Tag Archives: Bowman North Dakota

June!

Here we are on one of the nicest days in one of the nicest months of the year! I plan to get out to the garden and dig up just a little more grass so I can plant just a few more sunflowers. Then I will touch up the lime green patio, some flower pots, [...]

In the Lovely Month of June

It was a marvelous day in June, with plenty of sunshine, the singing of birds, and the fragrance of lilacs in the air. I finished planting marigolds, created a couple more short blue trellises, touched up the patio chairs while I was at it, and put more vine seeds and orange sunflower seeds into the [...]

Marigolds, Sunflowers, and Daylilies

I spaded up a little more grass today to make room for sunflowers. By now, I have a mixture of orange tithonia torch  Mexican sunflowers, lemon queen sunflowers, vanilla ice sunflowers, mammoth Russian sunflowers, moonshine branching sunflowers, and teddy bear sunflowers. What wonderful names!  Who knew there were so many kinds of sunflowers? I sure didn’t, [...]

In the Yard and Garden

I’m still gardening away, planting seeds and flowers in the front yard, backyard, in pots, wherever I can find a spot that needs some color. My father helped me create a couple of lath trellises yesterday, and I think I’ll paint them lapis lazuli blue to match some of my patio chairs and tables. Blue [...]

Evening in May

It’s a lovely evening, with everything fresh and green, even if it’s still a little breezy. I’ve put my drawings on the back burner so I can get things planted. Things like flower seeds, coleus plants, wave petunias, tomatoes, radishes, bleeding hearts, lilies, etc. etc. The wind might have been a little hard on the orange butterfly [...]

After the Storm

Well, the sky is partly blue, it’s 39 degrees, and we have a bit of spitting snow. A lot of the snow has already melted, and that is a very good thing! Here’s a photo of the church and hills north of Bowman.  

Snowy Garden

I looked out the dining room window just a little while ago, and I could still see the iris and tulip garden, although it looks quite a bit different from yesterday. Snow seems so much more attractive in the very early days of winter, don’t you think? Maybe it’s because of all the Christmas songs… [...]

Tulip Forms

I looked up the weather forecast this afternoon, and saw that we may be in for another heavy snowfall. I sincerely hope they are mistaken, but just in case they aren’t, I went out to the backyard and photographed tulip buds and their curvy leaves. I’m not exactly sure what eight inches or more of [...]