From ace commentor / fisherman / photographer Raven:
We were worried we’d miss the roses while we were at the beach but we didn’t!
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What’s going on in your gardens, this week?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
When we show up, we win.
Not loving this new fraud based economy.
Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.
Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.
It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.
The lights are all blinking red.
People are weird.
You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.
Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.
“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.
Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.
If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.
Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.
Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.
Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!
You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.
Second rate reporter says what?
“I was told there would be no fact checking.”
These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.
Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.
The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.
He really is that stupid.
OzarkHillbilly
Your Wife’s garden is a miracle of nature. And her touch.
eclare
That is so pretty, Raven! I don’t have a garden, but I’m still happy MEM got five to six hours of rain yesterday.
Has anyone heard from Quinerly? I hope those fires in NM are nowhere near her.
WaterGirl
Especially love the roses right outside the window. So charming!
Baud
Lovely.
debbie
So beautiful!
MagdaInBlack
Love the roses and oooooooh yesss! @ the big red poppies Thank you ❤️
Sure Lurkalot
A good deal of recent plantings are in my house and garage to avoid the last 2 nights of freezing temps and snow. So today, the pots, large and larger, will get lugged back outside. Have a dolly and Advil.
MagdaInBlack
I whacked back Ruby the Giant Geranium ( too leggy after winter inside ) and stuck the cuttings in a pot full of soil. They never missed a beat, one had a bloom and its still blooming. I’m pleased with this wee bit of gardening I get to do.
kalakal
That’s really lovely. What a great garden, love the foxglove
jnfr
So nice to see the flowers. Many of my perennials were just starting to bloom and then we had the snow yesterday. I don’t yet know what has survived, but I already had my ancho peppers planted out and I’m sure they didn’t appreciate it.
JPL
Raven, It’s gorgeous, and what a beautiful spot to return after vacay.
MazeDancer
Beautiful! Nice digitalis, too.
MaiNaem mobile
The roses are beautiful. I love the natural look of the garden.
CaseyL
‘@MaiNaem – Me, too! It looks like Raven and Mrs. Raven’s own little faerie land.
debbie
Raven should consider getting a Ring camera or something similar so his princess can check in on the garden whenever they’re out fishing.
raven
Oh, I didn’t think they’d get posted! Thanks Anne! We’ve been back a week and the roses are fading but she has it planned out so there is always color. The drought is getting more serious and we’ll see if it breaks this week.
raven
debbie We’ve got blinks up in the front but she’s never mentioned putting them in back. Her stuff covers two properties so it would probably take more than one.
opiejeanne
‘@Raven, That is a very nice garden. The poppies and roses and foxgloves and salvia, artfully placed to suggest a certain wildness, that the garden just happened, but we know better.
I dreamed of pots of plain red geraniums in full bloom last night. I blame the drugs (cough syrup with codeine).
oldgold
I may have to rename West of Eden to West of Camden Yards.
Yesterday, arising at the crack of noon, even though a liberal, not fullly woke, I thought I heard my much Better Half say, “I saw 24 Oreos!” Great, she is taking me off my spartan diet – only 3000 calories a day. Finally, something good to eat around here and I might even be tempted to down a healthy glass of cow juice.
“The orange was was so brilliant,” she said. Hmm, Halloween Oreos
in May? Damn, probably stale.
“They were singing their hearts out and putting on a wonderful aerial display – do you want olive oil on your kale salad? “
That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
StringOnAStick
I was so tired from yesterday’s garden Labor that I forgot to bring the tomato starts back inside last night. It was the first night without a freeze and they look fine, so it’s time to plant them outside. They’ll have Wall O’Water protection that has been set up for a week to warn the soil.
WaterGirl
‘@oldgold
So cruel! Even if unintentional.
dexwood
We passed an auto repair shop yesterday that had a large sign in front – I’m so excited about Spring I wet my plants. It made us chuckle, but we’re easily amused.
frosty
Raven, these pix are lovely. No one in our house is a flower gardener. I may have to give it a modest attempt – at least start learning about what to plant.
stinger
How beautiful — roses and delphiniums. Lovely.
susanna
Raven-
Lordy, that’s a lovely garden! I also like the wildish look of it, and appreciate the artistic rose flow that’s admired from both sides of the windowpane.
Kudos to you and your bride.
lowtechcyclist
I don’t have a garden, but we’ve got six or seven big-ass tulip poplars in the yard, so lately everything’s been covered with a blizzard of tulip poplar petals.