Beans and Sweet Flowers

I just had to show you what a little fertilizer and rain can do. Remember the beans that I planted in the mounds just the other day...take a look at these beans now...as soon as we harvest Michael's "carrot sticks" we plan to put in four more hills.

Last week, Skyer came down to play. He lives two doors up the street. When it was time to go home, his Mom came down to get him. I had been working in the yard all day. She said that we must be the hardest working family on the street. She is amazed at all of us, Sarah and Michel included, work so hard. We got to talking and found out that her Mom was a gardener. She went home and brought a shadowbox picture frame of her Mom's garden and little gardening trinkets. Then a few days later she came with this little flower. She said that her Mom always called it a Surprise Lily. She found them in the flower boxes at the house she lives in now and that is that sold her on buying the house. I looked into my big gardening encyclopedia and found it to be a rain lily. The blossom is closed until it rains...then you get this...a delicate pink blossom...I love it. Right now we have three blooms and at least four more coming on.