The Wigglebutt Blog

If you've been around for a while, you may recall that last summer we did a little yard work☺ You can read a little about it here Essentially, we completely started over with our yard. The only section that we didn't complete was this one Unfinished raised bed area - Aug 2012 This is the area we tackled this year. So, on Mother's Day weekend we started.... Honey made 4 trips with this bad boy and we ended up with 20 yards of gravel. This is May 11 and you will notice there are no leaves...any where:( Let me tell you that is a lot of gravel folks☺ Well I shoveled and shoveled (and no, Honey doesn't shovel). I have had very bad luck with delivered bulk top soil,  it always seems to be really poor quality, as in ~ nothing will grow:( so for these beds we went with a mix of "garden soil" and "potting soil" in the bags so the next day Honey went and got the first of the soil. 48 - 2cu ft bags. (those pup...

I have been wanting to get in on this for quite a while now with  Lori Plyler over at Studio Waterstone . I really want to improve my camera skills. Hopefully this will help☺ I haven't spent ANY time on jewelry or sculpting (I miss it a lot) because I have been a "woman on a mission" this summer. We built a greenhouse so I could (hopefully) grow tomatoes and then I decided I was done trying to bring a dead lawn back to life, so we started over. A lot of work and the weather has only cooperated some of the time;-( I will  post about the greenhouse progress in a day or two (it really is amazing) But for today I have some Macro shots that I think came out quite well. They are all OOTC shots. (Out of the camera, no photoshop)  Soon to be a Roma  Tomatillo Blossom  Not a little paper lantern  Greenhouse Marigold  Fireweed Blossom   Squash Blossom  My New Yard The grass seed has started sprout...