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I went out to feed my fish this morning, the garden looks so peaceful in the early morning hour. I didn’t have time to take picture, but couldn’t resist and here are a few snap shots of my garden this morning.
Snow peas
Beans
Sunflowers
Sweet Basil
Gardenia
All photos were taken with Canon T2i, and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens.
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.
We were fortunate to have good rainfalls and thank goodness the April frosts didn’t do any damage to my young plants.
Lee was busy digging away.
The look on her face when she saw her bird house.
I don’t know who is trying to build a nest. It is a lot of stuff trying to fit into a small little house.
I made a trellis for the snow peas two weeks ago and it is made from crape myrtle branches that Bo cut down before the Spring of this year. As you can see the crape myrtle tree in the background and the new branches look healthy.
It looks like they are climbing pretty well now, but I had to train the vines to climb at the beginning.
I have never planted pole beans before and I think they need to climb also.
I’m also training the grape vines to climb and will need to make a trellis for the climbing spinach vines soon.
My mom used to plant the spinach vines at the refugee camp in Thailand and it is called pak plunge in Thai.
I planted these pickle cucumbers from seeds, they should be climbing the A-Frame in a week or so. It is amazing how fast they grow.
Chili pepper plant.
These are my second batch of radishes and I put them down in time when the ground was still cool. They are fast growing and should be ready to harvest in a month or so.
I do love basil and planted many this year.
I planted this one in a pot and a good thing about it is that you could move it around.
More Thai basil in pots.
I think it must be the rain that made everything grow so fast. I couldn’t believe how big my cherry tomato plants have gotten.
The mints and pennyworth plants.
My gardenia plants are budding.
My blueberry plants look promising this year. I just hope that the birds will save some for us.
I would not take my chance in eating these mushrooms.
I was hoping to take a few exposures of the birds. I sat and waited and waited, and they flew right by.
The fish are so happy with the new waterfall.
Lee’s white and silver Butterfly Koi has gotten a lot bigger this year.
Bo’s ginkgo tree.
The peach tree bears many fruits this year.
Bo’s walking path is almost completed. He still has to fill in the gaps with sands, and so far it’s looking real good.
All photos were taken with Canon T2i, and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens.
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