This beauty is as big as a saucer.
Okay, I used pillows piled up on the patio and lay down on the concrete for this shot of one of the resident mockingbirds. I can tell there is more clarity with the camera more still. 
This black and white shot is of the mockingbird nest in my oldest willow. They are so protective and will swoop down within inches of your face when you get this close to the nest. 
It always seem so desolate to me in this shot as this is where the boy's roping arena was in our former life. It has now been turned into a set of working pens for Eddy's cattle. The hill in the distance is at Sturkie.
Okay, I completely wore them out on our walk. Rebel is still awake and taking the first watch.
Bachelor buttons
Shasta daisies=so easy to get started-just deadhead and scatter the seeds-I do this every summer and have them all over my yard. They don't need much water and could care less about the soil.
A delicate bud on the Rose of Sharon bush by the front fence..I have 4 more to set out today.
Looking down the road toward my in-laws-high grass makes good neighbors!
Looking back down at the hay field in the evening.
Up close and personal with the lavender and fairy roses. 
Larkspur purple or blue depending on which paint chip you are looking at in Home Depot!
I tried a different setting for this shot of the lavender-didn't work out so good
This little bed was filled with dry weather sedum until the ice storm took care of all the shade that the elms beside it were providing. When they had to be cut back like an army recruit's head, then I pulled up the sedum and scattered a half pound of wildflower seeds-a little rain and magic!
Knock-out rose-I am planting lots more of these this fall. They are so durable and productive.
A David Austin rose that I have managed to limp along with for 3 years. I just have too much wind and hot sun for these bloomers.
Ah purple cabbage that has survived the rabbit.
Overall view of the one garden with the sunflowers riding in the wind. They provide great protection for the tender plants. I keep pulling the lower branches off so there is not too much shade.
The following is one of my cucumbers that I have planted along the fence of my tiny garden.
Here we have one of my experimental tomatoes growing up through the red plastic shields that are supposed to promote more vigorous growth.
The bud of Sach's rose-planted when he won the presidency of the student government at ASU- I try to plant roses in honor of great happenings in our family. I have 2 lovely yellow ones just now blooming in honor of Reesa's birth in December.
The first purple coneflower of the season. It's a little early but it has been an unusual spring.
