Summer flowers

Early morning gardening. Put my three new plants in the ground finally. Blanket flower is the daisy looking one. The small blue flower is lithodoro (?) pretty blue however :). My lemon is potted and on the deck. My purple iris s in bloom along with the butterfly bush! I even transplanted a few wandering day lillies that were starting to get out of the beds they're planted in.












Even the mail box lilies are blooming

Graduation day two

3000 students!!


Where is Liz?


We used the trash can as reference :)


See that blonde hair just below the trash can? About two seats in? Yep, that's her!


Selfie!





And more!


Look she's right next to the podium!


And in the big screen! Go Lizzie!











Proud graduate! Gotta love her!

Liz - graduation

Day one. Cinco de Mayo
Of 3,37X students only 78 were Honors graduates. Lizzie was one of those 78!

Smartie pants!





Next in line!


Dr. Steven Engel, Director, presenting Liz with her Honors metal.

















Dr. Steven Engel with Liz and Sally


The whole gang. (Angela was late arriving and missed the program!)


Dr. Francis Desiderio, Associate Director

Poor Angela missed the event due to getting out of school late. She has to drive out in her own after we got here. Once she arrived we headed out t dinner - her choice.

Where did she choose?


Ok so it really is rated the best





Still no proof that Angie was here as she ditched the photo, but really. She's here too ;)


Great food and a great night. Left Angela with Liz and Sally and Bitch and I headed to the hotel for the night!!

Tomorrow will be an early one with a 9am start!!! Pray for no rain as it's outside!!

Flowers everywhere.

Number one. Never meet mom at Lowes to shop. Bad, bad, bad!! I purchased salt at Lowes, but then the comment was "let's go to Home Depot". Oh, yay!!! Yes, LET'S!!!

So we lost ok for a range hood as planned then went out to the garden section when it was determined that prices in store are horrible.

Garden section is my downfall. I am my daddies daughter for sure!!! Plants!!! Yes, PLEASE!!! I ended up picking up snapdragons. I had tried to plant some from seed in my pots but the dang squirrels or something are digging in the pots. Grrrrr!! BUT Home Depot had small snap dragon plants of dubious color (bloomed and gone)... but I grabbed a healthy one. Walked along and "oooh, these are pretty and $1.98 for a six pack









Why no pictures of the snapdragons? Well they had BIGGER pots of them with known color, so I got that instead!!


So pretty!!!
The. I just happened on this one and was going to put it over by the iris but changed my mind and put it here:



Sooooo pretty!!!

So this afternoon. I came home unloaded the salt and plants then vacuumed the pool algae. The bottom was furry with algae. It was just d of groddy and kinda cool looking. :) yeah I have a lot to learn about how to vacuum algae. The pool is cloudy again and lots more yuck floating! Oh well. I'll vacuum it again tomorrow.

I also transplanted some lonely succulents that were struggling thanks to the birds stealing all of the coconut fibers from their planter boxes. Sigh. Need a new solution to that issue.



And while we are here, these are the iris I replanted last weekend from beside the back door.



The new sun plants are very happy in their new home.


The shade plants are very happy in the shade. There are 8 plants and the very top one (possibly two) was in the worst shape. It has green sprouts that you can't see from this angle. So they are coming back and are happy ;). Yay, I didn't kill them!!


Back to the backyard. By the fence the daisy looking plant is getting buds lots of buds!!!


The dark red iris have more buds than I have seen on them to date was well, may get these to spread out a bit this year?? There are two of these...


It's twin is in the other side... the sprouts are left over from daffodils ;)


Even my transplanted elephant ear is coming up in the corner. We shall see if he tries to take over. If so we will move the daisy and the other clump elsewhere.

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today at lunch I went to a great presentation at the base museum to see George Rishfeld. He was a survivor of the holocaust. What really struck me was his age. He was born in 1939 and I kept thinking. He is YOUNGER than my parents. Dad was 8 years old when this man was born and 10 when he escaped the ghetto.

Had that been my father he would have been impossible to hide at 10. Most families trying to hide children were putting their own lives at risk.

All in all a very touching tale.