A Butterfly Visits

 

Another Garden Project ...

Completed! 

I forgot to take a before photo of the green metal gate I purchased at a yard sale at the end of last month before I painted it blue. It has two sides to it but no standing hardware.  We bought rebar to pound into the ground to hold it up.  With the cost of the rebar rods and the blue spray paint my $5 yard sale purchase cost me much more.

But I really like how it turned out.

View from the front porch of the Sculpture Garden straight ahead.

I got the color blue as close to what the birdbath looks like.

Can you even see the rebar rods holding it up?  Dan had me spray paint those as well.

Shutter Angel

Monday I was able with Dan's help to finish the shutter angel.

If you recall I had put on wings but they were too far down the shutter torso. I had lots of good suggestions on how to fix it.

It's now installed in the Hosta Garden.

I rearranged the boards for the wings and added a long doubled chain for the arms.  There's a halo too if you look closely.

It stands out as I look out from the sliding door.

 Now to the next project - painting a gate bright blue and installing it in the Sculpture Garden.

Haying

 I posted Saturday about how the field behind us was cut. He turned it several times that day and again on Sunday then put it into long mounded rows. Didn't capture photos of that machinery. By Sunday afternoon he was baling it and finished that Monday afternoon.

When he finished today he headed down the main road tractor, baler and crib pulled behind him.