Flowers and weeds...

I found this picture online this week and thought it was so cute...

it tells the whole story of what's been keeping us busy lately...

because along with the flowers there is always the weeds...

I love the flowers which are blooming around here now.

we have some bird seed planted sunflowers blooming...

see the tiny grass hopper...

 this is the hydrangea in the backyard... It  stays shaded...
But the ones in the front have started getting to much sun, so I improvised, and made them a shade cover...

the lantana in the front bed...

and the day lillies...

But along with all our free bulbs we transplanted we also ended up moving...

WEEDS!

Growing up, every Saturday my sisters and I had to go out and pick a brown paper bag of these small weeds that continuously grew in our yard.  It had to be packed down, full.  We were not aloud to get by with fluffing the weeds to make it seem fuller.  All the years we lived there we never got those weeds under control.  I am now pulling up a 5 gallon bucket full of weeds each morning trying to get these weeds under control.  I think some of the weeds I'm pulling now are the same type of weeds we had to pull up then. 

It brings back memories...

before we moved from Oklahoma, we transplanted this flowering bush  from our house to my Mom's. 

It had originally come from Kenneth's Mom's backyard.  After she passed. 

It' was blooming when we went to visit in May. So pretty.

we brought back this four o'clock from there this visit,  

its going to have red blooms.

while there we also went by a field of Canola. 

It looks like bushes of thin green beans. Inside is the seeds they use to make 

Canola Oil.  The seeds are very small, about the size of sesame seeds. 

It has a bright yellow flower which blooms and its such a contrast to see the acres of yellow flowers in amongst the wheat fields...