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Massing Color or….Not & It’s EARTH Day!

Apr22

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!

Have a wonderful day!!

Terry

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Gardening as a Hobby

Apr21

Burgundy daylily, pink dianthus in the background, red Asian lily, yellow Asian lily

I’m impatient. Yep. That’s me.

I started my garden two years ago, but from the beginning, I wanted it to look….finished. This year, its just starting to take hold in it’s third year. Some flowers bit the dust. Others are doing great. Some struggle. From that, I learn which do fine here in the hot, hot, hot long humid summers, but can still withstand a hard freeze or two…or three in winter.

But I kept adding flowers. It didn’t look like a garden yet. Just a few sparse flowers here and there.  And lots and lots and lots of weeds.

The second year, I added a lot more flowers. I learned that interspersing with annuals helps, if the flowerbed needs some more color, but you know that the perennials, that come back each year, will eventually take over. That way there’s more constant color. Some annuals will reseed themselves and you’ll have a new crop, or a few anyway, will return the next year.

With the flowerbeds around the oak trees, they (the builders) piled mulch high, high on the trees, not good, BUT the trees put out feeder roots through the mulch. So planting in that isn’t easy.  And you don’t want to damage the tree. Then seeds really are the greatest. The problem again is that the high mound dries out quickly, so I have to plant stuff that doesn’t mind a little drying out. I have to water it on the hottest days.

I like low maintenance as much as possible. Plant the flowers, let everything do it’s own thing. And then I get to just take pictures. 🙂 <3

But I’m still spending a LOT of time weeding. Soooo, still working on a way to cut some of that down. Until then, I’ve got word count to get back to!

My regular job calls me.

Have a lovely weekend!! We’re looking at severe thunderstorms and hail even today. So I was out pulling weeds from the lawn this morning. 🙂

Terry

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Brrr It’s Cold out There!

Apr8

I reached over 4,000 words yesterday–76,000 to go, and man, we had a 40-degree drop in temperature and it was rainy all day. It was nice, really. If I’d dressed warmer. I kept thinking it was going to warm up! With a rainy day and blustery wind, it was chilling! I must look at the weather forecast more often.

These are pink gerbera daisies (filled with rainwater), yellow coreopsis, and red ranunculus (buttercup). What’s neat is that they’re all perennials. Like my stories, they keep coming back, keep growing, and are beautiful. Well, at least the flowers are. lol

It’s still cold! But I bundled up better today. The dogs won’t go out without me and I’m rushing them to do their business. At least it will warm up soon, and it isn’t as cold as the blue north. I think my friends in Minnesota and Chicagoland and all those other cold places won’t ever get out of the deep freeze. Sending warm wishes to melt the snow!

Have a great one! Back to the story. 🙂 <3

Terry

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Time for Flowers! Good Luck Clover!

Feb24

A four-leaf clover! See, I find stuff when I’m not looking. I was weeding behind these and looked for weeds among these and couldn’t believe my eyes! I’ve never seen one in person before. Which proves my theory–if you’re looking for it, you probably won’t find things. But look for something else, and voila!

Also pictured: Grape hyacinth in front of a fairy gourd house, red gerbera daisy, and the other can’t decide if it’s time to lift its head or not, and wood sorrels oxalis in bloom. 🙂 <3

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And St. Patrick’s Day bears. I’m working on a green one too. 🙂 <3

Okay, the corgis are coming, so need to get ready to have doggy daycare. All the dogs get excited to see each other. I hope they settle down enough so I can write, garden, take pictures, create fantasy worlds in composites. I always have my days….OVER planned. But that’s what makes them so much fun! 🙂

Have a super, green, flowery day! Even if you just make it up in your dreams.

Terry
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Look Up, Look Down…

Nov18

Look close, look far…it’s amazing what a different perspective you can have.

What we have: looking up through the shaded trees on the wetlands walk to see the brilliant sun; long distance shot at the arboretum, fall colors and flowers, shadows and light, and a path that leads you to the building; a grizzly bear close up, chomping on the fence to give you a bear hug; looking down–parakeets having a disagreement.

I didn’t have any time to work on My Highlander, well, let me amend that–I was taking care of grandbaby, took the dogs into be groomed, did a little shopping, bought a new strand of Christmas lights, well, two, and one half of one didn’t work, and worked on setting up the tree for pictures for Christmas. Oh, and picked up puppies!

