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Our Country Cottage,
continued...
Our woodland path, with the brilliant fireweed
blooming beyond.
Our serene and cool backyard, where Jim
nurtured and worried over every blade of grass, and which will
fill in next year when he has more time to work with it.
I was not prepared for the plants to grow as
large as they do up here, and what I expected to be a
pretty sparse first-year perennial garden was too crowded in the
end!
Some flowers did not get planted soon enough, but their roots
developed well, and hopefully they will do well next year, and
develop faster. Jim did a wonderful job on the grass, and
our lawn was beautiful with the backdrop of the strip of
forest, and the corral beyond that, ablaze with fireweed most of
the summer. We were happy with it, with as little time as
we had to devote to it. We had company part of June and most of
July, and then again for two weeks in mid- September. Some years
the garden will be through by this time, but this year it is still hanging on
out there, blowsy and full, and although a bit worn around the edges, it
is still bright and beautiful. The photo above was taken just
about the first of September.
I believe we will let it go a bit longer, as we
just had our first hard frost here last night, and most of it
still looks quite good.
The corral and the entire pasture was bright
with fireweed most of the summer. Fireweed is common over most of Alaska and
part of British Columbia on roadsides and in fields; they are beautiful
flowers when in bloom, but
you hope they are not where you want something else, because
they are very difficult to eradicate.
In the forefront of this photo is our
afternoon seating area. Here we have shade, and almost always, a
breeze, from the pasture just behind the camera.
This shows our morning sitting area, the table
on the front porch. You can see how beautiful the sun, shining
on the corral area, lights up the leaves on the trees, and
brightens the morning for us, without heating up the
house. It is just lovely.
Isn't my window box pretty? I actually
had two of them, and they really
made the house look even more like a country cottage.
And Linnet and Lynn, here are the
lilies. They bloomed just a few days after you
returned to California... aren't they pretty?
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