Nursery's and Walks in park during Concerts

I always am so happy when this plant stand opens in April.

I am hopeful that Spring is really here and it is getting time to plant for spring and summer even tho it is a tad cool yet. Fair and I buy lots of our plants here during the three months it is here. Its only about five minutes from us in the parking lot of our very tiny mall.

These plants come from two nurseries in towns not far from us but a ways away.

I always feel so sad when it closes up around the 4th of July. That means planting time is really late after this, and we must go further out to find plants if we want any more.

I love the beauty of all the flowers in here.

BE SURE TO ENLARGE PHOTOS.

This is the last week for this year.

Fair and Con and I are still walking. we go when we can. Evening or early morning or afternoon.
What ever works. but now it is getting hotter it will probably be early mornings like today.
Last Tuesday we went about seven pm and it is concert night every Tuesday in the park.
Parking is all over where we walk. Parking is crazy but we are now parking at the duck pond instead of the park and no one has figured that out yet.

Last Tuesday it wasn't bad at seven and it was Reggae night.
Since I had never been there during concerts I had to walk around a bit to see how crowded it was.

We usually have a half Shell but it got torn during that bad rain and wind storm a few weeks ago. It is on order but they are using the curtain for now. Since it is called Music on the Half shell it loses something with a curtain. :))

I think this shot is showing the River that is behind the curtains. It is the very same River that goes by our house. Last night we went again and it was some Rock group. but we didn't go check it out.

Fair decided last week that she wanted some Ice Cream. We have the best Ice cream here.

by Umpqua. also name of the Rivers that flow thru our town. North and South Umpqua.

I got a kick out of this shot of Con and Annie. This was the first time Annie had been in any kind of a crowd and she didn't know what to make of it. She went up and put her cold nose on the back of this girls leg and con was pulling on her but look at that grin.

We all succumbed to an Ice cream cone. Con and Fair got Raspberry swirl and I got my favorite, Chocolate Thunder Brownie. OMG It is GOOD.

Last night we got NOTHING. . . just kept walking.

:)

This morning we got out there walking at seven. We knew it was going to be 90 today or close to it.

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Last week we took a drive out to a cute nursery that was about 25 minutes away and on the North Umpqua River. We have bought things from Dan at the Farmers Market since we have been here and went there once when we first moved here. I had forgotten house neat a Nursery it was. I wanted another Fairy rose for my front Arbor that had that American Beauty Rose on it. Every year that Rose would bloom and look beautiful for a couple weeks and then get black spot and lose all it leaves the rest of the summer. so we replace it with another Fairy rose that does so well on our other Arbor.

Dan and his wife Moved up from So Cal 20 some years ago to open a Nursery and bought a house with land and made it their home and a wonderful Nursery. I wish I had asked him If I could take pictures sooner then I did as I missed some great shots of Cherry trees full of cherries.
This shot of there sign is across the street on the River but it is there land.

Peeking over the front fence. Have to deer proof things.
It looks like a jungle in there.

Going in the gate.

They have a friend that did this and another mural in there. I loved it and finally asked if he minded me taking pictures. Why am I always so chicken to ask?

This is on our way out. He has plants sitting all over. not every thing is in one spot. its like he decorates a spot with his plants.

We got a five gallon Fairy rose as he is the only one who carries them around here and we got a photinia bush for our back side fence. and some plant food he says is fantastic for getting roses and other things to bloom over and over. I will see if it works.

I hope to go back there soon. Fair wants to go check it out so I will be sure and take my camera and get some better photos.

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Three more days till Lynn gets here some time Saturday morning. She will be only staying a couple hours as she is heading the stay over night with a very good friend of there's out past this nursery. I am looking forward to their short but sweet visit.

Sure is nice having motivation to get things done we have been procrastinating about.

:))