Morning Glories are blooming!

This year the morning glories germinated and produced lots of vines.  There's a window behind the vines on the side of the garden cottage; it's nearly all obscured by the vines.

The vines have been growing well, but have not had any blooms.  Culprits for this are too much water or too much fertilizer; we had not too much of either one.  So we just waited patiently.  Finally, over the past few days there have been new blooms each morning.  Yesterday (this picture) there were fifty-one blue blooms.

Another beginning

Here's the first step for a garage (!) here at the River.
The gravel will be pushed into place and become the underlayment for the garage's concrete floor.

Let's stay tuned for further progress over the next few weeks.

a Super day

Yep.  Today has been a Super day.

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Home is an ISLAND

What a difference a few days make.  Look how happy and proud the Garden Cottage is wearing its new coat of paint.  And its "big brother" house is nearby.

Then it started to rain... and rain...  and rain... and rain:

Now, see the Garden Cottage.  Well, at least you can see the very top of its roof.

Look carefully and see the Garden Cottage's roof in the distance, at the upper left of this picture:

A neighbor who lives on higher ground took this picture.  Can you see how the River has come to visit the house.  The River is enjoying wrapping around the wrap-around porch.  The trees you see grow along the "dry creek".  Today, the dry creek is the Buffalo River.  


It will be interesting to see what surprises await as the River returns to its normal height.

Winter at the River

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It is so peaceful at the River in the winter.  The sunshine finally turned the sky blue.  You can still see some snow on the shady parts of the river bank.
The horizontal tree at the left arrived during one of the more recent floods.  Look carefully above the river bank and you'll see a cabin and garden cottage.
The river is still a little high.  In the summer the water on the right will be gone.  Grasses and poison ivy will take its place.
(This is a panorama from several shots of the river; looking downstream.)

Garden Cottage gets workshop

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The Garden Cottage got itself a workbench, shop light, & clean windows.

Just sit in the Tracker when you want to take a break ("Ooh, my back is tired")


Nostalgia: see the Garden Cottage when it was growing up.
(click to see picture from Picasa Web)

Marigolds and a walk to the River

Take a walk down to the river. Start at the Garden Cottage & see the Marigolds.

Walk past the Picnic Bench (which hasn't floated away lately).

Go down the path and cross over the stream on the Bridge. It's survived the last 3 floods very nicely.

Now we're down at the river. Sploosh, sploosh as we wade into the water.

From 2009 07 River

Watch out-- don't get spashed as you look upstream, downstream and back toward the house and path.

Down to the river

2008 Oct

A quick tour down the neighbors' path (watch carefully as we swing by the new cottage).
We continue down to the river.

Next, travel along as we go abreast of the river, upstream.
Our tour ends as we pass by the picnic bench and end up at the garden cottage

(This is a video tour; you'll need to double-click on the picture to the right of the neighbors' path to start your tour. You'll be transported over to Picasa Web Albums.  Or, you can use this link) 

The Garden Cottage grows up

Now there's a roof & a wall.

From Garden Cottage

The Garden Cottage grows up

See what's happening.

From 2008 Sept

From 2008 Sept

From 2008 Sept

C'mon back later to see what happens next.