Serene Scenery Sunday

Woo, everypup and everycat.  It's me, Dave, here with this week's attempt to add a little serenity to the blogosphere.  Let's start with a look around our gardens, OK?

Here's a look at the bed alongside our driveway:

Remember when Mom first put the stuff in?!?  It's one of the areas that seems happy in our drought.

How about a closer look at the Dragon's Blood Sedum?

One of the nice things about this is that the neighbor pups can stomp on it and leave us cool messages and it really doesn't hurt it much!

Those are among Mom's favorite rocks.  She's done a lot of rock stuff lately, as Zim mentioned the other day.  I won't bore you with it all, but check out this one:

"Pass the BBQ sauce, please!"

Is it just me, or does it look like a boneless, skinless chicken breast?  Mom hasn't found the perfect spot for that one yet.  It's not a problem - it's not too big, so she's just moving it around until it looks right.  Oh... how big is it?  About the size of ... a boneless, skinless chicken breast ...

Moving right along -

We haven't shared a sunset picture with you for quite a while!  How about we remedy that!  Here's one from Monday:

Sunset over the Flint Hills

Nice, isn't it?  It was good to see some clouds even if we didn't get any rain.

Speaking of which - here's a photo Mom took of one of our lavender plants against a stormy sky:

Those clouds didn't bring us any rain, either, but we were under 100℉ for a few days (37.7℃) which was much appreciated!

While we're out back, the Butterfly Weed is going through another bloom cycle!  Check it out:

Mom thinks the little bit of green in the rocks, just to the right of the plant might be a Butterfly Weed starter - so she's all kinds of excited about that!

On the other side of that retaining wall, down and to the left, is where Mom put the Plume Grass.  Check it out!

It's very happy down there and has tons of room!  (Click here to see how it looked just two weeks earlier!)  That puts Mom right into her serenity zone.  Know what else does?  The last variety of Echinacea is blooming!

Tomato Soup Echinacea

Isn't it cool!?!?

That's all the shots we have for you of our garden this week.  We do have one last photo for you, though.  Mom is trying to ID these grasses outside our KSU Veterinary Health Center:

I was just there for a check up or something.  I'm not sure.  I just remember getting tummy rubs and my vet squirting cheese on a cookie for me.  Talk about serenity!

Anyway - any ideas?  It gets a sort of rust color to it, too, and very delicate flower head thingies.  Mom's thinking Switchgrass, but isn't sure.  She'd like to add some to our gardens!

I hope you enjoyed today's post.  Are you feeling more serene now than you were before?  Woo!

Luv,
Dave