Yay! Finally Got A Hummingbird Picture!

I have 4 hummingbird feeders and there is one that gets the most activity. It's a mini size feeder that I got a Lowe's that you stick in your potted plants. So I parked my lawn chair out in the middle of our backyard waited for him to come. It didn't take long, about 5 minutes. So I sat there for about 20 minutes and got a bunch of pics. He would come by every 5 minutes. Then I weeded out the best one to post on here.

I took a few more pics too. Here is one of the front of our house. I like to use lots of pots of flowers around my yard. Don't exactly have the best soil for planting. We have lots of clay in our area.

While I was sitting out in the backyard. Just under the shed was one of the baby bunnies watching me. They sure are growing fast!

Then these pictures are of some of my most favorite geraniums.

Photo Challenge: "GET UP CLOSE, USING MACRO"

Since I love taking pictures, I thought I would enter the photo challenge over at Brenda Photo Challenge blog. I just love using the Macro setting on my camera. You can list up to 3 photos. So here are my pics! It had rained a little this morning so I captured some of the flowers with rain drops on them.

This is a pic of a flower called Spiderwort, which I love!

I have many varities of this flower, Astilbe

And this is just the flower everyone knows, Marigold!

What am I to Do?

So the last couple of days, I have been noticing that, something has been chomping on some of my flowers all around my yard. I am pretty sure its deer. I don't think rabbits can jump up and eat impatiens in a hanging basket that I have on a Shepard's hook. First it was my tulips that they ate all the flower buds off before they could bloom. Now they are eating my petunias and impatiens and all the way down to the dirt in the pots. Err. I've been living in the same house for 24 years and never have seen any deer until 2 years ago. And never had them eating my flowers until this year!!

So, today I am getting ready to go outside and I open my back door and there is one standing in my next door neighbors front yard and another right across the street. So they both walk down our driveway into our backyard nibbling along the way and disappear. Looks like its going to be a long summer trying to keep the deer from eating my flowers that I spent so much time and money on.

I Think I am done

Yesterday and today finished up spreading the mulch in the gardens. Hadn't gotten around to it last week because of all the rain we have been having. So all my flowers are planted and just now need to pull a few weeds. Took a few pics of my yard today. We have lots of shade in the front, so I have tons of hostas everywhere, which I love. If you would like to see more of my yard, you can visit my photobucket at http://photobucket.com/flowergarden2008

Flowers planted!

Yesterday spent over 3 hours planting the rest of the flowers that I bought early this week. Whew...I am always glad when I get everything planted. Here is one gerbera daisy that I planted in a pot. It looks like a mutated flower head. Didn't even notice it was like that until I got it home and Tara noticed it. Later on in the day, I caught a pic of a chipmunk theif on my deck. He likes to get into my new bird feeder and steal the sunflower seeds.