Nights have cooled to the low 60s f and the Fall bloomers are making a showy garden!
Burning Bush:
Burning Bush
Holly leaved Osmanthus:
Holly Leaved Osmanthus
Gus:
Texting Bear – a funny art piece at ArtSpace for the First Friday ArtWalk.;
Texting Bear
And the International Bluegrass Festival
International Bluegrass Festival
The arbors are almost clear as the tomatoes and cucumber die.
And The Borough
and Wake County Justice Center
Bazinga!
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Usually we have drinks or a bite to eat at The Borough on the corner of Dawson and Morgan Streets near the heart of Downtown Raleigh.
It’s great people watching and a nice location to begin a walk around Downtown proper and to have a nice bite to eat and a beverage.
I do love their good food and their option of choosing steamed broccoli in place of fries!
The red-tail hawks are nesting again in the steeple of the First Baptist Church. Photographers love them!
As darkness fell and we walked closer to Fayetteville Street we realized that something dealing with anime must be taking place? Kids everywhere dressed: like Japanese anime characters! It is called Anamazement!
Click on the link below for a little video
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10201940409660002&id=1477412812
The newspaper stated that about 6,000 were attending. This explains why they were EVERYWHERE!
There was a dance party out front if the Raleigh Civic and Convention Center:
If I was 20 years younger I would have been in the middle of that crowd.
But back to gardening!
This is a beautiful patch of Stachys: Lamb’s ears at JC Raulston Arboretum. Lovely!
And Lilies…
And foxtails…..
and lilies at a big box store….
🙂
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Spring is here! I will be busy in the yard for the next few days but thought I would share a preview of things to come!
Forsythias are blooming! I purchased these from a clearance rack at a big box store so they are lopsided and lived a rough life last year with the erratic care they received at the big box store. This year I will clean them up and work on getting them back to a more natural shape and form!
Last year I planted a Scarlet Storm Quince on each side of the front steps. Quince are great early Spring bloomers but they always look thin and scraggly! I guess the early blooms make up for a not so attractive shape?
I have been finding some good books at the thrift stores. A cookbook for dogs? I hope Gus likes my experimenting with his tummy?
Tomorrow will be a full day in the vegetable garden preparing the beds for Spring and general clean up in the yard. The temperature has been to almost 80f the past few days and I can see now what has survived and what needs a very hard trim.
More to come…
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Arthur in the Garden! 