SUMMERTIME

Home for 42 days and not one day on my blog.
What can I say/it rained, it was dreary, we had storms; it was cold. So goes June. 
July still has wind, rain and storms/but warmer weather to help cope with all of it. 
Our yard has been blooming. I've been planting perennials, so the garden is up and ready to bloom upon our return from Florida. It's working...

Some of my yard art, featured in the front of the daisy garden. 

The new garden I started this year.

Stepping stone garden with strawberries in back of it. 

Daisy "fence" with crooked willow tree planted in the rock circle. 

 We have been trying to out think the squirrels for years.  We usually end up applauding them, for their crazy antics and persistence in feasting on the bird seed that we put out in "squirrel proof" feeders. 
This year we have a new resident in our yard~a black squirrel.  It is very brave and agile. Climbing into the sunflower feeder hanging in the middle of the yard and also coming up  on the deck     to say, "Good Morning" to me. 




If he/she only knew the seed is in the metal cans!  So far, even the raccoons that scrounge around at night haven't cracked into the cans yet.  
Maybe I am outsmarting them? 

Pretty flowers in the yard.