POTATO VINE GONE WILD!

Been having some really nice weather.  Almost 8" of rain for the month and cooler temps-88 degrees today- but the clincher is-little humidity!  I can take the hot temps a lot better when the humidity is low.  Ragweed pollen count must be really high. My throat feels sore and scratchy after being outside!  A good excuse to stay inside and piddle.  :>)

While out I watered some flowers.  That is one potato vine in the pot along with rubrum grass.  The vine covered up some other plants I had in there-I guess all that hot weather is to his liking!! Sun Coleous is in the other two pots-one to each pot.

 While out I also picked some small, scrappy tomatoes.  Still have some blooms and a few green ones left.

 Made cards for two challenges this week-been awhile since I had played in the challenges.  When I first joined Splitcoaststampers I did several each week and really enjoyed them-learned several techniques and tips as well. 

 This card was for the TLC339 challenge.  We were asked to look for the first card we put in our Favorites Folder on Splitcoaststampers and do a similiar card.  Mine was from 2005, a favorite card by Sharon Harnist.  Where I used the floral designer paper Once Upon A Springtime by Graphic 45, Sharon had stamped toile flowers.  She also did the faux linen technique and I used the Stampin' Up Linen background stamp and stamped on my card.  I still like Sharon's card and was happy with mine as I like the coral colors! 

This card was for the MMTPT160 challenge to use birds on our card.  We are to send our cards to a lady who is having health problems if we want to.  Mine will be in the mail Monday. 

RENEWAL

On August 1st we had a grass fire in our pasture that burned about 10 acres. We had three fire trucks from our Rural Fire Department out and they came three times before it decided to not rekindle. God bless the volunteers who worked in over 100 degree heat.  Scary!!  July was a dry month with temps 100+ several days and things were really dry.  Since then we have had 4.35" of rain and cooler temps.  DH said to me this morning that the grass was beginning to grow again.  I took a few pictures to show how rain can renew things. 

 Here is a small portion of the burned area with new grass beginning to come back. 

 I hope the browned leaves on the trees from the fire come back next year. 

 During the heat and drought, several of my daylilies went into dormancy.  Since the cooler temps and rain they are showing new growth!  Daylilies are very hardy plants.

 The Four O'Clocks out by the milk barn reseed back each year and the heat and lack of rain didn't seem to bother them-blooming profusely.

This lone little Cleome decided to live and bloom!

I thank God each day that it wasn't any worse than it was and that no one was injured or had heat related problems!!