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Thank you Santa!

Look who Santa helped me catch on film! Santa brought me a wild game camera that my husband strapped to a tree out in our wild area and I got pictures of this nice buck coming for Christmas dinner at our house.
You can see from the tag that it was 76 degrees and he came to eat at 5:12 in the evening. He had a nice dinner of some corn and sunflower seeds that I put out along with some water in a big dog bowl.

Isn’t it cool?

My sweet husband, I mean, Santa, is always looking out for me — finding new and fun toys for me to use in my blogging.

Thanks, Santa~

By |2017-11-29T23:27:51-06:00December 26th, 2008|Blog, christmas, Sharing Nature's Garden|9 Comments

Happy Holidays

We wish you a Merry Christmas (or the celebration of your choice) and a Happy New Year.  Just a few quick pictures around the house — today I am Sharing our Decorations instead of Nature’s Garden!
This is my favorite new decoration — given to me by my dear friend — it is a hand-painted image of our beloved Sierra, who passed away in March.  She snuck into my house to borrow a photo for the artist and had her paint this for me.  I cried when she gave it to me.  This is the true spirit of the holidays — a true gift of love that I will treasure forever.

These are my two doggie angel ornaments.  We’ve had the Sami ornament for 9 years, and I added the Sierra likeness this year.  
This is my garden advent calendar that holds these little treasures for every day of the month until the 25th.
This is Kallie’s advent calendar – almost all the doors are empty!  She opened today’s door after I took these pictures and she got a big ‘ol ring with a purple stone.  
This is our collection of carolling Byer’s dolls, given to us by my DH’s parents for years.  

We wish you all a wonderful and peaceful holiday.
By |2017-11-29T23:27:51-06:00December 24th, 2008|Blog, christmas, Sharing Nature's Garden|0 Comments

Ice sculpture…


well, sort of…icicles, for sure. I thought the ice on my fountain made a lovely sight, in spite of the bitter cold that caused it.

You know, it’s not that we Texans can’t handle the cold, it’s the 30+ degree change in the span of ONE day that makes it just a little difficult to adjust.
Last night it was 29 here at Nature’s Garden. But on Saturday it reached almost 80 degrees. Bizarre. I guess it gives us something to talk about.
By |2016-04-14T02:44:43-05:00December 22nd, 2008|Blog, fountain, ice, Sharing Nature's Garden, winter|0 Comments

Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeet………



You’d think this was Minnesota the way the weather acted tonight!

I shot this 10 minutes ago out the back door — this is my dark green patio! 
Sleet loud enough to pelt the windows and howling winds can gusting through here tonight.  (33 miles per hour!)
We also got about 1/10 th of an inch of rain – maybe some more moisture if you add in the sleet.
We sure need the water, but I could have done without the freeze damage only 4 days before the party.
How much you wanna bet all the lovely plants look like…well,… crap, tomorrow?
But, I have to say, it’s right on time.  We always get our first good freeze the week before our Holiday Party.  
I set my watch by it, so I guess it’s good to know that all is right with the world, even if it’s a little chilly for us here tonight!
Brrrr…..

By |2016-04-14T02:44:43-05:00December 9th, 2008|Blog, Sharing Nature's Garden, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Hi from my hiatus…

No photos today, but I’m going to try to snap some tomorrow.

I’m thrilled to report that the Double Pink German Brugmansia is growing new leaves like crazy already!  She likes the greenhouse and adapted faster than I’d have ever guessed, give the roughshod way I handled getting her out of the ground.   I thought she was a gonner for sure.
And while I was spreading out 3 flats of green tomatoes to ripen in the sun out there, I had to rescue 5, yes 5, butterflies in about 10 minutes.  They were all interested in checking out the plants but couldn’t find their way out.   They would have eventually — the 4 windows and doors were open, but I hated watching them all aflutter.
It dropped 21 degrees while I was running errands this afternoon in about 2 hours’ time.  And the gusty-gale-force winds are back, too.  Sigh.  I really could live without the wind.
Tested chicken salad to go into the puff pastry shells for the party today – yummy.  With craisins, pecans, and some grainy  mustard with the mayo.  It will be really tasty.  And I made two pans of Buckeye Bars.  They are essentially homemade peanut butter cups in the shape of a bar.  Omigosh.  They may not make it to the party  🙂
I’ll try to post some party pictures if I don’t get anything photographed before Saturday.
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