rose hip : snapshots from the lake...

June 04, 2013

snapshots from the lake...

...where I spent part of last weekend and where, as you can see, everything is growing rather nicely! I love this hill garden because, as most of it has been started by a sprinkling of all sorts of different flower seeds in a very random way, it's always surprising me; as you can see, the lupin seeds have taken very well, fittingly so, as I harvested them from a nearby meadow. I am in love with these lupins... Aren't they real stunners!

Very happily, foxgloves have also made my garden their home, self-seeding themselves willy-nilly all over the place...

in all sorts of crooks and crannies...

not at all detered by lack of soil...

or rocks and boulders!...

I don't know who's happier with this burgeoning garden, the bees or me?!...

Now on the construction front, we've started a new project: a shed built right on the dock...

As we have quite a steep climb between the dock and the house which is perched high up overlooking our bay (you can see what it looks like here), we thought it a good idea to build a shed by the water to store all our boating and swimming supplies (of which we seem to get more of all the time!). Since there is almost no flat area by the water, we decided to extend the dock to make room for the shed.

However, because of its sweet location, it's slowly becoming more of a sleeping hut for the kids than a storage shed; there are plans afoot now to outfit it with some foldup bunk beds! And, why not, with this view to look at in the morning!

In the next few days, I will post about my finished blanket as promised... I just felt like sharing these few snapshots with you right away because they make me so happy thinking that summertime is here again. 'Hope you enjoyed them and thanks for the visit!

Comments

Beautful pictures of lupins and foxgloves! I like lupins, although I have a little bit too much of them... Very nice place for the shed! That will be wonderful.

Posted by: Mona | June 04, 2013 at 09:00 PM

Oh my goodness. If we had that shed, I doubt we'd ever get the kids out of it. What a glorious spot.

Posted by: dottycookie | June 04, 2013 at 10:01 PM

Well I followed the link to your house and what can I say but WOW! Such a beautiful house and a fabulous place to put it. It's the sort of house I wanted as a dolls house strangely enough, but have never found.
I have never tried scattering lupin seeds to see if they will take, but as we have several in the garden, once seeds are ready - which won't be for a while as the flowers haven't opened properly yet - I shall try the scattering!

Posted by: Maggie | June 05, 2013 at 03:41 AM