A New Dogwood

 5-29-2022

Saturday James came up and we changed the oil in his car, he did all the work while I worked on putting a new seat on the mower.  He had packed it out to the mower because it was really heavy.  He also filled up my pellet cart.  We had a great time working out there together.  Today I got the seat finished up after a run to Harbor Freight and Wilco for parts and decided to give it a try.  Just before I finished up mowing Vera took this picture of me.  The new seat works great, the back's angle adjusts and the arm rests are just the right height.

I have been wanting a picture of the shop's rhodendrons so I took Vera's camera and took this picture. 

Harper came by heading for the fort and Vera asked her to smile and pose for a picture.

Ava was right behind her and Vera made the same request.  They have sure grown up!  It just seems like yesterday that I used to walk over to Dianne's to play with the babies for exercise after my knee replacement.

5-30-2022

Yesterday while getting parts at Wilco I saw that they had dogwood trees.  We were looking for one a couple of day ago and there were none in Castle Rock.  We went down today and picked up this one to fill in the gap in our lilac row.

After I took the picture of the new dogwood I turned and took this picture of the rhodendron and pink dogwood.

Then I took this picture of our other pink dogwood.  Vera always remembers that Michelle and Coleen brought it to her.

There are still lots of flowers to open up.

I spent quite a while getting the picture of a bee in a rhodendron that I liked.  They are really enjoying it, while I was taking the pictures there was the constant drone of the bee's wings.

We have quite a few columbine in bloom.  This is the ones that are by my shop.

The iris seem to be doing great without any care.  We have lots of this color.

I don't know what this iris is called but it sure is pretty!  It was a good day, we got lots of things done and I am feeling great.