September at the coast…..the most beautiful time of year in my opinion. The weather is usually clear with maybe some morning mist and warm afternoons. The leaves are just starting to turn and the light has that bit of haze and there is a taste of crispy in the air. A good time for a fire in the fireplace and salmon season is coming to an end and the blackberries are ripe and a beach cottage is a cozy place to…
Lots of little projects at Shell Cottage were finished up during the end of June and early July. I headed to the coast right after school got out in June to oversee the Sea Star project and ended up staying into July. Longer than I thought I would be there but I did get a lot done at Shell Cottage as well! I am finally finished with the bulk of the painting. All the walls are done – Yay! The little hall was…
I started this post last week and have been so busy I didn’t get it finished and posted but here it is…. Just a week late and it’s now July… oh well! (…guess I am on beach time…like everybody else here 🙂 …) The garden is blooming with all kinds of things now in the middle of June. The butterfly bushes are so pretty – lots of color! The shrubs and roses are all blooming and the window boxes are…
Well…I never did find my yard guy…. Sometimes this is how things go down here on the coast…. Here is what can happen in just a few weeks to a lawn next to a row of wild roses… The whole front lawn was about to become part of the rose hedge! And this is what happens when the bark dust mulch never shows up and nobody spreads it on the flower beds… Dang!! *** I was getting quite frustrated so took…
This is going to be a quick little post! I arrived in town Monday night and discovered that for some reason everything in the garden had grown and bloomed and gone crazy! Must be spring! Also…it does not look like anybody has touched the lawn with a mower in weeks! Not sure why….can’t find my local yard maintenance man…hope he is okay! All the wild roses along the fence are blooming which is great since I cut them all way…
Ivy! – A pretty green creeper found growing anywhere and everywhere that it can. Ivy looks lovely on old brick buildings, along northeastern river banks, and climbing up the sides of English cottages. Ivy loves to grow in cool damp climates like England and New England….and along the Oregon coast. Shell’s Cottage must be ivy heaven. There was ivy growing all around the house, the carriage house, and around the trees. There was ivy growing over the fences, under the house and actually through the wall under one…