But….I DID write 200 words. See? I wanted to, but didn’t think I’d have time. I didn’t feel like I should mention it because it was ONLY 200 words. But 200 words is…200 words. My incentive? Not only to keep at it, but I didn’t want to show one “dropped” day on writing every day for NaNoWriMo, even though I’ve made over 50K. Working on getting to 60K, hopefully, today. My daughter tells me we’ll shop for groceries today, tomorrow or Monday. Hmmm, that narrows it down. So I need to write in the meantime.

I cleaned house, but the puppies have already brought in a ton of more pine needles. I need to vacuum my yard.

Have a super weekend!!!!

Terry

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Butterflies and Flowers…

Oct24

Monarchs were all over the gardens at the arboretum, and then not sure what this other is, but caught it at the wetlands. 🙂

Had a ball at the Buns and Roses Tea and all the other great things we did–Big Cat reserve, wetlands, book signing the night before, Dallas zoo, Fort Worth zoo, arboretum, and today is grandbaby day, but after that….it’s back to writing.

Have a super, duper day!

Terry

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Distractions, Distractions

Oct15

I’ve been trying to ignore everything going on outside the windows while I finished up All’s Fair in Love and Wolf–two red-bellied woodpeckers, cardinals, house finches, blue jays, bluebirds and house wrens coming to eat. Butterflies from monarchs to fritillaries and yellow butterflies dancing in the breeze, laying eggs, and enjoying the flowers. The little Carolina Anole, and the monarch caterpillar–the very hungry caterpillar.

But I still have to take the puppies out, and sooooooo, there I am, looking for all these delightful, beautiful creatures. I found the very hungry caterpillar, but also noticed the jammy mouth flowers and the others, can’t think of their name, so took some pictures of them too.

The great news? All’s Fair in Love and Wolf is done and off to my editor. Today I have to finish Billionaire Wolf Christmas. I’m running out of time.

Have a great day!!

Terry

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Flowers in Macro

Aug17

Milkweed and a red daylily.

Writing and taking pictures for me is a daily have to. I feel dissatisfied if I haven’t done some of both. 🙂

Here I was trying for some fun angles with macro.

But now it’s time to write!!! It’s sooooo hot out. Took out garbage at 5 am and it was already horrible. *sigh* And we have more weeks of it too. But I see where it will dip down to 89 one day, MAYBE. 97, 98 otherwise.

And I’m trying to write about snow at Christmastime!

Have a wonderful day!

Terry

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Flowers, Flowers Everywhere!

Jul20

Flowers were everywhere in San Diego. Aren’t they beautiful?

Off to finish up reviewing Falcon Fae, and then it will be off to beta readers!

Hope you are having a lovely day!! 🙂

Terry Spear

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Uniqueness Wins Out

May8

I rarely see a robin, and never that sits long enough for me to capture in a shot. And the pink zinnia are the first flower seeds I’ve planted that had any success. This is the first flower, but more are coming.

I’ll have to showcase the Tiger Mix Ganzania flowers. The orange and yellow one is yet another version that popped out yesterday. They fold up and pop out a new flower, but most are different. It was one of two rescued plants that were dying at a hardware store, and they’re my favorite because of all the unique flowers.

And I was excited to learn that an unnamed plant I rescued at the same hardware store last spring is a gorgeous daylily, unique color from my others. I’ll show pictures of it soon.

In writing, each of my stories has to be unique also. I’m finishing up book 25 in the wolf series. They’re all stand alone, so no need to read them in order. I turned in Flight of the White Wolf–and now am finishing up, and finishing up, and finishing up The Bounty Hunter Gets Her Wolf. I have had a bounty hunter heroine before, but she was trying to take down a Mobster, the same one that turned her and murdered her mother in Dreaming of the Wolf. In this one, the bounty hunter is after a wolf. But not just any wolf–a Silver wolf.

She should have known what would happen when she went into Silver Town–a wolf pack run town to take down one of their own. 🙂

Dreaming of the Wolf

Is he real or only a vision of his deepest desires…

Book 8

The Silver Wolves rule!

Have a great, and uniquely interesting day!

Terry Spear

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