Thursday This and That

Hi everyone. 

I'm here today with another tag for Valerie's Recycle and Reuse challenge at Tag Tuesday.  This tag is a little bit of summer.

I actually reused a bookmark I received as a freebie (it came with a used book I ordered) as the base of my tag. I painted it white and covered it with some printed tissue paper from my stash because after being used, it was a little worn looking.  The tissue paper originally came from an order at Joggles, an online craft store. She always wraps what you buy with tissue paper before shipping, and unless it is taped too much and I can't unwrap it without a lot of wrinkles, I save that paper.

I then added some pink washi tape, a scrap of left over gold foil paper trim, a bird that I had die cut ages ago and pulled out of my die cut scrap box, as well as gluing down a gold foil paper sun I had. Finally I stamped the quote.

There you have my tag!

Let me also share the last of the photos from Berkshire Botanical Gardens from back in late July. They  had an interesting vegetable garden area. which was near the barn where they had a summer program for children. 

I was interested in  this area because my veggie garden usually ends up filled with weeds, and I am curious how I can spruce that up. Mine is much smaller than what they had at the Botanical Garden, but then, even I don't want to exactly copy theirs, I did like some of their ideas.

I really want to make one of these little tic-tac-toe boards to put near the fire pit. It would be so easy to do.

Hope you enjoyed your visit and that you day is going or goes well. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

 

More of Berkshire Botanical Garden

  Hi everyone.  

First a moment of silence to remember the lives lost 20 years ago on 9/11. It was a horrible time in our (not just in the US but much of the world's)  contemporary history.

Happy weekend.

No boating  for my husband and I this weekend, as there is an airshow near where we boat, and lots of people will undoubtedly decide to launch and watch the airshow from the water. We've done it before, and it is fun, but since we've done it, we don't need to fight the  crowds on the water and at the   boat ramp again.

I am meeting a friend I haven't seen in 19 months because of covid for lunch today. She and I always get a summer lobster roll ( or at least we did until last summer), so this might be the last lobster roll until next year. It is going to be a nice day, so the plan is to eat outside. It won't be from Pop's though as they closed last weekend until 2022, but that's OK. (I never did make it back there as I hoped, but that is also OK.) I am actually more excited to catch up with my friend even if we didn't do a lobster lunch.

Since it is Saturday, rather than some art, let me show you more of Berkshire Botanical Gardens back from late July. Google decided to invert the order of many of these photos, so you'll have to walk backwards. Smile.

I'll warn you, there's a lot of photos today. Smile again.

It is nice to see these pretty gardens though since most of my gardens are looking pretty tired right now.

One fantastic feature they had at the garden was their lily walk. In late July the lilies were blooming beautifully. And since it had recently stopped raining, the lilies were sprinkled with raindrops. 

OK, I got a little carried away with all the lily varieties. 

Here's some scenes and views other than lilies.

 There were a few interesting places to sit, if it wasn't so wet. I'd love one of these hippo benches. 

And I don't know about you, but raindrops looks good on almost all plants.

They also had some interesting shrubbery.

And lastly, I really liked this pot and those big hostas too. I moved mine at home a couple of weeks ago with the hopes they'll be bigger next year also.

Have a wonderful first half of your weekend. And thanks for visiting.