A day in my Garden Last Year...such peace and beauty and fun

 This archway is being replaces this year as last year it fell apart from the weight of the hops and trumpet vines on it....soon there will be the same things growing on the newer one

 Wow doesn't love a good sunflower?

 Birdhouses her and there- the squirels lave the little ones alone- the big ones, they gnaw out the hole so they can live in there in the winter...sigh

 I have stopped evr purchasing or trading for bird houses as the squirrels always make thg ood ones fall apart.

 My bottle tree (one of them) with things growing up on it. Now it is bare waiting for the vines to wake up and start covering it...I do love my bottle trees

Friends in my garden!

My cottage garden from a distance

My fountain where quail hide with their babies underneath

My garden now looks like all dirt but later on this year it should look alot like this if I can find the time and energy to work hard at it. We do not have automatic sprinklers so between Mark and I we watered all of the time. Now I will have that all on my shoulders so we will see how much garden I save...it is alot of work and alot of walking and pulling etc. But it is so worth it when you sit in a chair and enjoy the quiet and beauty.A green (HUGE PINE) crashed into our arbour and ruined it so they hauled it off and I am having it replaced with the insurance money. It takes the glare off your head when you sit on the patio and gives shelter. It will be right utside the room that Mark will not be in when we get it fixed up. He can hardly make our stairs now and has NO strength like he used to. He is frustrated if he wants to move something or life. Each day he goes a little more downhil but he always thinks me and the kids and our neighbors and anyone for helping him out. I love him more everyday. I am hoping he can sit outside his new little room on the patio and see the birds and squirrels and hear the water in the fountain.  God's beautiful hand in nature is healing for sure...at least for me. Hope YOU enjoy your lovely garden as well.
Love, Mary Lou
PS, the Go-Fund site has over $6000. which is wonderful and will be going off to pay for medical bills (ONLY) http://www.gofundme.com/7z9m5o  I cannot thank those of you who have given to this fund for us. God bless you.