A Day on the Farm

Our daughter-in-law, Kristi, surprised us this morning by arriving before we even awoke and weeded our garden around our creek, waterfalls and pond.  How wonderful is that?  A few hours later our youngest son, Travis, showed up with the our two grandsons, 2 & 3 years old.  Here they are below on Grandpa's tractor. 

Below is Kristi, hard at work.

Below you can see H on the deck and Grandpa with C on the Kubota riding lawnmower.

Below Kristi rides on the tractor with Travis.

Below is my youngest grandchild.. baby C.. with his adorable curly locks.. and chocolate all over his mouth from granola bars grandma gave him.

3 year old H.. he's so cute!  Funny story.. he kept asking me to give him fish food for the pond fish - they're little round pellets.. we finally noticed that he was EATING the fish pellets himself!  Ugh! LOL

And this is the best... Grandpa had baby C on the tractor with him and motioned me to come see.. C was asleep in Grandpa's arms as they trundled along on the diesel tractor.  Awwwwwwwwwww!

And here are some flower photos I took around the farm yard.. below is a Chive flower.. so pretty!

I'm a sucker for lime green foliage, here is a Fuchsia that came back from last year, it's a hardy variety.

Below are some of my Shooting Star, a wildflower that grows in shady damp bogs... I have the pot in the creek bed and the plant is very happy.  I could not get the color to show right, these are lavender flowers.

A close up of the center of one of my Bearded Iris - this is a very odd colored one, kind of pink-beige.

The fuzzy throat must be where it got it's name.. "bearded".

Another of my lime colored plants, I can't remember what this is, but it's a nice ground cover.

A pretty patch of my "Star-of-Bethlehem".  Sooo pretty!

Forget-me-nots.

Another "Mystery Flower"... I call it "Beauty Bush"... but I'm not sure that is it's real name.

A close-up.. aren't these tiny flowers amazing?  They look kind of like a little orchid.. the flowers have these cute little fuzzy frilly "collars" at the base of the flowers.  Do you know what this is?

And then I was standing under my red maple and looked up and the sun was shining through the leaves and it was so pretty.

A "Coral Bell".

The rosebud Pink Azaleas opening up more....

And I thought that the Honeysuckle buds were cool looking.

I hope I didn't over-do the photos on this post!

Thanks for coming to visit and also thanks for the nice comments on my other posts -- you all are the best.

((hugs)), Teresa :-)