Full Bloomed Flowers!

About 2 weeks ago my moms moss roses and salvias were in full bloom, until the fawns figured out that they can eat them. We weren't all to disapointed though, we got to see them at there full bloom and usually that dosen't happen at all.

That Time Of Year...



Its August an you know what that means....Fair. I love the fair but let me tell you registering was horrible this year. Nothing seemed to work smoothly. Setup is this week and on sunday we bring the rabbits up to the fair and on monday (drumroll) .....we show. Showing at fair is one thing i always look forward to. I cant wait!!



I think Oliver is looking pretty good.



A Sunset

Fair Photos!

Its Official, I have Chosen the pictures i will be entering into the county fair. It took a long time to choose but i decided. I entered into two catagorys, 1 print and a group of 4 prints.

These beautifle wild iris will be my single print, this photo was taken at seney national wildlife refuge.

 These beatuifle bird pictures will make my set of four. I must say this is a diverse group of birds however, an elegant trumpeter swan, the majestic eagle, the mallard, and the tree swallow.

Berrys Anyone?



Mulberry





Blackcap berrys 



Blackcap Berry



BERRYS!!!

last night my brother and i picked berrys.

Blackcap berrys, Mulberrys, and a few Raspberrys

We picked 180+ Blackcaps and 200+ mulberrys oh and 2 raspberrys

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On a side note, there is a set of 2 fawns that have been hanging around my house since they were born and last night they were takeing a nap in the front yard.

Isle Royale and Disapointing Waterfalls

To Start, on the way up it was extremley foggy. Above is the Makinac Bridge so foggy that as we drove up to the bridge you still could not see a thing. When we were aproxamitly 100 or so feet away we couldnt even see the towers.

When we got to the U.P it was still just as foggy. As we were driving along senic highway 02 we stoped at a look out / beach and well ... fog.

Once we got into Marquette we searched for waterfalls. We picked out 3 falls to stop at, the morgan (unnamed falls), the tresle falls, and the carp river falls. To say the least i was disapointed... the trestle falls were very disapointing. We folowed the directions exactly and come to find out that they had built a sub-division were the falls are (or were), we didnt get to see them because if the directions were right it was on private property and we didnt want to trespase. The picture above is the carp river rapids, couldnt find the falls. Getting to the rapids wasnt exactly easy, it involved a near verticle hike down and of course a near verticle hike up. By time we were back from the rapids i was tired and disapointed.

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These are various pictures from Isle Royale. It was truely beautifle.  However we had to cut our stay short, we got a radio forecast...rain, rain, rain, and more rain. We did see plenty of squirrels. A snowshoe hare, and alot of flowers.

 Above is a WOLF print. We heard the wolves all through the night.

On the left is a red breasted merganser and on the right is a common merganser. Isle Royale is truely one of michigans most beautifle places.

Pressed Flowers and The Butterfly/Hummingbird Garden

Above is a picture of the butterfly/hummingbird garden i planted for my mom. It looks so beautifle now, the flowers have bloomed and it is fuller. The photo was takn right after i planted it all by myself (my dad and brother were doing their own garden). There is about 7 diffrent kinds of flowers, Lupine, Cosmos, Phlox, Salvias, Dianthus, Asters, Portalaca (spelling?).





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Pressed flowers are one of the easiest things to make. All you need are flowers, heavy books, and a few pieces of paper.

1. Get the flowers you want to press (like the iris above)



2. Place paper in book (so flower juice dosent ruin your pages) and lay the flowers flat on the paper.

3. Place heavier books ontop of the book the flowers are in....

and now you have pressed flowers, you can lamanate them if you want (i lamanate mine) or just keep them how they are. Pressing flowers is a good way to preserve your flowers. This also works on leaves.