I love how they bloom all summer and through the fall.
Another long day at the hospital in Houston yesterday. It throws off the myriad of pills schedule I have to keep up with–can’t eat with these for two hours before or after, have to eat with these. Have to take these 12 hours apart.
I lost another 2 lbs. They say not to. Don’t diet. Don’t lose weight. But it’s impossible not to.
I’m off to run errands, and then I’ll dedicate the rest of the day to proofing Protecting the White Bear.
Hope your day is swell!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
It’s just like Christmas. I’ve had some of these daylilies for years, but every year, they pop out and it’s like opening a flowery Christmas present. I had these colors? Wow! This one just opened and I don’t remember having it at all. It’s the only one with this color anywhere in the yard.
Little ones will be here soon, so off to do my chores.
Hope you are having a fun-filled day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
This is the first daylily to flower and it’s a brand new one. I love their sunny disposition and they put out a new flower daily. There are lots of seedlings in the box, hurry up, flowers, arise from the fertile soil and let us know what you are! It was a mixed bag of perennial flower seeds. But I’m ready to just plant a bunch of annuals to give it some NOW color. I’m trying to be patient. I think the grandkids are more patient than me.
I’m working on proofing Huntress Unleashed, halfway done. I hope to have it finished before the weekend. I’m serving as the photographer for my granddaughter’s Girl Scout birthday party this weekend. And I will be working some more on The Wolf of My Eye, the Highland wolf book coming out next year. I should have that done next week. I also updated the cover for the Golden Fae. I need to redo the audio book covers for all of these that I’ve redone, but it’s more of a hassle to upload them. Maybe they’re easier now. I just need to create them.
Golden Fae
(The World of Fae, Book 8)
How does the Golden Fae get into big time trouble with one fiery dragon? When playing with fire…
All the golden fae wanted to do was to pick mushrooms for her mother—in the forbidden dragon fae territory, but Kayla sees dragons practicing for their games, and she gets caught at it. She loses her locket that she needs to have when she comes of age in just a couple of weeks so she can keep her magic as a lavender grower for the golden fae. Only now, one highly annoying dragon shifter fae has got it, and she will do anything to get it back.
Alton can’t believe it when the golden fae arrives at his friend’s castle wearing the dragon fae aura now! But he has a mission to go on, save a human and a dragon fae in the human world, and Kayla ends up there offering to help—anything to get him to give her locket back to her. Only a fae seer shoots him with an iron bolt, and Kayla risks everything, trying to get him and the captured maid safely back home again.
Now he will do almost anything to learn the mysterious golden fae’s secrets, and protect her from his own kind at all costs.
Okay, I’m off to get ready for little one. It has been storming ALL morning long from 1 on. I love storms, as long as we don’t have tornadoes and damaging hail. Of course the dogs hate the thunder. They won’t go outside in this until it stops. Some areas in Texas have had hail the size of eggs or tennis balls, not good.
The rain is supposed to be stopping in about an hour. But all my new plants needed it, so I was thrilled. Hope you have a delightfully lovely day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I think these are my favorite colorwise. They’re so soft with a little ruffled edge, a green and yellow throat. Just so pretty.
So I had to laugh at my dogs yesterday. They are so routinized that they go to their crates for a nap after lunch (because I would put them down for a nap when I put my granddaughter down for one so they wouldn’t wake her) that even when she’s not here, off they go.
Well, they hadn’t even had lunch yet, and I saw them both go into my bedroom. What mischief were they up to? I’ve caught Tanner sleeping on my bed before, a no-no, but of course when I catch him, he’s flying in the air, pretending he wasn’t snoozing on my bed. Nope, here they are. Both of them. Lying down in the crates, heads up, waiting for me to come and give them a treat and shut their crates. Now Tanner will go in there to sleep on his own throughout the day if I don’t shut the door so he will sleep out here with us.
They didn’t move. They just waited. “Come,” I said. “Time for lunch.” And both raced to their training cot where they lie down and wait for me to serve up lunch. “Break,” and they’re released to get their meal. Then potty break and once we’re in the house, they race for their crates. lol Now, it’s naptime.
Daylilies in bloom, from a gold with burnt orange center, to peach with a darker peach center, to the regular yellow daylilies, to purple, darker peach with a wine center and red with a yellow center.
I love daylilies. They come back each year, bigger and more beautiful than before. I was on a plant identification site, trying to figure out what a plant was when I came across a seed sharing forum and they were mentioning daylily seeds. Daylily seeds? Now that intrigued me. So here’s a site where they talk about it and it has a link to a seed sharing site also.
