tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post7612850612695537744..comments2023-06-27T13:07:06.200+01:00Comments on daviddrawsandpaints: A Scottish Garden in Maydaviddrawsandpaintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17431945969048461283noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-34778363530726767532009-05-29T21:22:25.212+01:002009-05-29T21:22:25.212+01:00Aye, gardens are hard work - creating them out of ...Aye, gardens are hard work - creating them out of muddy clay, planting them up, tending to their every sniffle, and CUTTING THEM DOON when they get far too big for their alloted spot!<br />Presently I'm in this latter stage, perhaps tommorrow (or the next day). Meanwhile the sun is still shining tho' the day is fading so I'll jist sit oot in ma front garden, reading a book on art (The Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky [the boy has nae idea!]) and bid the sun a fond farewell until tomorrow when I expect it shall shine again on the <I>Mighty Glasgow Rangers</I> lifting the Scottish Cup once more.<br /><br />Sweet dreams to us all :o)daviddrawsandpaintshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431945969048461283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-52448207666001332392009-05-29T08:04:48.181+01:002009-05-29T08:04:48.181+01:00Fabulous blooms. Very inspiring. I have a garden m...Fabulous blooms. Very inspiring. I have a garden make of mud and clay right now. I look forward to the day or year or lifetime when I have something like this!Andriqueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11100638638420714606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-37431400704879716122009-05-27T18:40:08.714+01:002009-05-27T18:40:08.714+01:00Aye, Dinah, wee Scots know a thing or three about ...Aye, Dinah, wee Scots know a thing or three about bad weather!<br /><br />And, actually I do sound like Ole Blue Eyes - on Kareoke Nite at The Horsehoe Bar when everybody's pie-eyed :o)<br />So you are very safe indeed!daviddrawsandpaintshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431945969048461283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-9623454958811313502009-05-26T21:34:40.892+01:002009-05-26T21:34:40.892+01:00Well, as your redoubtable compatriot says: "there'...Well, as your redoubtable compatriot says: "there's no sich thing as bad weather-just the wrong clothes!" <br />And, if you can sound like Sinatra, it's a deal!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-4951339962951418882009-05-25T20:43:14.603+01:002009-05-25T20:43:14.603+01:00I'm working on it, Brian - in between a multitude ...I'm working on it, Brian - in between a multitude of other things I will never hope to complete in my life!<br />The flowers are marvelous but I really should spend more time with them instead of letting them be strangled by so called "wildflowers" :o)daviddrawsandpaintshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431945969048461283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-1447548350445743892009-05-25T20:29:14.368+01:002009-05-25T20:29:14.368+01:00The flowers look great David - you're surrounded b...The flowers look great David - you're surrounded by beauty. And if you could just invent a digital scent recorder I'm sure Blogger would oblige you.Brian McGurganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11963409828276349170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-15280401074988747982009-05-25T20:11:35.832+01:002009-05-25T20:11:35.832+01:00But such a lovely bellflower - how could you deny ...But such a lovely bellflower - how could you deny it?<br />I suggest with a machette!!!daviddrawsandpaintshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431945969048461283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-11828011367141602762009-05-23T22:40:33.893+01:002009-05-23T22:40:33.893+01:00:>D
my garden is the same! I like a natural ...:>D<br /><br />my garden is the same! I like a natural look, no hard edged lawns or regimented flowers for me and if a weed is pretty it stays<br /><br />.... though I do regret taking that attitude with the columbine - it can beat the miracle of the loaves and fishes in its multiplicationvivienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16820836660470146799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-40425941588845673782009-05-23T19:29:15.916+01:002009-05-23T19:29:15.916+01:00"Come surf with me, let's surf, let's surf away,
I..."Come surf with me, let's surf, let's surf away,<br />If you can use some exotic booze<br />There's a bar in far Bombay<br />Come surf with me, let's surf, let's surf away"<br /><br />"Come surf with me, let's float down to Peru<br />In llama land there's a one-man band<br />And he'll toot his flute for you<br />Come surf with me, let's take off in the blue".<br /><br />Come surf with me, let's zip down to New Zea<br />In Hobbit land there's a golden strand<br />Where continental friends can stroll<br />Along the surf and chat 'til dusk<br />Like we're on some giant roll.<br /><br />Ah, yes "toot yer flute"!<br /><br />Mostly grey skies here today, Dinah, so no sitting out on my three-legged chair sipping the nectar of the gods. It's like bloomin' winter again!<br /><br />Hi Vivien, Even though all mine are supposedly garden flowers I consider them wild just like yours since they have to fight like hell to make themselves heard above the Dandelions and Horsetail!<br />Got a number for a good gardener?<br /><br />ps: make sure you ask the poppies to 'fukumurarai douzo':o)<br />Adiosu!daviddrawsandpaintshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431945969048461283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-14819030754641189942009-05-23T15:29:17.709+01:002009-05-23T15:29:17.709+01:00beautiful :>) the first 2 and bluebells I ha...beautiful :>) the first 2 and bluebells I have too<br /><br />and I'm off to photograph the first oriental poppies to open in a minute.vivienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16820836660470146799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843976962117289186.post-25283974597043943712009-05-23T01:09:58.715+01:002009-05-23T01:09:58.715+01:00All the pretties I used to grow. In a cooler clime...All the pretties I used to grow. In a cooler clime. Of course. This is one of the endearing things about blogs...we we can surf across time and climate zones. Makes us picky, but happy!(Mostly grey skies on my blog, but that could change!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com