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Someone has been visiting my garden and nibbling on my flowers and vegetables.
I have been keeping an eye on it and sure enough Saturday morning he visited again, and this time eating my marigold flowers. He saw me and was trying to hide behind the flower bush.
The chipmunk was there also, Bo said that he was the one responsible for stuffing the furs into the bird house. When I saw him my light meter was off since I was shooting in Manual mode and it came out too dark. I had a little help from Photoshop and the photo came out decent but still some digital noise. So the rabbit and the chipmunk live in my garden.
My backyard is a busy gathering place for birds also, this Robin was perching on a flower pot.
It’s a typical Saturday at my dad’s house. I can’t wait till our next camping trip and we are counting down the day.
My dad’s Asian corns are getting taller, pretty soon I won’t be able to see Lee sitting on the other side of the backyard.
The weather was in the 80s and perfect weather for a cookout.
My sister has to help the Snow Peas climb the teepee trellis at the beginning and now they can help themselves.
Beans and Snow Peas
Long string beans
Cucumber plants
The Thai eggplants were big enough to plant, I still have yet to find a place to plant mine. My sister gave the young plants to me last week and there’s no more room in my planting beds. I do have to move some of the plants around.
Cherry tomato plants
I never knew what they look like after the white flowers disappeared.
I bet you can clip this off and plant the bulbs in the ground for a new spring onion plant.
The Kaffir Lime tree grows new leaves in the Spring.
The Pomegranate tree produces many flowers this year, but so far I have not seen a fruit.
It is Spring cleaning at my dad’s house, Bo helped my dad pressure wash the storage shed.
The white fence has mildew over time.
And the wooden bench.
Don’t ask me what’s Lee doing, I guess a karate move or something.
All photos were taken with Canon T2i, and EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens.
Before I start my Saturday Random Photos, or some might call it Saturday ranting photos, I like to wish all the wonderful mothers out there a very Happy Mother’s Day. I have not posted my mother’s orchid in a while and it’s not doing too well this year. My sister needs to re-pot it soon, the flowers wilted before they even bloom. This year we are heading to the temple to make merit for my deceased mom, she is gone but not forgotten and will always be in our heart.
My second sister’s orchid has many blooms.
Back to my Saturday ranting photos, the hype is fitness these days.
Lee has her 5 pound dumbbell set, and a 1 pound weighted hula hoop. My niece is using my 3 pound weighted hula hoop below.
I like the 3 pound hula hoop since it is padded with foam and it gives a good work out while watching TV.
This is Lee’s normal daily routine. She has grown by leaps and bounds this year, and I think it’s time for her to move on to using the 2 or 3 pound weighted hula hoop. They had a hula hoop contest and my niece won on this round.
Lee won on the second round of hula hooping 2 hula hoops. If you were to ask Lee she would tell you that this is her talent. 
The girls were having so much fun that I didn’t have to pay my niece to levitate this time.
My dad has been retiring for over 10 years now, and he still look very fit for his age.
His Asian corns are growing, and I can see that my second sister has a lot of weeding to do.
The snow peas in the above photo are climbing the teepee trellis.
We used to live up North and I didn’t notice the red clay dirt, especially in New York. When I was in High School we lived in Philadelphia for 2 years and our back yard dirt was dark from what I could recall. But as we moved further South the dirt is red, and this is North Carolina red clay soil.
I’m not planting the long string beans this year but my dad is despite the bad crops that he had last year. It must be a tradition and it wouldn’t be a Lao garden without the long string beans.
Cucumber plants
Chili pepper and tomato plants.
My dad bought top soil to mix in with the clay dirt for gardening.
It’s another year of beautiful Pomegranate flowers.
But sadly this might be another year of fruitless pomegranate also.
My dad’s front yard has many beautiful flowers blooming. This one my second sister planted several years back.
And some are fading fast and this stresses the fact of life that nothing last forever. Time waits for no one.
Dark orange marigold made me think of the Buddhist worship flowers, and also the color of the monk’s rope. The background was where her fishpond used to be and now it is a small rose garden.
This defeats the whole purpose of exercising would you say, Lee was getting ready to make S’mores and parading around with Hershey’s chocolate.
This is an American classic in every child’s treat especially at camping.
But not so much of the stove since this is a Lao classic stove for cooking. My mom bought this from Tennessee many years ago, and it is used for cooking back home. The stove is powered by charcoal.
