Art – Page 32 – Ellis Hollow

Paint my courtyard

If I had a courtyard, this is how I’d want it to be painted.

Bloom day scans

I did these over the weekend — before the frost. Thanks to Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting, as usual.

Colchicums.

Supersized.

Last of the tropicals.

More bloom day scans.

How to make your own scans.

Miscellany

In case you missed it this week, Zonker and Zipper explore the erotica that is bulb catalogs. You can view Start with Monday’s strip and work you’re way through the week by clicking on the next tab.

Email from UPS says my bulb order arrives Tuesday.

While shooting pix the other day I heard the tell-tale squawks of crows harassing a hawk, then they flew right overhead.

crows harassing hawk

Colchicums at Billie Jean Isbell’s garden. Billie Jean hosted our first fall 2009 program of the Adirondack Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society. Love her garden.

On Billie Jean’s barn, ‘Flying fish’ sculpture that looks to be fashioned from a piece of warped slapwood.

Living, Growing Architecture – Great post over at Dark Roasted Blend, full of root and vine bridges, reed construction, espalier, arborisculpture and more.

I usually think of September as a time of waning color, but there’s still lots out there. Sure, it’s here and there and you have to look for it. And it’s dwarfed by the goldenrod peaking, and will continue to be dwarfed as the trees start to change. But it’s there …

Click on images for larger view. Hat tip to Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting this monthly gathering.

Echinacea and I believe a Helinium of unknown origin.