September in the Glade

As anyone who lives in Tennessee will tell you, we have had nothing but RAIN for the past three days---with more on the way. I'm not really complaining though since this is the first year in about three that we haven't had (or almost had) a drought. Hopefully, with all of this rain, that will mean that we will have a wonderful Autumn--with lots of pretty colors.


This past Monday--after George mowed, I took a bunch of pictures in our front yard ---since everything looked so pretty, especially our roses. I'm so glad that I did take all of those pictures then because at the time, we had no idea we were in for THIS much rain this week. SO---in honor of all of our rain (and hopefully some sunshine soon), today's blog will feature our roses and pretty yard. All pictures were taken on September 14. Above is our pretty Autumn Joy Sedum--which is now a beautiful shade of dusty rose. Below are more!







Here's looking up the driveway toward the house--at our roses.









This is taken from the other direction---standing near the garage, and taking the picture across the front yard--toward our beautiful dogwood tree (which is turning red). Note the roses here also.









Above is a close-up of some of our roses --along the driveway.









Isn't this Autumn Joy Sedum just gorgeous? The bees and butterflies love it!







I took this picture not only of the roses in this bed, but also to show you our Confederate Jasmine bush in the background (which blooms from late spring through fall).









For those of you who may be fairly new to my blog, we have about 50 different rose bushes. Most are hybrid tea roses, but some are grandiflora roses.









Here's a close-up of our beautiful pink dogwood. This is one of the first signs of Fall in our area. The dogwoods turn RED. Pretty, huh?









Here's a close up of Tahitian Sunset rosebuds and blossoms. Like so many of our roses, these start out one color as buds--and change colors as they age. The white rose is named Whisper.







Here's one more picture of our Autumn Joy Sedum. I can't get enough of these this time of year.









This is one of my favorites of the roses---showing the ones on the driveway in addition to the bed. We have them in pots along our driveway since roses need sun--and our yard is very shady overall. The driveway is sunny --and the roses seem to do well in big pots.









Finally, here is a picture of our beautiful little home in Fairfield Glade, TN. Come and see us anytime!!!!! We'll put you to work in the garden!


Hugs,

Tellico Plains, TN

Yesterday I shared a few pictures from George's surprise birthday trip in March of 2008. Today, I'm backing up some to my birthday in August of 2007, the year I turned a whopping SIXTY FIVE. As you probably know by now, George and I love to 'surprise' each other with little trips. George has a HARD time surprising me since I'm a "nosy-rosy" person!!! ha.... BUT in 2007, he definitely surprised me BIGTIME.

We got in the car and he drove me from one direction to another ---making me guess along the way where we were going. Then, he'd turn around and go somewhere else. I had NO IDEA--and he loved it. We finally got there though ---and I finally found out that he had rented the cutest little romantic cabin that I'd ever seen--- in the mountains near Tellico Plains, TN from August 3-6, 2007.

What does a 65 year old woman do for her birthday???? WELL---she's gets spoiled rotten by her man. We ate, slept, played in the hot tub, hiked and found some new waterfalls. Hope you enjoy my birthday that year ---through our photos. Above is us standing in front of that cute little cabin. Below are more!




The cabin was private ---and we enjoyed sitting on the little porch.





The cabin was really only one large room plus a bathroom. The kitchen/dining area was on one end of the room and the living/bedroom was on the other end.




This girl was so happy since her Sweetie was doing something special for her outside...... Wonder what???????




He was cooking her a big steak on her birthday!!!! YUMMY!!!!





After a delicious dinner, we sat on the porch and opened cards and gifts.




Since we were there for 3 days, we went hiking and searching for waterfalls one day. This picture is George standing beside the raging Tellico River.




After checking out the scenic Tellico River, we drove up the mountain on the Cherohala Skyway. At about 4000 feet, we stopped at a pull-off and hiked to a gorgeous waterfall. This one is 80 feet high and its name is Falls Branch Falls. Since we were high up in elevation, this hike was not too hot. We really enjoyed it!!!




On another day, even though it was about 91 degrees outside, we hiked down into a deep canyon (2 mile hike) to find this waterfall, Conasauga Falls. This was in the Hiwassee Ranger District of the Cherokee National Forest.





This is not a very good picture ---but I included it so that you could see my RED face. We thought it was hard going down into the canyon in that heat --but it was much harder going back up... I made it though -----because I knew there were two special things waiting for me....???





Here's one thing that was waiting for us..... OH---that felt so refreshing.... AND...





THIS!!!!!! Does this one need any explanation?????? ha ha ha

Do you think I had a great birthday trip?????? You betcha!!!! It was incredible---just like every other minute I am with George Adams.

Hugs,