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Thinking of Clematis as it snows and snows

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve just about had my fill of snow. It’s been snowing all week and it’s apparently going to be snowing quite a bit next week too. Hmmm maybe after that it will totally stop and the weather will get better? Warmer? Ha … now that’s a pipe dream.

So … since I can’t do anything about the weather or the fact that it’s only January and there’s no way I’ll be doing any gardening for months I decided to post one of my favorite pictures of my Clematis Jackmanii.

When I first started my garden in 2002 I planted the clematis Jackmanii, my first clematis, near my tall wooden fence. I also put a trellis on the fence to help guide the clematis when it started to grow. Later on that year, in the fall, I planted my now huge William Baffin rose in front of the clematis. It gives the clematis roots shade and the clematis grows on the fence and well … into the rose as too.

Here’s a shot of the clematis in bloom. It’s growing on the fence and it’s long vines entwined a small birdhouse that we had on the fence at the time …

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Now … doesn’t that make you think of summer and all it’s promise?

Oh and BTW the birdhouse is about 6 feet from where I planted the clematis so that goes to show just how big this Clematis really is!






Personalized housewarming gifts

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Have you ever visited the online store Roland’s Housewarming Gifts?

The company originally began as a source of house closing gifts for real estate agents and it’s grown over time as a source of gifts for the public.

I think this site is the perfect place to find housewarming gifts. You know when someones just moved into their first home? You want to give them something that will help them make their new home their own. This often takes the form of some kind of personalized gift. Well, you can find all kinds of gift items to personalize at Roland’s housewarming Gifts.

For example they have some lovely personalized doormats to chose from, as well as address plaques that can be personalized, custom door mats, address signs, ceramic address plaques, beautiful crafted crocks which can also be personalized, house address signs, birdhouses, cookie jars, planters, mailboxes and other unique personalized gifts.

This is yet another site that I’m going to bookmark for future use. Check it out.

The hunter and the hunted

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Our yard seems to be a haven for animals. We have all types of birds – including the dreaded pigeons, squirrels, the occasional raccoon, and then there’s the stray and or wandering cats that travel through our backyard pretty much every evening.

I didn’t take this photo, but I certainly could have. You see, we have a similar type of wooden birdhouse attached to the electric pole in the corner of our backyard. Well, the pole is actually in the very corner of our neighbors yard, but it’s our bird house on the pole.

I’ve seen squirrels site just the way this cat is sitting on the bird house. As if they were waiting and watching for something to happen down below. I’ve also see a cat, just once, perched just like this on our bird house. I’m certain the cat was waiting for a bird to either come out or visit the birdhouse.

Birds aren’t all that stupid though. I think it would have to be a pretty stunned one to visit a bird house with a big predator sitting on top of it!

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