Garden "Hardware" (A.K.A. junk)...I promised my fellow blogger, Snappy, that I would post pictures of my frog and bunny ornaments awhile back, and I did take pictures last weekend, but haven't been able to bring it together yet. So here's my high school ceramics class project...my boyfriend at the time, Bill...now known as "poor Bill", cuz' my mom tossed him on her burn pile after she assumed I no longer wanted him since I had moved away. Unfortunately, he didn't really look that much better before...my talent in pottery was less in human subjects than in pipes and bongs (hey, it was the 70's ;)...so now poor Bill has his final resting place in the garden-he can make the less attractive wildlife feel better about themselves, I think! More pics to follow soon...didn't realize how much decorative crap I really had until I started taking pics of it all...absolutely NO plastic flowers though!!

The Spiders From Mars...not from my garden, fortunately-but in some places, they are. I've been "spider-sitting" for my son all summer, and he came to get them tonight. I'm actually rather sad, even though they really aren't my kind of pet-I'd never handle them for sure. But I got used to feeding them crickets...they're very interesting. I even got to witness one of them doing her first "puberty dance"-kind of swaying back and forth, tapping her butt on the ground...and ever since she's been really aggressive-sounds like normal puberty to me! My son even offered/threatened to buy me one for Christmas, since I took such good care of them....I may actually take him up on that!

So here's the "after"...much bigger project that I anticipated (as most are), but I "got er' dun"...what an awesome feeling! I ordered some wildflower seeds over the weekend, too...think I'll try some Twinleaf in this area, since it likes shade. The bricks were a real b*%tch! They are actual pavers from a local street, and I had to bust them apart from some heavy-duty mortar...no fun! But I'm sooo glad to be done.....yay!

Ok...so here's the real "before" pic of my weekend project...I later realized my prev. post was from 2005...thought the plants looked small...whoops...anyhow...

"Desdomona" blooming....strikes me as a tad odd that a plant looking nothing like a daisy has a daisy-looking bloom-but I'm sure not gonna look a "gift-bloomer" in the mouth! I'm just glad it's so happy...cuz' I am, too! Love this holiday weekend so far...beautiful weather, made lotsa progress on my big project...it's all good!