A Stitch and A Garden

Design - "Land That I Love"

Designer - Lizzie Kate

Fabric - 30 cnt Natural linen

Fibers - WDW & Whisper - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 17 July 2012

Almost Completed - 19 July 2012

Yep - I have eight more stitches to complete this baby.  I ran out of WDW 'Deep Sea' before finishing up the 'e' in 'Love'.  Darn it!  Off to my LNS I go, and I'll add this to the list of projects to re-post when really complete with beads and/or charms, etc.   

I thought I'd share another garden from the Cottage Grove Garden Tour.

This was an especially lovely garden - much of it under a canopy of magnificent old trees.

The gardeners first saw this structure at the Seattle Garden Show in February.  It is made entirely of recycled products - even the door handle.  They were charmed and had one build for their garden.   

Here's one of the venerable trees I mentioned.

Lots of great garden art too in this garden... 

...as well as lots of wonderful plants.

I was amused to see this crow had a marble in is mouth as crows are noted for stealing shiny things. 

How cute is this watering can? 

This was a reminder that shade gardens can have color too.

While this is a 'loud' rooster, at least he won't wake you up at the crack of dawn!  Now I need to go outside and water the Front Porch and Back Patio plants as warm weather has returned.  

We had a thunderstorm last evening from about 7:30-8:15pm.  The sky got black and then lightening and thunder arrived.  The storm moved in from the east - very unusual as most of our weather comes from the west.  The storm ended with five minutes or so of hard rain.  Now the air is fresh and clean and the land has received a much needed drink of water.