Sunbathing

Wednesday, I caught Rainey and Spot sunbathing in/next to the living room window. It was cool and windy, but they were nice and warm.

I moved a lot of plants out to the back porch, so Spot is enjoying getting to stretch out. I had also dropped the curtain panel on the big window pane to let in the solar gain and the cats like to lay on the extra padding it provides.

That night I had to bring in most of the plants as we had a frost warning (got down to 28*). I finally got to put them back out late yesterday morning as our temps should be fine from here forward

The creeping phlox are finally in full bloom. If you remember, last week only the bright pink phlox were blooming (they get more sun). I was happy the bright pinks lasted log enough to get a picture of all together.

An 8-10' branch from the neighbor's lilac came down over the winter. Weirdly it still leafed out and bloomed anyway. While cleaning up his yard last weekend,  I took a couple of snips from it before tossing the rest into his brush pile (the vase is 10" tall for scale). Yes, they smelled as good as they looked. 

Both the blooms and leaves stayed fresh a good long time too. Most of the week they took massive amounts of water so I filled the vase several times a day. I emptied the vase yesterday evening. I could have kept them another day or two as the leaves were only half wilted, but decided to stick the branches into the ground by the shed and see if they do anything. Probably not, but you don't know unless you try.

Comments

[Cop Car]

That is quite a beautiful mass of tri-colored phlox, Bogie, and I could nearly smell the lilac. I have not had good luck with lilac over the years, so I hope that your lilac gene's came from your grandmothers.

The kitties look quite comfy.

P.S. The shed looks good!
P.P.S. How massive can the amount of water taken up be with that small a vase? ; )

[bogie]

It may be small to you, but that vase is the biggest one I have and holds a lot of water. Massive means it took up way more water than any bunches of flowers I put in.

I put in about 20 oz a day. I kept one of my water bottles next to it and nearly every time I passed it I was adding water (and since the pellet stove is still in use, I actually ended up putting the flowers in the kitchen, so I passed by it a lot).

[Cop Car]

Perspective is everything. The vase does look tiny, but 20 ounces is a lot of water!