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These were our July 4th mini-desserts for after the barbeque, lightning-bug chase, and sparkler / poppers blowout. 

I've decided to spring for a larger memory account at the photo sharing website, Flickr. You can click here to see the photos in a str...

I've got a landscaping dilemma. When facing my house, the left side is horribly unbalanced with the right as far as visual landscaping ...

Here's the right side of the house (when facing it directly). Now, see how much is going on here? There's the purple maple that I...

Don't you wish you had one of these, right now? A frozen mojito with new shades of purple verbena on the back deck. 

Thank goodness - the previously parched verbena are coming back, and eager to bloom! 

More surprise lillies! Not sure what kind these are but their stalks have a handful of additional buds yet to open. 

I am not sure what this is. It bloomed at the top of what looks like a bushy weed, except it was in the landscaped section of the yard, so ...

My yucca is now in full bloom - I love this plant. I was disappointed to run into one just down the block...but it's not nearly as tall...

These little pentas are doing just great. They are (so far) totally worry-free. 

Here's the branch that embedded itself in the yard during the last batch of storms. It was a pain to get out of the ground....

This is the post-extraction shot. The branch, which I later realized broke into 3 long pieces, was about 8 ft. It entered the ground with ...

On a Sunday drive today, I spied this hawk flying parallel to the road. I slowed down (dare not stop!), dug out the camera, rolled down the...

This is going to be reeeealy hard to see. Maybe you can click on the image and expand it. I don't have the patience to fool around wit...

Rural Ohio Roadside Laundry. This was a drive-by shot, should have pulled over to get a better image. I wonder if Sunday was this family...