what's blooming wednesday...er, friday

 

 


The zucchini and the squash are taking over!!

birthday gift for a special monkey

Happy belated birthday to a special friend of mine- Monkey! You remember him, he guest blogged a few months ago? His birthday was last month, and I ordered him a very special gift from teh internets. It arrived last week, and I had to wait until he received it to share (and, uhh, remembered to upload the photos to Flickr and blog at home. My job has banned Blogger at work so it's much less convenient for me to post).


I ordered this adorable ABC Letter Print from Stephanie Fizer on Etsy.com (http://stephaniefizer.etsy.com). She also has each individual letter, too.



It sadly did not have an "M is for Monkey," but it did have an "N is for Narwhal."


And L is for Laura! Can you see the pattern detail on every little letter? How cute!

what's blooming wednesday: rhododendron

This isn't technically from my backyard, but there are huge rhododendrons all over West Virginia. It looks like Jurassic Park- they are simply enormous. 


We caught them at the tail end of blooming. Fun fact: the Rhododendron maximum is the state flower of West Virginia!

down country roads

I spent the weekend in West Virginia, visiting my sister.  We went rafting on the New River (no pictures :( ), went to a nearby state park, had some delicious homemade/campfire curry, and skipped anything remotely Fourth of July related because it was pouring. And cold. Did I mention it rained?


Suspension bridge over the New.




The Lower New River- we sat down at the Fayette Station rapid (also the takeout) to watch some rafts come in. 


Babcock State Park, famous for it's Grist Mill.  We sat down by a stream to "ice down" my feet- the stream was cold!

i knew it

I knew they were BFFs when I'm not around.