September Painting

Here are the paintings for this month. Gary's on the left and mine on the right.


As usual the happy trio,
Jan, Olga and Pat, and in that order.

ALOHA!

Mystery Plant

Here is a plant that I got at a plant exchange. The idea was you bring plants and take others home. It was set up in a parking lot and a few tables were at the edges. Many brought them dug up and in tubs or in old pots or in boxes and bags. It was raining the day I went. But so much fun. I had many to share myself.

Anyway...this plant I forgot the name of but was assured it was prolific and pretty.

I planted it and it grew well. Very well. It spread a lot and got very tall. The first year it had no flowers and ihad to dig many of it out. I transplanted some and still it got no flowers. I had it two years. This year I used it as a focal plant in the center of a couple barberries and moon flowers. I tore off all the lower leaves and it got bushy. And lo and behold one day I noticed buds. It was gorgeous!! Yellow daisy like flowers grew all over it. It is tall...about 7 foot high. I wish I knew it's name. But I will continue to plant it here and there. Maybe the secret is let only one grow and water it a lot. Seemed that it liked this treatment.

It dies back each winter and comes back multiple the next year. I have had it 3 summers now and this was the first time it flowered.

Coleus in Pots

These first 3 show the pot on the right side of the garage and the growth thru the summer.
The 4th is is the left side of the garage as of yesterday.

Don't forget to click on each picture to make it full size. They look best that way.
I combined some pictures to show you the growth thru the summer.

I was quite pleased with how big they got.

Zinnias

My zinnias did great this year.
Here they are in late Sept on the way out.
The pot to the right has basil in it.

The yardstick is a 4 foot one.
The pot is only 18 inches high so you can see they are huge.

These zinnias used to be bigger and are now sagging and bending forward.
At one time they were taller than me, But are still over 4 foot tall.
See the orange one way over the top of the ruler? That used to be much higher.
The tree behind has shaded them a lot and now they stretch forward.

South Dakota trip-Custer State Park & Tatanka

Real buffaloes at Custer State Park

The gorgeous scenery.

The depiction of Native Americans on a buffalo hunt at Tananka.

South Dakota trip-Crazy horse and Mt Rushmore

Above -Crazy Horse as it will be when finished. It has been worked on for over
60 years and will take another 100 years to finish.
Below- as it is today.

Mount Rushmore...it is finished..lol
But actually it was not finished cuz the guy died before he got to put some final touches on it but it was left as is as a testimonial to him.
Again...I took tons of pics and some really nice ones.
Unfortunately the ones I took of the night time illumination didn't turn out.

South Dakota trip-The Badlands

I fell love with the Badlands. Oh my..I want to live there. The first pic was taken from the parking lot of the place we stopped at. We had a special guide for a tour thru them and he was so informative. In fact..he stayed with us for 2 full days. After going thru the Badlands we went to the famous Wall Drug store. No pictures of that though.

I took tons of pictures but this blog only lets me upload 5 at a time in a post. But I guess that is enough to show what I saw. I might still get a Picaso account and upload tons there. Then maybe I will be too lazy. Time will tell huh?

South Dakota trip-Corn Palace

Our First stop on the trip...the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD

Above - Gary looking very touristy.
Below-A bench sitting cowboy flirting with me or
maybe me flirting with him...not sure now.

Another full view of the corn place where the whole outside of the building is covered with different natural colored corn.

Sad,,,the doll musuem was closed but I loved the building which was for sale.

Would make a nice house now wouldn't it?