Saturday Garden Taking down the garden

 Hi Everyone!

There won't be many Saturday Garden days. While I was sick in bed, Mr. M. started breaking down the garden. Today I was able to wash 5 gallon buckets to put away. It breaks my heart that, for now, my garden days are over.

Last  year this area was filled with string beans, cucumbers and herbs. Onions are drying on the side. I had so many cucumbers last years that I canned dozens of pints of dill, sweet and bread n butter pickles. Also 50 pints of relishes. 

Behind the beans and squash was sweet potatoes, peas, and carrots. 

Now, it's all gone. We will get the palettes up and either stored away or off to the dump. 

It's going to be difficult to purchase from the store squash, onions, peas, beans, and everything else I have grown for many years. 

This is the squash area. I had a bumper crop of many different kinds of squash last year. 

The beans were long and so good.

The cucumbers huge and very sweet.

All of this just doesn't taste the same from the grocery store.

However, my Italian Oregano will go on the deck 

 

As well as the Saliva 

 

and Peppermint. I removed all of the branches and in a week this Peppermint will be taking over the pot again.

 

Some of you may remember that we had an old outbuilding here. I called it the barn.  

 It had to be removed.

 

The space that remains we let go wild. Mr. M. has planted a few things from the garden and we have a lot of flower seeds all around. I will put up the sprinkler to see what happens this year. 

 

 I guess that's it for now.

Wishing all of you a very nice Saturday. 

Nicole

Friday Face 4/10/26

Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your face art.

You know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, photography, drawings, paintings, AI. There just needs to be a face in your blog post, a link back to my blog and please use the image below. 

Thank you.

I want to thank everyone for all of the well wishes, prayers and healing energy. It has been a tough 7 weeks with lupus/sjogren's but I am pretty much back to what is my normal. A week in bed resting my body and mind helped a lot. Going out into my backyard with no wind and hot sunshine helped too. Although the sun is not good for me, I was covered with a big hat and sunscreen. Just being out in the warm was good medicine. Mr. M. waited on me hand and foot and wouldn't let me do anything except art in bed. LOL

 

The faces I did get done are these.

This first one has more body to it; I just didn't like it, so I cropped the photo.

 

The second one is one of my fake birds. 

I'm just having fun with these.

 

Not much from NightCafe but I do have these pretties I made awhile back.

 The faces of sea turtles.

 

Changed the wording a bit. 

 

Changed the models and got this. Seriously I did not plan this one.

 

I ended with this. 

 

Here are the features for this week. To remind you, I do use a number generator and I'm keeping track so everyone gets featured.

 

Roentar from 

Melbourne Street Photography 

Photos of everyday life. 

 

Heidrun from

Soul and Mind and so on...
Posts that are full and fun. 

 

The time is getting close

for FFO 

Portrait Challenge on April 24.

Create an image with 

one or all of these expressions.

Happy, Sad, Tired, Surprised and or Anger.

 

Also, join in with SITAR. Anything art.

 

That's it for me. 

Now show me your face

Nicole  

No Monster Monday

 Hi Everyone!

I know you will miss my monsters today. Ha ha ha

Because lupus/sjogren's won't let up, I'm going to take the week off from blogging. I will be here for Friday Face OFF. 

 

And don't forget the  

We will show our challenge portraits on Friday April 24th.

Create a face that is happy, sad, tired, surprised or angry. You have the choice to create one or more or all of the expressions.

This is optional, you don't have to be in the challenge. So any face will do.

I'm off rest.

See ya Friday.

Nicole 

SITAR

 Hi Everyone!

Due to Easter and my health I will postpone SITAR until next week. 

Nicole
 

Saturday garden

 Hi Everyone!

Yesterday and today are really beautiful days. No wind, no rain, just sunny days. Still a bit chilly but I will take sunshine any day. 

With the help of Mr. M. I pulled a few herbs plants from my back yard to the front deck. As I have mentioned before I won't be able to garden this year but I do want my herbs to thrive. They made it through a cold winter. 

This is Lemon Thyme. I have already harvested some. 

This is Lemon Mint. Harvested some of this too. 

 

This Lavender plant is doing well 

 

Already blooming. 

 

This is garden Lupine. It is considered an herbaceous perennial plant but not culinary. I just think it's pretty. When it blooms I will show more photos.

This is another Lavender. Spiked Lavender or sometimes referred to as Portuguese lavender. 

I have other plants on the deck but they need some work to make them presentable. 

I just might sneak over to the nursery and get some vegetable plants to go into the big garden.  I don't have to lift, or bend, or do anything to hurt me. Mr. M. may not be too happy........ 

but I can sweet talk him. 😁

Are you growing a garden this year?

 

 Nicole

 

Friday Face OFF FFO

 

Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your face art.

You know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, photography, drawings, paintings, AI. There just needs to be a face in your blog post, a link back to my blog and please use the image below. 

Thank you.

After last weeks drawing a bird I have become entranced with drawing bird heads. So this week you get this one.

Starts like this. 

I used graphite for the beak. 

 

Getting color in 

Ended like this. I tried to get a better photo of the eye. It's very shinny and looks wet but my camera won't capture it.

I've not been very well these last 5 weeks and I'm just trying to use my time creating fun art. Not going for realistic. 

Some AI faces 

Now for some features.

 

Dixie Arranged Words

 

Jeanie The Marmelade Gypsy

A reminder that FFO 

Portrait Challenge is April 24.

Create an image with 

one or all of these expressions

Happy, Sad, Tired, Surprised and or Anger.

 

Also, join in with SITAR. Anything art.

That's it for me. 

Now show me your face

Nicole