Beautiful morning

The yard is beginning to recover a little from the hail damage of 4/27/11. I have one bloom on two different hydrangeas. You can see just a little hail damage on the greenry.

My daylilies are going to bloom, but it appears that all my asiatic and oriental lily bulbs have been eaten by something since last year. I had a 12 ft, by 3 ft patch, and a single row about 20 ft long. Not one single sprout this year. I don't know what else other than some critter must have enjoyed the taste. Thank goodness they don't like daylilies.

The roofers came today and are hard at work.

Last 2 Blue Hydrangea blooms from Spring City

These are the last 2 blooms from the Blue Hydrangea shrubs I photographed last week along the country road in Spring City, Tennessee.

Thank you for bearing with me as I learn all the quirks of blogging with the new computer.

Fading Hydrangea blooms

These blooms are beginning to fade. The last photograph is the only bloom left on the fading shrubs. All the other photos I have been posting are on 2 other shrubs to the left of these.

This last fresh bloom looks out of place by itself.

And now I find out I can't type where I want to always. And what is it with this Picasa sign stuck up next to the last photograph instead of at the bottom? Go figure!

More Blue Hydrangea flowers

Ok, now I figure out with this new fangled 'thing' that I cannot seem to conquer it won't let me post but 4 photographs at a time. I will post 4 more to go with this. You thought I posted often before, it is going to get worse with this.

This post was going to show you the blooms as they progress, see the next post for that.

More Blue Hydrangea buds

Thought I had it, but this one posted before I was ready too. These are some more from Spring City last week. These are the ones when I just had to do my normal and get a little closer to the bloom. I was so surprised they were so pretty this time of year. There were 2 shrubs right next to these 2 shrubs that were basically finished for the year, these 2 looked like they were just getting started. When you click on the photograph they are still way to large for you to tell anything about them, but I am still working on that.

Hydrangea Buds

Well, I guess I am getting there, except this one automatically posted on its own. Found the blog button in Picasa, clicking on these 4 photos and clicked blog, and it posted. Had to edit to get the words, so am still trial and error time. Getting closer, just bare with me.

These photographs were taken in Spring City at the same time as my other test post.

Blue Hydrangea in Spring City

I took this photograph of a blue hydrangea on the side of the road in Spring City, Tennessee this past week. I am going there 2 nights a week to be with my husband. Since I work evening shift I go out in the mornings to photograph whatever catches my eye. This hygrangea did, and I have some more photographs to share, but I was going to try this one first as my first download since getting this new computer. Because of having trouble with the sizing it took it as long to download as when I was on dialup. Sure am glad I did not get this computer while I was still on dialup, I would have given up blogging totally. Still working on how to do this. Have now downloaded Picasa3, and it is better than either of the other 2 I was trying to use with Vista, but I still do NOT find a resize.

Blue Hydrangea

Blue Hydrangea bushes remind me so much of my Granny and Papa Sorrells' farm. I have many flowers and shrubs that came from that farm. This one is not one of those. This one is in my neighbor's yard. But it still takes me back to that farm and especially to memories of my Granny Sorrells.

I have a wonderful piece of glass I bought to make hydrangea bushes with, these should inspire me to get out there in the shop and make it. Just have to lay down the camera to do that. We'll see.

Hydrangea blooms

I have always been told the color of hydrangea blooms comes from the type of soil. Always had my doubts, due to moving the same plant to 4 different locations in East Tennessee and the blooms stayed blue. These 3 photos were taken outside my daughter's office window. Notice the pink and the blue blooms are so close to each other they can be seen in the same photo.
Hydrangea are another of my favorites, due to the first ones I remember were at my Granny Sorrells' house.