Photo Update

Hi!

So I finally hooked up our camera and downloaded the photos. So you're getting some random photos tonight!

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First, some doings from my garden this year.

My mom brought me some iris last year. She thought she was bringing me yellow ones, since I already had some purple Japanese iris. We were both surprised when this is what bloomed:





My mother-in-law bought me bulbs for Christmas. Some got here in time for Christmas, and some came separately in the spring. The squirrels had a field day eating the bulbs, but I was able to force some inside. These sweet little daffodills were some of the only ones that bloomed this year. Next year they'll be gorgeous.





I really thought my clematis weren't going to survive the winter, but they sprouted and have been going great guns all summer long. Here's two of the colors that I have growing on our fence posts.








Finally, this is the double delight rose that I thought was a goner for sure. Instead, it bloomed three times so far, and has another bud coming! The rest of my roses are legging out, but not blooming a lot. I think it is because of the late transplant and lack of sunshine early in the summer. Next year they'll go crazy in their nice sunny spot.

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This spring, the theme for Women's Weekend was "Wild Wild West." Brian set up a photo-booth, and we had to have our picture taken together.

We're the baddest outlaws in town, pilgrim.

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I went to a week-long geology field camp for Earth Science teachers. I took lots of nerdy photos, including one of S. and I sitting on a stromatolite formation.

This is me just before I chimneyed up a narrow little passageway to an incredible view of a high-elevation lake. If you look closely, you can see that this is actually a HUGE thick layer of very coarse conglomerate, sitting atop crystalline limestone. Crazy!

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Last but not least, here are the photos of Brian's office remodeling.

Here's the before views:









And here are the after views (he still needs to sort out and tidy up some stuff, but it's a week before his season, so this is when his office is most chaotic anyways)