I Like Thursday: Lots of Green and Purple

So, wow, this has been a rough week for our nation.  Just when you think things can't get worse?  I don't have anything I can offer in that direction that hasn't been better said by at least a dozen different people. Instead, here's a small slice of every day-ishness.

The garden continues to bloom.  Many plants I recognize; a bunch I'm unfamiliar with.  They're all beautiful.  At some point I need to pull the weeds I can identify, but there's a lot of plants here I'm not sure what they are.  I may invite my sister to come over to point out the good from the bad.

So many irises!  Lots more purple, with a few white and pink (magenta?) ones thrown in.

My goofy metal birds blend in so well, they're almost invisible.  They stood out when I first placed them in the yard a few weeks ago - I will have to move them again.

We have baby bunnies (we call them micro-buns or mini-buns, depending on their size) in the yard.  I spent most of Sunday afternoon tripping over them.  I never saw them until they darted away.  Love to get photos, but they've been too quick.  Zoom!

There is a beautiful patch of vinca (periwinkle) down the street.  The photo shows the lovely green, but not all the little purple flowers.  I would love to establish a patch of this somewhere in my yard.

It's a new month with new calendar pinups.  My wall calendar features Pinniped for June.  Behold, the double wide and that non-stop nose.  Also the many sides of Pinni

My little Cavymadness desk calendar also happens to feature on of my guinea pigs:  Wedgwood with blackberry lipstick.

Ah, yes, some good memories.

Every time I work on quilting projects, I set aside any extra fabric that's big enough to cut masks from.  Masks have become another of my cleanup projects.  I'm currently using hair ties as ear loops and T-shirt strips for ties.  I would like a larger supply of tin ties (Rob can only drink so much coffee at a time).  But I designed these masks to allow removing nose band, so a single tin tie can be used for an entire set of masks.

My latest sewing project is embellishing a tank top (to hide a spot).  I've now made several kinds of flowers and am experimenting with leaves.  I should have enough pieces to try some different layouts by the weekend.

I have been enjoying our garden.  I wander around during lunchtime, in between classes and job searching, checking out what is growing, listening to the birds, watching the hummingbirds and scaring the bejeebers out of the mini-buns.  Very calming.  I planted some tomatoes, squash and kale over the weekend, and I haven't killed them yet.  Go me!

That wraps up this week.  I'm linking up with I Like Thursday over at Not Afraid of Color.  Should be a smattering of different kinds of posts over there, if you need a change of pace.