Below is a shot of the bear that made me break my camera...scared the crap out of me I am letting you know... Below that are two shots of the
A friend helped me plant my fall bulbs as I needed help... Allium 'Miniature
Mix'... Two hues of pink, yellow, lavender and white in this mix... Alliums
'Allatunense',Scilla or Squill 'Siberian' heirloom 1796, Wild Hyacinths,
'Lavender' Mountain Lilies Daffodil 'Rose Of May' heirloom 1959, Crocus 'Peter Pan'
heirloom 1943, Crocus 'Jeanne D' Arc And Daffodil 'Paperwhites'...Rhonda gave me
two coneflowers, don't know what they are, but know I don't have them... I planted many things from Spring to Autumn, but just can't remember what they are unless I go back and look at my journal...Deer have
not been in my garden in four months now... Still, I will give it till the middle
of next Spring before I say we got rid of the problem... For the year 2009, I have
won the battle, the first battle since 2000...I will know by mid Spring if I won
the 'WAR'...I may be only 'ONE', but I am persistent...
A friend turned me on to Da Vinci Chianti... said for a cheap bottle it was wonderful... At twenty dollars a bottle, he had/has it right... right up there with the big guys IMHO... Dang it's good, and a new favorite of mine...
There was Huckleberry picking... and boy did we pick... found a few mother loads, picked more than any other year to date... perfect year for them, they say that next season should be as good...after making three batches of jam, I still have over a gallon in the freezer... Rhonda picking Huckleberries... 
Here is a photo of my copper pumpkins... I just knew Steve was going to be upset when he found out what I paid for them... guess there is something to be said for being sick...He wasn't mad at all...WOW, not Steve at all... Come on... Where's the fight, I so miss that... if I were to bite the bullet today, who would wait on him hand and foot??? OH, that would be Heather and Holly... I am so at peace with that, knowing they would take care of their dad with no questions asked... Their is something to be said about tight families... No one will ever be alone... Remember people, you have to work at these things... it was hard, but now that the girls are grown... I am so at peace with how everything turned out...
We have skipped Autumn this year, with Winter hitting us the last week of September, we have had temps up to fifty here and there, but no higher... Snow off and on all month... we have broken records for low temps this time of year...Except for the tamarack and rose hips there has been no color as the frost/cold temps killed all our color... Go figure, not feeling well, don't want to get h1n1, due to the copd and other issues I am so worried that I will get it... and I have been exposed to it... what a bummer... 
So I will leave you with the Pro's and Con's of winter... Pro's... Winter is beautiful... Con's, EVERYTHING ELSE...
The 'Clear Water River' sure was pretty yesterday...
Remember that you only live once, so love hard, play hard and hug those you love often...
Until next time
Nothing but love Lina
I leave you with a few of my favorite late summer blooms...
Just a few of the things that are blooming, I have more to download then upload yet...
Everyone have a wonderful day... Hugs to all... Dee will be here in a few hours and we will again transplant more annuals...
I have been transplanting many plants the last two weeks... Sad to say only one 'Grand Cru' Asiatic Lily will bloom this year... I didn't mark them, was digging and broke off the bud underground of two of them, so I dug them up and transplanted them, left the one that was unhurt... when it emerges I will transplant it...I will have to wait for next year for the others to bloom, I need to stop being so careless... Will that ever happen? Don't know!
The Lady Slipper I dug out of the woods two years is coming up for the second year now... I now will dig up one more the end of May to middle of June and plant it in the same spot... A few friends and I are going to go up Rock Creek after work next week and dig up some wild Clematis, I was boggled to see that one of the nurseries is selling it for 49 dollars, I can't believe that anyone would pay for it when there are tons for the taking, heck, I can't believe that some in Missoula never take the time to leave the city... How sad is that?
All three Delphinium's 'Astolat'/'Black knight' and 'Chocolate' are coming up... As are all the Daylilies...'Stella d' Oro'/'Ditch Lily'/'Hush little Baby'/'On and On' and 'Elegant Candy'... I was transplanting the 'Ditch Lily' when Eric was here, so gave him half and replanted the other half away from the rest of the garden on the other side of the fence... It's beautiful, but I don't want it to invade my garden, most of us know it's like a weed...but beautiful so I don't want to get rid of it entirely
Two of my Hyacinth's 'Jan Bro' are in bloom, the other five should be in bloom soon... She didn't give me any blooms last year, unsure of why that happened... Still don't know the name of the Hyacinth's I thought was 'Jan Bro' last year, so if anyone out there finds out before me, please let me know...
Two new beds I am working on... Do I do all this digging by myself? Why, NO! I get some much needed help from Mr. Offenbacher... I do believe that he is starting to love Stella as much as I do...
