are the ones I dug out of the yard of my parents' house on Liberty Street. They were there when we moved in in 1961. They've been around a long time. Almost as long as I have.

 

On the west side of the house these peach lilies are happily blooming.

 

And finally, tucked into the pampas grass down at the corner of the lot around the streetlight pole are red day lilies. Only one of them was in bloom today but here are about three of them tangled up in all the grassy leaves.

 

GBB was right. It takes more than a little hail to keep rhubarb down. I cut about two-thirds of it right after it got beaten up and left the rest to see what would happen. Well, the shredded leaves have perked up and new leaves have sprouted. It's doing just fine, thank you very much. I'm so relieved.

 

I was lucky enough to catch three Sparrows on the suet nuggets at one time. The one on the right rear is nearly hidden behind the red-orange Oriole orb but he's there nibbling away.

 

Today's drawing is a Rose. I switched to the 10-Step Drawing: Floral book and they have a lot of faith in people because the rose is the first one in the book. Don't want to start with something easy. That would be silly.

 

This afternoon I spent a lot of time on my feet working to beef up the cozy mystery manuscript that I want to tackle next after I publish the next and last The Seaview Series book. I'm hoping to get it out by the fall so I'll have the mystery to play with when I'm at The Clearing in early October.

 

At Friday Night Knitting tonight I made a lot more Teddy Bear #2 progress than I thought I would. I knitted the whole head front and back, and then started on the second set of arms. All that's left once I finish the arms is 12 rows of the behind, then the backs of the legs. After that it gets clipped together, the face gets embroidered on, and it gets sewn up and stuffed. Then I cast on and knit a scarf to tie around the neck.

 

I'm hosting local knitting friends next Thursday night so I searched my recipe file for something to make. I think I've settled on Chicken Tacos. I've got the cooked chicken already in the freezer so all I need is a jar of salsa and toppings. I made a list.

OJ has two soccer games tomorrow and one on Sunday. He's going to be a tired boy by the end of the weekend. Let's hope the soccer field has dried out some since last night.

--Barbara