Peg S.
@quiltgrdnr
Quilting 🪡🧵, gardening 💚, and trying to keep all the plates spinning. 🌎 Former Postie on the Blue team.
I'm reading Matt Haig's novel "The Midnight Train". The protagonist's name is Wilbur Budd. I'm struggling with this a bit because our local Wilbur chocolate company makes, well, buds.
Out with the old, in with the new. Our 41 year old AC that got speared by a falling tree limb in our nasty storms was replaced today, so we can be cool!
Memories popping up - Once upon a time my Achilles tendon still mostly worked and I rocked the canyon with my daughter and with Joan @strickmaedel.bsky.social in Wellsboro, PA.
Hello Bluesky, what's up? I don't have any new daylily pics. Between trees falling down, 6" of rain, & 100 deg temps, the garden has about given up. I know I have, I'm going to call it a season and do cleanup, fertilize, and move a number of plants for next year. At least the deck planters made it.
I took a lot of pictures of daylilies the last two days. Good thing. We had a horrific storm tonight that drove us to the basement. I have never seen wind that bad in the 42 years I have lived here. Half of our neighbor's tree came down, the top hit our house and crushed my entire side daylily bed.
I didn't think I had made many but then I looked and there's about 5 that are 2 color! 😄The first quilt I made with my grandmother was a green and white pinwheel. My favorite of the ones I made is a heart quilt for my granddaughter. I recently made a double wedding ring for a wedding gift.
Today's daylilies once were mine but have been freed from their original shady home to a place in the sun and more fertile soil. This is my daughter's front sidewalk. Most of these were only planted in the last 3 years. 😲
Some happy daylilies before the heat wave, and a few coneflowers showing off.
Good morning sunshine! Daylily "Buttered popcorn" will wake up your eyes. 🌞
Today's showstopper is called "Black Stockings". It likes the weather better when it's cool and cloudy so I'm glad it got a start before the impending heat wave.
Years ago when I was redoing a bed, I found a daylily I didn't remember. I moved it several times trying to get it to bloom more than a few distorted flowers. I named it the red mutant. It finally bloomed & the flowers are small but poly with extra petals! I think it must have come up from seed.
It's a drizzly, gray day here but that makes the daylily colors look even brighter. All the plants are happy for whatever moisture comes their way.
I met a lively, fit, fun woman through friends in the running club and we got to be casual friends. Her grandkids called her "Bubble" - a perfect match to her personality! I liked her art and bought 2 of her paintings. Sadly, 2 weeks ago, she collapsed and died with no warning. Seize the day!
It's daylily time! The daylilies are starting to put on enough of a show to override my neglect, and I am starting to catch up a bit. Three scoops of mulch delivered today, only about half of my usual, but I decided I needed to be kind to myself right now. 😄
My bathroom cactus is blooming again. It's been throwing flowers often over the last few months. It has a certain "Dr. Suess" vibe.
Today was the Lancaster Art walk. We stopped in to see the Rocky Springs Carousel animals from the early 1900's on display in their temporary home. In 1981 they were moved from their original spot to Michigan, then to Dollywood, then a $1.2 million fundraising effort brought them back to Lancaster.
The white peacock went up on the perch and the blue one came down and fanned, but he couldn't quite get by the white feathers. 😄
We visited Indian Echo Caverns in Hummelstown PA today, probably for the first time since elementary school. Coincidentally, there were groups of kids there from the school I went to. 😄
Garden work today. More little maple trees have met their maker and the deck back garden is cleaned. I heard unusual birdsong so I quickly started Merlin and the song immediately stopped. 🙄 Still a lot of musical action in the warm weather. The goldfinch won "The Voice" this afternoon.