A couple of cool dogs of Long Beach. This dog was hanging out the window of the kite shop north of the Bolstadt stoplight in Long Beach. Two other passersby were taking photos, which is what drew my attention to the dog…At first, I thought they were just photographing the bright cheery yellow paint job. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dogs’
flashback: July & August 2009 — cool dogs of Long Beach
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, tagged dogs, Long Beach (Washington), NIVA Green, tulips, Wind World Kites on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
flashback: 2009 — The Dogs of Summer
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, tagged Doggie Olympic Games, dogs, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, Sand Flea Pet Parade, Sandsations on March 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Interpersed between our days of gardening and garden tours are a couple of delightful dog events in Long Beach, Washington. Doggie Olympic Games I took a lot of pictures of the action-packed Doggie Olympic Games on June 20th. Usually D.O.G. conflicts with the Hardy Plant Study Weekend, but because that weekend was on its year [...]
flashback: 2009 — the continuing drama of the Ilwaco planters
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, finger blight, plants, public gardens, tulips, tagged bulbs, cats, Cosmos 'Sonata', dogs, finger blight, gardening, Ilwaco, painted sage, planters, Time Enough Books, tulips, volunteer gardening on March 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
We continued to plant, groom, and bucket water the Ilwaco planters, as well as two at the library that we took on as a small volunteer project. (plants: Cosmos ‘Sonata’, Salvia viridis (painted sage), Diascia, Golden Marjoram, Violas) But wait, what is THIS? Some yobbo (walking between the port and the local tavern?) pulled a [...]
flashback: 2009 — Sea Nest and Casa Pacifica
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, grasses, perennials, private gardens, public gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged Casa Pacifica, deer, deer-resistant plants, dogs, gardening, ornamental grasses, private gardens, roses, Sea Nest on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The only reason these two gardens are sharing a post is that I took few pictures of them in 2009. Sea Nest, a wonderful place to stay on the Long Beach Peninsula, had changed owners and we were changing the garden to be more low maintenance. For some reason the deer don’t bother this garden, [...]
flashback: July 2009 in Joanne’s garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, tagged bullfrogs, dogs, frogs, gardening, horses, Joanne's Garden on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I love it when we go to Joanne’s memorial garden and the horses come to the fence near where we park expecting a treat. The pastures are extensive so it’s especially friendly when they trot up from way down the road. After a bit, they get back to their own business. We park by the [...]
Flashback: 2009 — The Year in Cheri’s Garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged cats, Cheri's garden, Discovery Coast Real Estate, dogs, Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve', gardening, hardscaping, Ilwaco, private gardens, rhododendrons, tulips on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cheri’s garden in Ilwaco was created and planted up by Cheri and Charlie; all we have done is enhance it with our favourite plants. According to my photo records, we have been helping to care for the garden since at least 2007. Our first wake-up call to the garden on March 9th, 2009, found crocus [...]
flashback: October-December 2008 — two one-time jobs
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, hardscaping, narcissi, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, Basket Case, bulbs, deer, dogs, garden design, gardening, hardscaping, hydrangeas, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach Peninsula, plants, private gardens, Sea Nest on February 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
One time jobs….One-off jobs….Occasionally we take them on although I much prefer gardens in which we’re involved in the ongoing process. In mid October we took on a big weeding job just as one drives into Ilwaco from the east. Health reasons had caused the owner to let her garden go dormant and she needed [...]
flashback: 12 July 2008 — Astoria garden tour
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, private gardens, tagged Astoria garden tour, Cathy Peterson, Daily Astorian, dogs, garden touring, gardening, water, waterfall on February 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I don’t want to make anyone feel bad, really I don’t, but I often find the Astoria garden tour a bit disappointing. I think this is because it is put on by a society whose focus is preservation historic homes rather than hortheads and because I have spoiled by garden tours by The Hardy Plant [...]
flashback: 23 June 2008 — Sheila’s garden
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, perennials, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged dogs, garden touring, gardening, private gardens, roses, Sheila's garden on February 21, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Allan drove down from Ilwaco to Sheila’s on Sunday night because I had a carload of plants to take back with us. Pretty much all of them were for our own garden to enrich it before the tour that was less than a week away. We woke Monday morning to glimpses of Sheila’s garden through [...]
flashback: 15 October 2007 — the two fall clean-up philosophies
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Ann Lovejoy, cats, dairy manure, dogs, fall clean up, gardening, horses, Jo's garden, Laurie's garden on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An aside: the new horse at Laurie’s is in its own corral because one of the other horses took a dislike to it. We have three cats, one of whom hates the other two, but it is a lot easier to manage three incompatible cats than three incompatible horses! The cats find their own private [...]
