Well all the beautiful summer flowers died off in the November freeze. In early December I dug out an ~200 gallon pond for some water gardening. I'm still working on the coping and waterfall. I have about 200lbs of rocks left to place. In the pictures you see about 500lbs. roxrhevi. So far I've only been able to find some water mint and I'm nursing equisetum to plant around it.
Also I planted a little flower bed with violas and alyssum for Ms. Boo to look at out my window. I think it needs a bunch of bulbs or something behind it. Maybe snaps after this cold surge.
I need to spray my snapdragons with hot sauce cause the squirrels be eatin the flowers.
This week I'm building a new Computer. I'll have all the parts in tomorrow!
Since cold weather is coming the annual garden only has a month or so left. She got a good mulching today to prepare for reseeds next spring and to keep them alive as long as possible.
Garden in late July on the left, and in October on the right.
Thepentas really beasted out with a lot of dead heading. Cleome looks sweet too.
In another spot, I planted some perennials and evergreens so they could establish strong roots for spring. At which point they should be blooming with awesome. The Agastache in the middle smells incredible.
Last but not least, Miss Boo requested her own garden. So we got down and planted some creeping rosemary, catnip, lemon verbana, and allysum.
I put in some bolds and italics cause this post looks so boring in thumbnails.
Worked a lot more on my mom's garden. Yeah I like flowers.
Most of the Vincas I originally planted in the front row died. I think it was root rot so I planted everything else with a nice padding of perlite under it to drain better. Anyway, we gots in thar (middle out):
Front row - Melapodium, Zinnia, Vinca, Mexican Heather.
2nd Row - Zinnia varieties
3rd Row- Butterfly bush, Pentas
4th Row - Purple cone echinacea, Cleome.
Also, butterflies chill here all freakin day.
Really crappy example, but there's one.
Anyway, the gnome needs a name. He's jolly and sullen. Yeah that's right. Any suggestions?
About damn time! Looks like they already have a good bit of work done on it too.
Pretty pictures and videos - www.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/index.xml . The game play trailer shows just how polished the game already is. Impressive how secret blizzard has been about it while already having this much production finished.
Been planning my garden a while. Landscaping is finally over so I started getting my plants this weekend. Didn't actually put anything in the ground today because of the rain.
Anyway, Ma' wanted a nice annual flower garden in this strangely barren spot in the back yard. So yippee I get to plan and plant.
Here's the before pic -
And I've picked out the flowers for the 1st row so far. Here's an idea of what they'll look like.
From center out - Melapodiums,(sore spot for the sprinkler), Zinnias, Vincas. I plan on having it kind of layered so each rowish/clumpish thing will be taller than the one in front of it. Friends come in all sizes. For my awesome garden, we had the landscapers plant the Butterfly Japanese Maple. Before-
This is what I have so far-
Bougainvillea's and some Fernleaf Hedge Bamboo. One old school azalea budding in the corner too. With some luck from mother nature I can get this all planted tomorrow and spend the rest of my week ruminating about what to plant next. Spaghetti
Finally finished up this sucker. Need to touch up the claw a little and then add some flora, but it turned out decently. I broke about 4 of my feathers today ><
Please buy me a PS3, 12 gunblades, and a pre-ordered FFXIII for Valentines day. I need to kick imperial ass and protect my magical crystals on a daily basis both fantastically and realistically.
Tail feathers done. Mixed the medium blue yesterday but just got too tired to finish up the wings/body. Took like 3 and half hours for the feathers so far.
SQUAWK or QUACK.
Whatever noise flamingos make, this baby can. Tip of the beak will be covered by feathers. That shit was just too tiny to make look really polished.
I said shit, because I'm listening to Classic Rap, ho.
The goose is loose!
Yeah, it kinda looks like a goose, but I haven't done the face with the trademark flamingo schnoz yet. At least it's coming to life. I left a groove in the face for the eyes and beak attachment so that part shouldn't be too hard.
Sounds good enough to be a code name. Bear and I were talking about some polymer clay (like Sculpey) sculptures on a WoW site, World of Raids. Exhibit A -
For a while now I've been working with sculpey, making decent, albeit highly cartoonish figures for my mom and gifts and stuff. Exhibit B - Anyway I figure it's time to bring the quality of the work up a notch, but I really didn't know how, and still have very little idea how to make the figures so sleek, since the clay is often too soft and deformable to get too detailed with. Drawing most of the new techniques I'm practicing from Elvenwork. I started with making an armature from copper wire (not ideal) and aluminum foil. They were too hard to glue together so I tried to bond them with some trash clay. It worked out alright. Here's the result -
I wicked some clay over night to make the base ready to shape. I think I used too much paper cause it took a ton of kneading to make it workable. The clay was much less impressionable than right out of the wrapper, but a bit dryer than I wanted. This picture is from before I baked the base, which is now set pretty well and looks sturdy. Base -
I plan on trying to get the body done this weekend, and maybe the neck. P.S. Tiptup bitches!
Hunk of Handsome. If you like him, see the movie Juno. He is not the main character but gets some sweet screen time. Juno is a good movie end in itself as well.
Synopsis: Cera knocks up a babe in high school, funny stuff happens, and some serious stuff happens, while the babe figures out what to do with the baby. Just be yourself, as long as that means that you are a successful person. - Michael Cera P.S. Watch Cera's internet mini-series, Clark and Micheal
Apple Unveils New Product Unveiling Product! The Apple God in the Sky, Steve Jobs, recently unveiled a new "product unveiling product," which should revolutionize how products are unveiled. I'm excited. Are you?
I said shit, because I'm listening to 
Anyway I figure it's time to bring the quality of the work up a notch, but I really didn't know how, and still have very little idea how to make the figures so sleek, since the clay is often too soft and deformable to get too detailed with. Drawing most of the new techniques I'm practicing from 
