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Rainy weather makes frog happy, I spotted this Leopard frog today in my fish pond, just hanging out.
Continued from Wat Lao Buddhavong July 4th, 2009 the 30 Year Anniversary Celebration
As I’ve mentioned in my Lotus or Water Lily at Biltmore post that in Buddhism, the lotus is one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols and one of the most poignant representations of Buddhist teaching, so not surprised to see it here at Wat Lao Buddhavong. In Buddhist teaching, the roots of a lotus are in the mud, the stem grows up through the water, and the heavily scented flower lies pristinely above the water, basking in the sunlight. This pattern of growth signifies the progress of the soul from the primeval mud of materialism, through the waters of experience, and into the bright sunshine of enlightenment (source).
Seems like I’ve been lazy as the name of the post, but I’m actually on vacation this week and have a chance to visit Lazy 5 Ranch again.
It’s a privately owned exotic animal drive thru park that offers a 3.5 mile safari through the gently sloping pasturelands of Piedmont, North Carolina. There are over 750 animals from six different continents. We can see these animals from the safety of our own car or ride on their horse drawn wagons, luckily we didn’t make a reservation and they were able to arrange some spaces for us on a wagon ride, this is my best view thus far.
One of my favorite animals are the Asian water buffaloes, I didn’t get to see one this close when I visited Laos last year, so this is a real treat for me.
My small garden is coming together nicely, I finally have everything planted last weekend, and finally have time to sit and relax.
I try to keep my garden simple this year, I’m thinking about doing a year round garden, growing vegetables in the fall and winter as well, but I still have to do some reading on this. The closest raised bed is the flower garden, I planted strawberry, African marigold, celosia, and Jr. sunflower.
I’m happy to say that I’m almost complete with my garden but I can’t say that my neighbor feel the same way. They’re an older couple and don’t like to do much to their backyard (you can see their backyard from the second photo below), and I’m afraid that I’ve too much going on back there. I recalled when I was digging my fishpond 2 years ago, they wanted to know what I was doing, I guess she thought I was burying someone back there.
When I first have my trellis up, the wife was sitting at her deck staring at it, I could see the expression on her face, “What the heck is that thing?!” I thought that was funny, but I continued leveling my raised beds as if I didn’t see her. This past Saturday, I borrowed my second sister’s truck to go get some top soil. When we got back, the husband came out to pull weeds, gosh how he loves his grass, but the grass is greener on his side.
When I said almost complete, the planting beds are still empty. Since I live in the foothill, we’re expecting another round of frost coming our way, so it should be nice and warm by next weekend. My original plan calls for a swing, but since my GI Joe sister gave me a bench, I thought that I could use that instead, but I didn’t communicate well with my dad. He went out and bought some wood to make the legs, by then I was almost maxed out on my budget, I only have enough to buy a small tiller. It was a hard choice to make, as you can see that I bought the swing instead, and all I can say is that it was a backbreaking work to get this done. This is the before picture.
As for now this is what it looks like, it seems that she could never make up her mind, it was once sitting on her deck, but now it’s in front of her house. It sort of makes me feel nervous looking at it since it’s so closed to her house. Fascinating that it has her initial S, I don’t know if that was intentional.
A view from the top pond.
I find this very odd, she bought her fish the same time as mine, but hers have never gotten any bigger, still the same size as when she first got them, and mine are a lot bigger now, must be in the water. Oxygen in the water that is, I’ve a bigger pump than hers, and also my pond is a lot bigger and fish grow according to the size of your pond.
She has some nice wild flowers in her yard that are in bloom.
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