Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Jun 12, 2007

Flowers

I'd love to ask a truly drunken person to say "Rhododendron". I'm wondering if would it be easy to say it....

We have nice Rhododendrons on our yard next to the boys sand box. Zoom-in and zoom-out pictures.
Zoom-in.Zoom-in.Zoom-out. Most of the toys in the box, surprising!
Dandelions look lovely at this stage. Jaakko giggles when I blow them. We have plenty of them in our yard, so much that I poisoned the lawn tonight. I asked the sales person at the store if the dandelion poison kills small boys, too. Her answer was "not immediately".....
I planted more laveders around the apple tree and oregano, sage, peppermint, rosemary, parsley, dill and rucola and I've put a pot with strawberries on the corner of the patio. My gardener complimented me on the way I did the edge of the lawn!

Apr 25, 2007

Flowers and food

You should've seen Risto's face when he handed me this cute little bouquet of wood anemones. "Happy Mothers' Day!" (I didn't correct him that Mothers' Day is on May 13th). He was so happy, so proud and he knew that he'd make me happy.
A beautiful bouquet on our beautiful dinner table. Looks wonderful when you zoom in. But more interesting is what you see when you zoom out. Ha-haa, reality!!! This is what you're supposed to show on your blog. See the wood anemones middle of table.
The comments of the Finnish jury at the dinner didn't make me happy. Tuomas quite bluntly informed me that he didn't like it, he only ate his cucumber pieces, cherry tomatoes and broccoli. But Jaakko, being just 17 months, is a man of action, not of words, as you can see.
Comments of the Finnish jury: zero points!!!

Apr 23, 2007

Flowers

I should post beautiful pictures, too. My friend gave me this flower for my 26th birthday a week ago (it was my 9th 26th birthday). She knows I love orange gerberas. Thank you, Maija! Behind it is our kitchen wall. I painted it with black board paint. The boys love drawing on it. I should've taken a picture of the fern we had in our bathroom upstairs. It was quite crispy and brown. There were some green parts, but they were crispy, too. I stared at it every day since January, first wondering whether or not it is beyond saving i.e. is there any point in wasting water on it. And eventually wondering if some fairy godmother would take it away during the night so that I wouldn't have to bother to do it. Alas, nothing happened. It stayed crispy and turning even more brown. On Saturday I finally threw it into our compost with the 3 orchids that had suffered too in my care. Actually one of them started to bloom again, which made me really happy. But not happy enough to water it, so it died.