Week Fifty Two!!!

Made it!

Week Fifty One

Only brighter from here

Week Fifty

Week Forty Nine

Installation at the Washington Pavilion

Week Forty Seven

A colder walk to work

Week Forty Six

I didn't know my new bushes would turn these pretty colors (now they just need to - PLEASE - last through the winter).

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Week Forty Four

Neat bench at the Retreat at Pointer's Ridge

Week Forty Three

What time is it? Houseplant time!

Week Forty Two

From my walk to work last Monday

Week Forty One

From the restored lobby of the State Theater in Sioux Falls 

(where I got to see a silent film with live accompaniment!!) 

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Week Thirty Seven

The whole reason I plant a garden

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Week Thirty Three

Jökulsárlón - Iceland is amazing

Week Thirty Two

My front yard on a foggy morning

Week Thirty One

Week Thirty

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My garden + new (to me) 28-105 mm lens

Week Twenty Seven

One of my wildflowers

Halfway!

Week Twenty Five

Garden's in!

It's such a relief to have the garden in!

This year, with some help from my dad, I tilled a compost/manure combo (8 bags of it) into the garden before planting. I also added Osmacote to help feed my veggies and flowers. I'm hoping both of those will help with the poor growing results I've gotten in the last few years.

My sister shared a bunch of seeds (and started tomatoes) that she'd gotten from the Rare Seeds catalog, so I'm excited to see how things turn out. I hear some of the tomatoes are yellow with blue stripes (!!).

I also got two different kinds of sunflowers this year - one that's bigger than the Mammoth ones I usually get (already forgotten the name) alternating with Lemon Queen sunflowers (shorter but should be a really pretty yellow).

As of yesterday, I also have straw and newspaper down around all the tomatoes, peppers, and between the radishes and herbs. I'm going to give the rows time to come up (and give myself time to get more straw) before I do the rest. If it works as well as it did last year (completely lifechanging), I'm looking forward to doing almost no weeding this summer. 

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Week Twenty Three

Hey there, pretty.

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Week Twenty One

At Palisades State Park

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Week Nineteen

Flowers at Whitewater State Park, MN

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Blue Mounds State Park, MN

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Week Fourteen

All tree branches, all the time ;) 

Week Thirteen

Looks like spring at Clinton Lake State Park

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Week Eleven

No dog butts this week (just a new camera body and 50mm lens, yay!!) 

Week Ten

Warm weather? Time to get our butts outside

Week Nine(ish)

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Week Seven

Freezing fog + a tree in my backyard

Week six

Another dried up branch and sky picture

Week Five

Back outside again for week five

Week Four

Continuing with the indoor photography - here's one of Mom's houseplants