New Friends, Fireworks & Fuchsias

Todd & I had a nice weekend despite the 90° plus weather  :) Ok, so it’s not as bad as growing up in California…but it’s hot with no air conditioning! Saturday evening we met up with our new friends from Christ Group (about 11 of us all together) to watch the fireworks in Sumas. It’s about a 10 minute ride from Everson and they have the show every year a week before 4th of July. Our friend James (Todd’s work) told us about the event because he was one of the helpers to light off the fireworks. I have to say, it was a great show. They did a good job and the finale was amazing. I hope this becomes a tradition for us.

One of my fuchsias just opened up on Saturday too. I am very excited! It’s neat to see something you planted come to life, especially beautiful and exotic fuchsia blooms. I have five planters on the front of the house with three different fuchsia types. Only one, (Lena variety) has fully opened.

Poppies

When these were beginning to sprout we thought they were weeds. So we sprayed and pulled and sprayed some more until most were gone or shriveled up. Thank goodness we still missed quite a few because they turned into beautiful poppies. I grew up with the California poppies but never realized they came in more colors than just orange. The red and purple are opium poppies :)

 

House Tour: Part 2

Here are a couple photos I took awhile ago of our master bedroom. I posted a few other decorated house pictures back in March (kind of embarrassed of the floral couches, someday soon I’ll get new ones)…I guess I am a little behind with the updates.

This is the best angle of our room. The slider gives lots of light…when we have light ;)

The dresser is in front of the wall that Todd built...it used to be a closet opening from our room into the office. The closet now only opens in the office…if that makes any sense. Remember this post?

In the Garden

I am really enjoying my garden and am so very thankful to the previous owner for planting everything and making it all so wonderful. I hope she doesn’t miss her flowers too much. I think of all the wonderful flowers in the garden, peonies are my favorite. They are just so big & beautiful. Roses are a close second.

I also wanted to share a few pictures of our patio. It is in the shape of an “L” with 31 rose bushes lining it. The picture with the shoes is looking out from our dining room slider (the short end of the “L”). Roses make for such a lovely view at dinnertime :)

*Lately, I haven’t allowed pictures to be clickable because sometimes a different picture pops up instead of the one you thought you were enlarging. I have no idea why my computer (probably camera issue) does this. I will try to remedy this, or at least allow a few that can enlarged.

*Can anyone tell what the yellow flower is at the end of this post? It looks like a daisy-type bloom, but not sure exactly.

What’s in a name?

My roses have begun to open with lots of pink, peach, yellow and red blooms. All of them have buds, but I can’t quite make out some of the colors yet. I was only able to include a few names of the roses which still had tags attached. I am missing more then half of the tags, which is sad since I don’t know roses very well. The reason why there are a couple pictures of each rose is because they were taken on different days. I was playing with the lighting and am still trying to learn ISO & F-stops with my old “advanced" point & shoot :)

Teddy Bear Cove

    This is one of our favorite beaches off the Chuckanut Drive. It became our favorite while living nearby in Bellingham, now it takes about 40 minutes to get there. Once there, it is about a 3 mile round trip hike from where we have to park.  Part of the hike is down a slightly-steep trail (& back up), but it is well worth it. We usually just walk around the area (there is a bluff to hike up to), collect sea glass, or just sit and enjoy the sunshine. I got to see a river otter feeding which was pretty cool. Todd had Monday off, so we thought it would be a perfect place to relax…and it was :)

Sunday Drive

Todd & I took a drive thorough the beautiful countryside in our area. We headed East on Mount Baker Hwy through Deming for a couple miles, then right onto Mosquito Lake Rd (this is for those who know the area). Several miles down, we turned off onto an unkept road that took us through some trust lands. The first few photos are from that area. Then we made our way back on Hwy 9 through Van Zandt on home. It was quite beautiful back in there, well worth the gas :) We also visited parts of the Nooksack River, where the bridge & flower pictures were taken. The bald eagle pictured  lives near our part of the river (he was very tiny, even all the way zoomed in)