Love Is All Around

You know with the high price of gas that means more hometime for me.  I so wanted to do something  yesterday, run down to the lake with dh and just have a drive but the more I thought how much it would cost just to go for an aftenoon drive the more I didn't care about it.  Plus theres so much to do here on the homestead.  So a trip vacation my not be in the near future for a very long time.
  
   So i'm makin my homestead a place that feels like i'm on a vacation.   And the garden is a good place for that.   I think more people are doin the same thing to. The word "Staycation" stay at home for vacation is going to be very popular these days.
  
   So I took a few pictures of things on the homestead, you know those feel good things, they are simple but thats ok, I mean a vacation is suppose to be relaxing, so come on and have a look at what a vacation means to me. 
  
   Less is more but oh those flowers can be right up there.
  
   This is one of the Lilies that my dd got for me , I don't have the name.  We had a good rain so it had a few drops of water. 
   

   
   I'm not sure what flower this is, I have to check with the person who sent cuttings, but it was bloomin' and lookin' good.
   
 
   
   Oh I just love Echinacea's / purple coneflower.  This one is from a wildflower patch I planted many years ago,theres not many growing b/c of some landscaping work that is still undergoing. A big dozer rolling over it and it still grows. I moved it to my new butterfly garden. 
   

   
   Heres another Echie, a green one,  there are so many different Echinaceas.  I'm in a co-op and will be ordering many for next spring to plant. 
   
 
   
   Heres a bird bath I added to the new butterfly garden,  notice the imprints of butterflies.  I have not seen a bird use it nor bird poop, just a drowned bug or two.  I shall be patient after all I am on vacation!!!
   
    
   I forgot what this flower is but it pretty, some kind of comos maybe
   

   
   I'm really getting some good deals on plants through co-ops, heres some Sedium, Brillant.  The plants are growing good, can't wait to see them in bloom.
   

   I have this plant popping up all over, Yarrow, great to dry out for flower arrangments
   
   
   You know that landscaping project I mention, will it spread a lot of my flowers and I thought they were goners, wrong, nature has a way.  This is some Lambs Ear. I have some growing next to the garden and it can't even come close to this, already blooming , tossed around by the bulldozer. I'm going to just leave and work another flower garden in that area and see what comes up : )
   
   
   Queens Anns Lace grows all over, but I have never seen it do this,  it looks like outer space stuff or maybe in the ocean.  There was only a couple of plants that looked like that and the rest look like they always do, Queen Anns Lace is a very pretty plant.  I like having it growing in the gardens.
   
   
   An old chair is a great place for this Star of Yelta.  I don't know this plant and will be excited to see it bloom, should see something this week.
   

   
   We may not want to have tea under the Mulberry tree, its loaded and dropping not to mention the birds and their droppings too :P
   

   I have really got into flowers this year but I'm still going strong with the veggies and herbs, still much more to get out in the garden.
   Lookie here my first seasons tomato.  With 182 tomato plants out and still more to plant, wait I thought I was on vacation, oh will!!!!  Yes the garden is full of play/work that I just love doing and eating out of.
  
  This picture is a Stupice tomato, an early variety.  I saved seeds from last years tomatoes , seeds givin to me from a dear friend that is gone.  Debby's memory lives on in my heart and garden.
  
   
   Heres something that makes me feel like vacation, 105 chicks,  Barred Plymouth Rock.  Lost two, dang it.  The good news is they are out of my workshop and in the Hen Den.  So I feel like vacation. They are just over two weeks old and if gasoline was free I still couldn't go to far from home. They need fresh water and food refilled a couple of times a day and oh changing their bedding to.  One of these days I'll be having fresh brown eggs coming out my ears, so all this vacation time will pay off : )
  
   The pens have gone highrise.  They like their new home, even got a fan on them, spoiled chickies
   

   
   Heres the place I really feel like a vacation, the campsite in our woods, sometimes we pitch a tent , but we had a Fathers Day wiener roast and smores.
   
   
   Well thats a few pic's and simple staycation, and the thing is everyone can do this with their own homes.  Find a special place at your home and make it your vacation.  And the really good part about a home vacation is, your not tired like you would be if you went on an away from home vacation, ya know the ones you say "I need to go back to work to relax"!!!!
  
   Who am I kiddin I still would like to go to the lake :P
  
   Have a great summer coming up, stay safe from the storms.  Prayers and heart goes out for all those in the storms way with much loss.
  
   Hope all the Fathers had a great Day.  And all those that have and had great fathers, it makes this a very special day.
  
 
  
   All take good care, Blessings over flow

   linda  
   
   
   
   
    
   
   
   
   
   
    
   
   
   
   

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Posted by miniumgallegos

I love the pics! We've been doing staycations for years now! It seems that when the twins were born staycations ruled supreme! I think your garden is lovely and I especially love the chairs around your fire pit! That's a great place to go and relax and make smore's (okay so they're not healthy but they are so yummy!) Blessings!

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Posted by Tipper

Gorgeous photos! Looks like a vacation to me!

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