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  • A spider with an attitude!

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    I love these little crab spiders. They get on my sunflowers and blend right in with the petals. They will stick to one flower for the life of the flower and grab insects out of midair that fly by. I brought a cut sunflower into the house unaware there was a passenger on board. A…

  • In bloom today

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    I just noticed that my loropetalum was in bloom today. I actually didn’t know it had flowers. I posted an earlier entry of when I bought it.  Not the prettiest flower but nice to have as an accent. I took this photo with a Nikon D200, 70-200 2.8 VR lens and some extension tubes that…

  • Got my sunflowers 🙂

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    I picked several today and made an arrangement along with a few blue plumbago flowers to set them off. I had to take a picture of course 🙂

  • Panoramas of my garden with the iPhone

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    I shot these today with the pano application for the iPhone. It made the floor broken but otherwise I was pretty impressed!

  • Teeny weeny tomatoes

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    Gosh these are so cute! Literally handfulls of tomatoes 🙂 These are red current tomatoes and are indeterminate. It took me a little while to pick all these and there are literally hundreds more on the plant. Besides being incredibly small they are really sweet in flavor. I think they would be great in salads…

  • Rosehips

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    Going to collect some rosehips today and hopefully make some rosehip tea when they dry. http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/articles-submit/michael-brooks/rose-hips.htm Whoopsie! Guess I didn’t read the article well enough above as to when I should harvest. Oh well there are a few still left on the plant to turn from green to red (blush) http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-garden/2009/06/deadheading-plants.html

  • Scrumptious meal from some that I harvested!

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    Today I harvested: Several large squash grocery bag of tomatoes handful of beets arm load of swiss chard chocolate mint and watercress for a salad From the tomatoes and the squash my mother made the following recipe that is absolutely scrumptious! Ingredients: Coarsely chopped squash steamed, skinned and stewed tomatoes caramelized onions crushed freeze dried…