Golden Hour

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.

My Garden May 10, 2012

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.

My Garden July 28, 2010

My garden still looks very green, we have been getting thunder showers on and off and this has helped the garden tremendously.

I didn’t have enough time to focus on the Red Cardinal and it flew away.  This is the official state bird for North Carolina so there are several living in my backyard.

My string beans didn’t do too well this year, I only get a few string beans every once in a while.

I have plenty of chili peppers this year, some came up on their own and they are a very hardy plant.

My Dad’s Garden July 17, 2010

I spotted the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail near my dad’s garden.

My dad complaint about a dry spell that we’ve been having and said that it’s because of the two months of August this year.  Growing up in America the term of one month repeating itself is not common and actually foreign to most of us. The Lao/Thai calendar is different from the one in the US. If you look at July Thai calendar below, at the bottom of the 17th is the month 88, which means August twice.  It was the first month of August last week, and we are heading into the second month of August. I guess you can view this like a leap year.

I think Phraya Thaen (Lord of the Rains) must have heard him, it rained while I was shooting this video.  I’m not complaining and incorporated the rain into my dad’s garden video.

I’m not sure what my dad was thinking, last year he used white strips of fabric to mark his seedling, but this year he uses a red plastic bag.  The color scheme pretty much sums up the Thai political situation, my dad is not a supporter of the red shirt by the way.