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This is my garden

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People have been asking for pictures of my garden as a whole, so here are a few pictures that I took way back in 2003.

I have 60 rose bushes between the front and backyard gardens with the majority of them being in the backyard. However, since these photos are from 2003 the roses had not yet reached maturity. They are perhaps 2 feet tall. Now, most of the roses are 4 feet tall or larger. Some are almost small tree size!

This is an overhead view from an upstairs window. Approximately 1/3 of the garden is not seen in the photo:

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Here’s a ground view of the middle to back of the garden on the left, and the patio area on the right:

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Scared a Coon!

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Saturday night, 9:30 p.m.

I Walked into the kitchen while I was talking on the phone with my husband (he was at work) and noticed that our security light at the back door was on.

I peeked out the window and saw the bushy tail and bushy butt of a big raccoon as it walked on our tiny white picket fence near the driveway. It was balancing on the fence, caught between two of my roses- Breath of Life, and Scent-Sation.

I wrapped hard on the window as my husband encouraged me with “Get Him!”.

The raccoon slipped a bit when it heard my knocking on the window and it sort of fell into one of the rose bushes. Then It scrambled over the other side of the fence into our neighbors backyard.

Ha! Score one for me! I scared my little friend away. I’m pretty sure that that was the one that sits and watches me water the garden late at night. He or she creeps me out when it does that, ’cause you just never know what a raccoons gonna do.

Blogging from the Garden

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I’m finally able to do something that I’ve wanted to do every since I started my beautiful back yard garden in the spring of 2002. I now have the ability to bring my computer outside and sit in the garden as I work on my computer, websites and while answering e-mail.

Yes, that’s right folks, I’ve finally joined the ranks of laptop owners!

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I took this photo last night after I brought my new laptop, aptly named Tricia’s Toy, outside for it’s first visit to the garden.

leafy growth that you see to the right of the patio table is that rose, Antique ’89, that I nicknamed the monster in one of my earlier posts. The monster has one cane that must be approaching 16 or more feet tall. It’s huge and it’s thorny! I have my scars from my battle with her a month ago.

So now, while the weather is nice, I’ll be posting to this site live from my garden Internet cafe. I’m hoping to be inspired!

Oh yes, I also got another new toy last week. I bought a Sony Cybershot DSC-H5 and I’m loving it so far. The quality of the photos that I’ll be posting to my sites will likely improve substantially. If you want to see the latest photos as I take them feel free to visit my flickr site.

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