Columbines are all coming up, it appears that I have about a half a dozen more than last season... Wonder what they will look like?
After four years my 'Garlic' Chives are coming up and doing well, I might even get them to bloom this season... I am so excited, never did think that they would do much of anything...Sowing seeds for this plant takes so long, it doesn't help that I pulled so much of it out thinking that it was grass, shaking my head at myself... I could go on and on with what is coming up, but better stop or I will be here all day, besides it's all in my Journal...
The promise of what Stella will bring makes me delirious...
Enjoy the day, it's raining here yet I will spend most of the day outside playing with Stella... Found my rain gear, I do look funny in it, but I am pretty sure Stella don 't care, and I know I don't... Have a wonderful day, or not... it's your choice... do remember to hug those you love... That's of course unless you love no one... couldn't help myself...
Until next time
Going to town tomorrow with Dee... Going to go check out a few nurseries, stop at a few shops, out to lunch , on to the supermarket then home... Thursday Dee and I are going to work with our seedlings/plants in the well house then I am going to make hot crab sandwiches for lunch... if it's warm enough, they say it will be... We will eat out on the picnic table...
Matt/Linda and I had Lunch here last Sunday... I was stung once again by a bee last Saturday and didn't look so pretty so didn't want to go anywhere there were a lot of people after work... so we just went to the Blackfoot and did some target practice and had a late lunch...
I have two types of Daffodils that have come up so far, the smaller being the tete-a-tete...
Also the Deep Purple Crocus's have come up... Think I will get white and yellow ones this Autumn...I have a purple and white Violet and a Yellow Violet that have come up so far... Wonder what else I will get...
Here we have the Wild Flowers Pasque and Yellow Bell... What a good year it will be for the Wild Flowers, these are just starting and they are all over the place, can't wait to see what comes up next...
The deer did some major damage to Stella, got 98 percent of her tulips and 50 percent of the rest of the garden... I think they know that the deer netting/fence is on it's way, the electric fence already here... It will take three to four more weeks to arrive... They have never destroyed my garden so early in the season... I was upset for a while, but then let it go knowing at last this will be it... It was/is spendy for what we had to purchase, but so worth it to me, this of course is in addition to what we purchased last year...we will put it up all at once... Steve is so sweet, he didn't make me take it out of the garden budget, nope...instead he gave me more to add to it this year... I know it's because he feels bad about them getting in, not sure if they jumped the fence or walked right on in as Steve left the gate open last Sunday when I was at work then he left for town... Just to make sure they don't destroy more we have been covering everything at night, and taking everything off in the morning... It takes about 45 minutes to do this twice a day... The bulbs of course will come back next season... Most of the plants will make it as it's still very early in the season...They did destroy three coneflowers that I will have to replace... pulled them out and chewed the roots... Now mind you... they don't like coneflowers...
Here is a Mountain Bluebird, such a beautiful color...
A Hairy Woodpecker, it's so hard to tell them and the Downy apart, I got it down now, only took a few years...
Just to the left of where I took the shot of the Mallard on the Clearwater was this stump... How cool is this?
Have a wonderful day... and just remember, if it's not one thing, it's another... Hug those you love, or give them a soft slap upside the head, whatever makes you feel good today... Dishes to do yet, then back outside... I LOVE YOU ALL!!! REMEMBER THAT!!!
Here we have a Crocus with Bee, if you magnified this photo then click on the image to move it so you can see what you want,you can see the pollen on the bee... It's so cool enlarged...There are more in my Webshots album...
Here we have yet another Rock I had to bring home... Steve just shakes his head at me... Now to find the right spot for it to live...
I was looking through my notes from last year, and discovered that the Penstemon 'Rubycunda' was never sent by Wayside gardens due to it being out of stock...
Got two shots of an Eagle, they didn't turn out well still I put them up... I don't know what this Eagle is thinking, it took over an Osprey nest, the nest itself is not big enough... I wonder what the Osprey will do when it comes back to see it's nest taken over by it's enemy...
Got a shot of a pair of Mallards also...Can't wait for their babies to hatch...I always love watching them play...
The Blackfoot is always beautiful...
On our walk we stumbled upon this... We went back later with the car to pick it up... I will put it in one of the beds after I have dried it out a little more in the sun... I know, I am a strange cookie indeed, but that's OK with me...It will look so good with taller plants growing around it... May-be I will put it with the Columbines...
On the way home I stopped at the well house to water the seedlings... It is time to transplant more seedlings as more have their first set of true leaves...I will call Dee later on this afternoon to arrange a play date...Looking over our seedlings,I am reminded that one should always plant at least 1/2 more seeds than they will need as germination is never 100 percent...
