Window Box Planting

I just love my window boxes! Our garage is a side entry and our windows face the street. This is the window box on the left side. Ignore the refections of our gardening tools that were out that day!
Window box on the right. In the front there is a Japanese Maple Tree, Holly bushes, and many, many, perennials. The Vinca that you can see hanging from the box reseeds in my garden every spring. I just cut off several pieces and stick them in the dirt!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!! I'm spending the day with my family today. My DD came in from Chicago and we are having friends and family over for dinner and fire works.
The picture above is a Columbine bloom. I started the plant, by seed, last year and it bloomed this year!

St. Louis Summer

I'm having such a hard time with posting pictures and lining up the typed words, so I decided to list the flowers at the bottom.
Pictures starting at the top are: Sweet William, Salvia, Red Hot Pokers, Peony Poppy ready to pop, Speedwell, and Gallardia. All started by seed...by me!

Random pictures of my garden

Just some random pictures of my garden. Since I'm still in a walking boot, I haven't been able to do much gardening this year, but I do enjoy taking pictures!
Can you tell I love blue flowers?

What A Life!

My two Cairn Terries! I love them to pieces, and they bring joy to me each and every day!
Scout is on the left. We found Scout through the newspaper. Not the best place to find a dog, but we had been looking for Cairn Terriers for several years and kept coming up empty. Scout was 10 weeks old when we adopted her and at the time, she was all black. You see, Cairns change colors, and within a years span, can change from an all black dog, to a wheaten (blond).
Finch, on the right, came from a breeder. I found Finch through a website. I had mentioned that we were searching for another Cairn, and a member emailed to let me know that she had a friend that breeds Cairns. After a lot of communication, we adopted Finch! She was only 2 weeks old, so we had to wait until she was 8 weeks old before she could come home.

Finch is 4 years old today! As you can see, she loves balls! Finch is usually carrying something in her mouth....either a ball, or a Frisbee. She know all of them as "balls".

Scout, above left, is almost 6 years old. Her birthday is April 1st! She our quiet one. She loves to observe lift from a corner of the world. As Finch is running around chasing balls, Scout is in a corner, watching carefully, while listening to nature.