Some of the Iris in June

The bottom two photos are Siberian Iris, the other ones are tall bearded Iris.
I have watered the house and deck plants today.  We have had a tiny bit of rain.  I could wish for more.
The Boston Bruins have won the Stanley cup winning the 7th game of the final series against the Vancouver Canucks 4 to 0.  The expected riots happened in Vancouver.  It does not matter if they win or lose, there are idiots who seem to be infected with this destructive crowd mentality.  Well, this should free up more of my time, now, although I really don't feel very motivated to do anything.  Disappointing to see our team lose.  They played good hockey over the whole series.  The last 7 games were very rough compared to the games played against the other teams.  One of the Canucks suffered a serious back injury.  They all must be covered in bruises.  They really looked tired and battered tonight.

Some Gardening Stuff

Pat got home on Sunday. Thanks Dan and Irene for all you have done to help him get his 1912 Ford Torpedo Roadster. As the car is not yet completed or drivable, it is still in Dan's trailer. They might bring it up to us in a couple of weeks.

Yesterday Pat got some good groceries in. We had a scrumptious salad with avocado and scallops with peaches and frozen yogurt for dessert. A chardonay white wine. Yumm

This is a macro photo of the Iceberg Rose that blooms prolifically by the front door. The other one is one of the iris shots from June. I used these 2 photos on Flickr to thank Cyrus and Ken for their help in getting the ban lifted from the Canon Macro group, that this shithead control freak calling herself Captain Morgan... go figure .... put on me. The Admin of the group.. Greetz made me a Moderator along with her of the Group. Too funny. Hopefully that weed will soon be weeded out of the Canon S3 IS group. She deleted their entire Welcome thread because it was too long. Good grief what an idiot.

Gardening stuff? Oh yeah. I attached the old yellow sprinkler and it worked perfectly this year, and got some of the back watered. I filled the pond. I saw 5 of the new fish hanging around under the water fall. One of them was small like they were when I bought them. The others were twice the size. I wonder what happened to the tiny one. We had some red lettuce from the veggie garden, but the rest of the stuff is not going to amount to much. I have no idea why things are not growing in that soil. I shall have to add more manure I guess. Regular watering would help too, I guess. The yellow plums are almost ready. The first figs are starting to get brown. I need to mow the lawn and continue with dead heading, weeding and watering. In the Fall, I shall have to replace the little cedars along the fence by old weird's place. Funny how the cedars there all died but not the ones at the front that are in soil that is much more clay! The old baggage has been killing my trees.

Pete and Audree stopped in for a short visit on Saturday. Was good to see them. Hopefully we will get together with them at month's end for a week end and a trip to Steeples for a gala dinner for their anniversary. I don't know what they will do with their new little puppy. It is so cute and smart. They are getting it paper trained already and it even listens to them when they tell it to stop biting or barking.. its really just doing a natural puppy play thing, but it obeys them really well already.

Iris

This is another one for my Iris series on Flickr, if ever I get it done. I just liked the colors and composition on this one.

I got out in the garden for a bit today. I thought there was a lot to do, but there just isn't that much to keeping it up right now. It rained last night and a few bits today, so I do not have to water which is a great time saver.

The white water iris is blooming and I should get out and shoot it before it is gone. Most of the other irises are finished. The big purple and gold water iris in the pond has many buds on it. It is going to incredible when its in bloom.

We had baby lettuce, chives, and radishes from the garden, with an avocado, in the salad. Very nice sweet tender lettuce.

The new site (not to be mentioned, just yet) is looking really good. I have been spending quite a lot of time on it this last week. I think it might be a nice place to be. PN is the same old crap plus flashing ads. Flickr has some good info, especially on the S3 IS group. But unless you go about commenting and faving you get very little attention. That kind of false attention, I don't need.

Tall Bearded Iris - Bronze

My Irises are in bloom. This is one variety of the tall bearded iris - I have lost the name of it.
This is a photo study of the bloom, not the best background, and perhaps when I do the next one, I should get better photos of the falls.