The girls dumped the burnt marshmallows in the stove.
We had a lot of fun in the backyard and look forward to making more S’more at camping.
All photos were taken with Canon T2i, and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, except for the first 2 photos were taken with the EF 50mm f/1.4 lens.
Patch is back, don’t you think he is a chick magnet.
His only drawback is that he is a biter.
And the girls love and fear of him at the same time.
So he ended up walking himself.
Lee was afraid to come out and play.
Perhaps a treat from his owner might calm him down.
Bo was trying to discipline him, not sure if he understood the lecture.
My niece agreed to levitate for me today, but for a small fee. I can’t believe my model is getting expensive, it was $5 for less than 5 minutes of jumping. I made her jump longer than normal, it’s a good exercise. 
I live less than 10 miles from my dad and the cold frosty night last week didn’t do any damage to my garden, but I can’t say the same about my dad’s garden. I think it might be that I have big trees in my backyard and my dad’s backyard sits on top of a hill, perhaps it might be colder in his area also.
My sister didn’t cover up the cucumber plants because it was so windy the night of the frost, and several didn’t make it and the ones that did don’t look too good.
The snow peas don’t look too good either.
The ones in the raised bed are doing okay and I heard that it is because the raised bed collects heat during the daytime and is warmer at night.
My dad’s Asian corns finally sprouted.
The Thai eggplant and chili pepper seedlings took a growth spurt, finally.
This might look better close up but I want my oldest sister to see how tall this rosebush has gotten. I planted it years ago, it is at least 15 year old.
More flowers from my dad’s front yard.
I do wish that I have a macro lens, it would be so neat to see a bug’s life.
All photos were taken with Canon T2i, and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens.
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. My sister Bee brought her new puppy to my dad’s house yesterday to play, both my second sister and dad said that it is ugly. I’m not sure if they meant literary. See, it is a custom for Laotian to say something is ugly when it is cute, especially for a new born baby so that the evil spirit won’t come and take the baby away. But I’m not sure in this case if it applied to dog and cat as well.
I guess in his case, it’s all speculation and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
She named him Patch because of his colors and I’m glad he has found himself a loving home.
Lee loves dog and cat, and drooling over him. Despite us being Asian, I hope you don’t take the drooling part literary, and no we don’t eat dog or cat. It looks like Lee has found her new playmate, and I’m sure they will be spending more Saturdays together.
He got her cornered.
My dad and second sister finally planted their garden.
A new trellis went up next to the lemongrass planting bed.
It is a trellis for snow peas. Snow peas is one of the earliest-known cultivated plants with evidence of having been cultivated in a region that is now along the Thailand-Burma border over 12,000 years ago. Source.
They do like to climb.
I’m beginning to think that this is going to be another year of fruitless Pomegranate.
At least they have pretty flowers and you could use the leaves to make tea.
My dad and second sister planted Asian corn, they had a good crops last year.
They planted a row of normal size cucumber, and the cucumber plants will climb on trellis. This makes picking so much easier, and a lot cleaner.
And long string beans, which my dad has better luck than me.
If you are wondering about my sister’s seedlings, they are still very tiny. My sister is baffled and not sure why it is taking them so long to grow. It doesn’t look like I will get to plant the Thai eggplants this year.
Bamboos are some of the fastest growing plants in the world, and kind of scary how you planted them in your yard and the next thing you know it appears in the middle of your neighbor’s yard. This one is at the edge of my dad’s yard and he poured a cement foundation for it so it wouldn’t be able to spread. It was a lot of work, but I think he sleeps better at night knowing that his bamboo shoots won’t be bothering this neighbors anytime soon.
The shoots came out early and he has enough to make Bamboo soup.
we still have some cold nights, and the frosts did a lot of damages to the new leaves.
I’m glad that the Rhododendron came out later, and were in full bloom on Saturday.
There are plenty of spring flowers blooming during this time.
It was dusk when we got home, and I’m glad that there was still some daylight for me to take picture of my purple Iris.
Bo’s Paeonia ‘Krinkled White’ finally bloom.
My Knockout Roses are in full bloom, and a few tall bamboo shoots in the background. We have been getting a steady rainfalls and this has helped the plants tremendously.
Photos were taken with CanonT2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens.
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