I’ve had a lot of volunteer pine trees, crape myrtles, yaupon hollies pop up in my yard. But I haven’t done much in propagating my own flower seeds to create new batches. Until a couple of friends began sending me some of theirs. But now, I’ve tried to propagate yellow ligustrum by sticking the branches I needed to trim back in the yard, and yep, some of them are beginning to take hold and leaf out.
I’ve tried this with roses, and haven’t had much success, but I think I’m going to give it a shot again. I really love seeing the new plant take hold and I don’t even need to go out and buy another!
Another idea I hadn’t thought of was cross pollination and creating your own cultivar! Just think! You could create a beautiful cultivar of your own, name and register it. Shapeshifter Goddess. That would be the name of my beautiful cultivar. lol
Granddaughter’s on her way and I’m sort of running this morning. Had to shut the computer down to get my internet to work.
These are a pretty purplish daylily that are having a field day! And the other is a watercolor version of them.
I’m WAY behind on word count on Billionaire because of having to edit the other book and write the novella, sooooo, I have to get cracking. 30,000 done, 50,000+ to go, and it’s due July 1st. At 2,000 a day on days I don’t have my granddaughter, it’s going to be tight, again. Next book, I’ll finally have more time. I hope. In July, I have another release, and that means more promo, and I haven’t even worked on the promo for the book releasing this month. Ugh.
Have a super, lovely day. I think I hear my granddaughter at the door!
First zinnia flower from seed. And the new orange and yellow daylilies finally bloomed. The mushroom is the fairies’ planting, I’m sure.
Off to write!! I’ve been working on the cover for Claiming the White Bear. It helps me to visualize the characters. I added a little word count to that book yesterday (up to 12,000+ now), and to SEAL Wolf Surrender. I’d prefer a conflictive couple for the cover of the new white bear book but couldn’t find any. Conflict is better! For a book that is romantic suspense.
Anyway, I started Claiming the White Bear at Christmas time while visiting my son and DIL. He was playing a game and I was watching it and giving direction (lol) and writing. Perfect vacation. But then I got a new contract for 3 more books and had to get down to writing deadline books.
Oh, and my daughter claimed the Sunshine ligustrum that volunteered next to the house. So I’ve got to try and dig it up for her. 🙂 I love being able to share plants!
I was sick, sick, sick yesterday and up all night the night before being sick, ugh. It didn’t work well for my writing. Though I did finish edits on Her Jaguar Protector the night before, and yesterday I managed to get 1/2 of my word count for the day.
Feeling much better today, and hope to catch up on my word count!
Which goes to prove that if you do more than you have scheduled, if you have an unscheduled interruption, you will still be mostly on track. 🙂
On the flowers, I planted the spider lilies this year, and didn’t know how they’d really look. They’re beautiful, exotic. The sunflowers come up from the birdseed. I just let them flower. The bees like them. And I missed taking a picture of a bee that was too cold to move, sitting on a chives flower yesterday morning. I was reading where that’s the best way to take a really good closeup shot. I checked this morning, but no bees. They’re around, but just didn’t find one resting anywhere.
Off to catch up on my writing!!! Have a flower-filled day!
Pink gerbera daisy, yellow daffodils, hot pink dianthus, red gerbera daisies, red drift roses, yellow Asiatic lily, yellow coreopsis moonbeam, and more flowers about to bloom
Around the neighborhood when I walk, I see where some neighbors mass their colors–all orange marigolds, or yellow lantana, and it’s showy and pretty. That’s what is often recommended. Same plant, same color for a really spectacular setting.
Me? I tend to have a riot of color. I have been adding a lot of the same kind of flowers–the lilies and daylilies so that it’s not just one here and there. And as they get bigger, spread more, they’ll be more noticeable. I had only one red rose bush, and now have two. I notice that neighbors who have more than one in their front yard appear to be more balanced. I added one of the apricot ones too. I can’t help myself. They’re beautiful. But I think another couple of red roses is in order. The drift are small, lower, you don’t have to do a thing with them. So I think I’ll get a couple more of those to balance things out. I have all purple magic crepe myrtles out front so that I have balance with those. 🙂
I had all blaze red roses out front of my house along a fence when I lived in Oklahoma, and it really was pretty, but the blaze eventually died of fungus. My mom had them too all along her white brick wall in Texas and the same thing happened to hers. Knockout roses seem to be the best for hot humid weather and survive fine through the hard freezes we have.
I had a redbud with the prettiest purple flowers and I had a flowering perennial ground cover that was the exact same color! I did it on purpose, NOT, but boy, was it spectacular when all of them were in bloom. So massing color does work!
It’s EARTH Day! Remember the earth, plant a tree, recycle, save water!
Okay, off to work on the story!! Up to 25,000, 55K to go!
