Spring Lilies and an Old Coal Bucket

Usually the only time I see these in my yard, it is in the early

spring. Last week I went out in the heat

of August and here they are.

We call them Naked Ladies....

I rescued this old coal bucket from the yard at

Mom's farm house...it is in sorry shape.

I have been watering it and the Hens and

Chicks are looking better than they did in this

picture I took a couple weeks ago.

I am having a bear of a time getting the

darn fescue grass pulled out.  I know it

is not much to look at but I want

to get it looking better....because

Mom painted it and planted it.

Now, that she is past 90 and not

able to do more than help look after

herself on good days....the things

she created mean a lot to me.



I usually do not see these dried leaves

all over the place until after the first

hard frosts of fall, but we have had such

a drought of a summer the leaves are

just falling off all over the place.