My cottage garden in mid June

My cottage garden is now in it's 8th season. It is different and sometimes better every year.The columbines are just glorious and so are the foxgloves, even tho they hung out under my Lollipop crabapple this year. The roses are just starting to bloom, so I will save those pictures to show you next week when they are at their peak
 My little granddaughters "helped" me in the garden today if you want to call it that, they picked an awful lot of flowers. But that's okay, there is plenty for everyone....I had quite a bit of cross pollination this year on the columbines and foxgloves with some new colors too.

stop by next week for the roses.....

Visiting nana's garden

We had to stop the garden tour when there was more dirt in the bird bath than water....

not the lazy days of summer for me

nope, I can't call this summer lazy by any means~ Hubby Jim and I fit the term "tweeners" to a tee. Taking care of both your adult kids and your parents. Jim's parens have had multiple health issues the last few months. Our son in law was very ill with ulcerative colitis and ended up with major surgery.  He is on the mend now and will make a full recovery. We have been babysitting our 2 little granddaughters a lot to help the family out, but I still manage to juggle the day job with my creative side for my website, but at times I feel stretched thin. Some things I had to let go--my cottage garden is in a state of "jungle" at the moment. I have this HUGE  Sally Holmes rose bush that is begging for a major deadheading. The guest room redo is waiting for me to finish, and our garage is stuffed with our son's belongings as he looks for another place land when college starts in the fall. But not complaining, life is good.
I thought today I would share some recent photos my daughter took (also her photographer) of these precious "midgets" as my other half lovingly refers them to. Sometimes they are also his "rug rats" LOL

Lynsie and Lilian