Category Archives: Gardens
Beautiful Flowers of the Garden Isle
Kauai, “The Garden Isle”, certainly lived up to its name, with lush tropical plants and flowers spilling over every surface – I felt as if I had entered another world!
The condo we stayed at in Kauai had a lovely gardens all around, and a wonderful orchid garden in front.
I enjoyed seeing so many gorgeous plants and flowers – what an amazing place! Please take a minute to look at my slide show of flower photos from Hawaii and let me know what you think :)!
*Click Here to see a Slide Show of 30 Flower Images from Kauai*
A Lovely Visit to the Botanical Garden
I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;
I will tell of all your wonders.
I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
Psalm 9:1&2
On Thursday we met Chris at the Botanical Garden for lunch. It was a GORGEOUS day! We also saw our friends Laurie and Brett there too, which was a nice surprise :). After Chris left to go back to work, we explored the Children’s Garden and Butterfly House a bit before heading home.
Julia sticks her tongue out for almost every photo these days! Of course Gabe has to imitate her for laughs!
The Circle of Life for a Monarch Butterfly!
Check out the photo below, do you see the “before and after” of the monarch butterfly? I thought it was so neat to see both forms sharing the same leaf!!
We truly experienced how amazing God’s creation is!
The fall foliage behind this fountain looked so beautiful! I hope we can fit in lots of visits to the Botanical Gardens this autumn :).
Photo Books!
Just wanted to share a link to yesterday’s post on my scrapbooking site:
My Photo Book Ideas PLUS Free Greeting Cards.
I know many of you are not scrapbookers, but you still might enjoy looking at the photo books :). Enjoy!
Flickr Update
Sorry, just a quick update tonight (I’m working at VBS this week so I haven’t had a lot of free time)! I have started adding the flower photos from our recent trip to my Flickr account. I still have a lot to go through, but if you want to see the ones I’ve uploaded so far (including pictures of some rare Ladies Slippers) you can click on my Flickr sidebar link or click here. Enjoy :)!
Gardening with Gabe
All winter long Gabe kept asking if we could plant a garden in the spring, and on Wednesday morning we finally had our chance!
Gabe enjoyed the process and Julia liked being outside on a beautiful spring morning.
This is our first gardening experiment, so we decided to start small and just plant in some containers on the deck. We planted cucumbers and lettuce, and we are also going to plant some green beans and flowers too. We will try peas at the end of the summer. Come to think of it, I’d love a tomato plant or two as well. I hope we have at least one success!
Our neighbors are really good at gardening, we are inspired by their landscaping and huge crops of vegetables! P.S. Notice that Julia let Lettie hold her and didn’t cry, usually she only wants us to hold her!
