SO many Updates

and SO little time. I will attack the most important one first. I have indeed found a shampoo that strips dirt, as in it cleans your hair, yet doesn't transform you into Cindy Crawford. It's called Drama Clean, and all I can say is FinallY. Someone listened. Next, the business shift is sort of like the tectonic plates below us all, in that the more stuff I get ready to move, the more I throw out. Everything seems to balance. I just hope nothing twangs into a tsunami..

I've been mostly enjoying not moving much when I get home, these 12 hour days were a lot easier in my callow yout'. "My" garden is always a nice change from the hubbub of city stuff. Here's the bane of my life, my Sarah Bernhardt (who names these things!!) peony. Last year, she had a smitch of botyris wilt. As I had Always cleaned up after her in the past, I thought I'd try NOT cleaning up this spring.

Well, that was a bad idea. Dratted plant. Each flower weighs more than a pug dog, they ALWAYS flop over in the rain, and never last very long (for me) when I cut them. So I haven't touched this plant, as I know this disease is contagious to other plants. I will cut/burn the foliage once the summer's over. This plant is closest to the front, really ticks me off. But, this peony has always annoyed me. LOVE the flowers, hate the silly design. I think the ridiculously wet spring, combined with not enough sun AND the plant is a little low in the ground now, all contributed to it's diseased state. I'll have to dig it up and replant it somewhere else. Or, kill it and buy a new one. That's the best thing about plants...

While I was taking the shot, a flutterby dropped by, to cheer me up. Obviously, this little guy had fought some battle, and won. I love how he's posing so that the curve of the leaf shows his missing wing part.

Then there is my favourite peony, "Bowl of Beauty", OH, I love this girl! Tough, simple but gorgeous flowers that close up in the rain and at night, open on sunny days. The flowers don't topple the plant over. Much more resistant to wilt. The plant has done really well this year, but then I've been pretty happy with it since I bought it. I love the many "looks" of the different flowers. Some are perfect.

I look SO good!

Then there are the harried ones.

No Time to do hair today.

Then there are the "I've had a BAD day, and I need to slow down!" flowers.

ACK! The disheveled look.

Then there are the ones that just want to exit, stage left.,

Then there are the group shots, when they all seem to harmonize, like friends joining their voices in song.

Then there are my delphiniums, I love the blue of these flowers..

Then there are...