Serene Scenery Sunday

Woo, everypup and everycat!  It's me, Dave, here with some photos to help get you into a wonderfully serene state of mind.  Let's start with a panoramic sunset!

Sunset over the Flint Hills.  And the neighbors' roof.

For the record, there weren't two moons out, accompanying the setting sun; I think Mom has a speck of dust or something on the lens of her iPhone.  Woo.

Remember the PowWow Wild Berry Echinacea we planted on one of our south-side-of-the-house tiers?  Let's go check in on them!

I sent Mom over the walls for some close ups!  Check these out:

I like that bold pink!  

You know what else is bold pink and blooming?  Some of the mums out front!

This is their time to thrive, so I'm sure we'll be sharing more pix of them with you in the weeks to come!

Tucked in the back part of that part of the garden is one of our Russian Sage plants.  This is a Lacey Blue Perovskia - we thought the drought/heat and a certain friend of Zim's who stomped it shortly after Mom planted it had killed it, but it's making a come-back!

"Привет."
(Oh.  I studied Russian at the SZK School of Siberian Studies for a while.
I thought it would help the Russian Sage if I greeted it in its own language.)

If you look closely, like I was, you can even see some of the purple flowers!  (Mom found the brick chunks when she was digging in the garden and put them there to help protect the plant.)

Speaking of digging in the garden, Mom took out a bunch of dead bushes and put in three new-to-her kinds of sedum.  Here's one of them:

That's a Lime Zinger Sedum in front of one of the Blue Dune Grasses she planted earlier this season.  I like that name - Lime Zinger!  You know who really likes that name?

"Now that's a cool name for a plant!  And I can sedum from here!"

Ha woo.  Even when he's in his Zen of Zim Zone, he's funny!

You know what else we can see from way up here on the deck?  The "14-inch" ornamental grass.  Take a look!

Plume Grass

The facts that (1) Mom checked the label before she planted the grass and that (2) the plumes are about 10 feet tall now make her serene.  Ha woo.

That's all I've got for you this week.  I hope you feel as serene from all of this as I do.

Me, Dave, so thankful for all the beauty that surrounds us.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Luv,
Dave