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Spring cleaning one of my Bearded Iris beds

It is April and this year things are growing early for Central Oregon. Todays project was to get the old Bearded Iris leaves cleaned out of this flowerbed…. Because the location of this Iris bed gets more sunlight than the other 5 locations it starts blooming earlier. I have also noticed that my peonies are coming up, so not only do I have to remove the old iris leaves but the old peony leaves and the various different seed heads from last years flowers… Some are still standing in this photo in the background.

It all started out as planned, reach out grab a handful of old leaves and toss them into a pile for the compost pile. But… that only lasted a few minutes. When I put in the raised beds for the Peonies and the Virginnia Creepers, I made the fenceline side of those beds with cinder blocks, after replacing and changing the location of the new fence last year, I decided to remove part of the old fence. This year I decided those cinder blocks were ugly and pulled them. (back left side of photo) My plan was to replace them with more large rocks… Central Oregon has a lot of those, and I don’t have to go far to get the new rocks for this project since I have a lot of rocks close by. I have a couple of other rock borders that I want removed and it is a perfect use for those rocks.

Now that I have placed the new rocks in the area between the peony flowerbed and the Bearded Iris flowerbed, it is time to finish cleaning up the old leaves. Wait I haven’t photographed my work yet…. And while I am at it I need to include the gnomes and the trolls.

I wonder why it takes me so long to finish a project……

Hello

Hello world and friends. I have been here before as a matter of fact this would be my third time trying a site of my own. Time has passed and I think I would like to try again. For the last 4+ years I have been participating in a challenge group run by one of my favorite Photographers Nicole Young /Nicolesy. I have learned a lot, mostly how to release my fun inner side…
I would also like to introduce some of my alter ego friends.

pinx in peacock feathers

Starting with Pinx. Now Pink is not a color that I gravitate too. I certainly would not have picked a troll with pink hair, but he came in a load of stuff my friend and I purchased from another online seller. Once I removed the silly wings he began to shine in my photographs for the 2023 year 52 week challenge .

Having so much fun with Pinx I decided to add another Troll and searched Ebay for the right personality. Meet Aqua.

Pinx and Aqua

One of the challenges was reflections I had decided to introduce Aqua to the other members of the challenge group by making it look like Pinx was looking into a mirror and seeing his reflection with different colored hair.

pinx and aqua reflections

It was a success, and took a while before some of the other members of the group realized that there were two of them.

Aqua, Pinx and their pet lizards

Soon they began collecting pets which they called lizards.

Pinx, Poppa T, Aqua, and some of their pet lizards

A trip to the thrift store netted me another troll that was larger than the other two. He had silver hair and Poppa T was added to the tribe.
By the end of the 2023 year I had quite the collection of fun photographs using the trolls

My hope is that I can continue the fun that is photography with the blog.