Flowers and Rocks

I enjoy a wide variety of daffodils on my property. None planted by me but all appreciated. I ran around and took photos of everything. There are lots of the standard variety: yellow bell surrounded by yellow petals. Here in Oregon those grow wild all over the place, including people’s yards.

Pedro and I are lucky to live in a place where someone at some point put a bunch of fun different types of daffodils into the soil.

I finished a small project that addresses a few problems for us. One is that we have buckets, boxes, and bags of pretty rocks that belong to Kellen and I have been carrying these things around for years. Since we moved here, they have been sitting beneath the rhododendrons in the back yard, being an eyesore. Two is an area of rocks at the end of the driveway that used to be more piled up, but has been sliding into the clay and becoming embedded and ugly, and is hard to clean leaves and sticks out of. Three is two additional piles of the same kind of rocks in different places in the property that we have simply left lying because we don’t know what else to do with them.

My idea was to build a wall and fill it with rocks, and put Kellen’s pretty rocks on top. It would be a prettier way to store them and a way to consolidate all our rocks and to keep the driveway rocks out of the mud and more compact.

I got the idea to put a container there with something growing. It addressed one more problem: we need to move some roses out of the way of where we eventually want to have a path. I dug up one rose and put it into the pot and added it to the pile of rocks. I wish I had thought of it earlier and thus set the rose pot lower, but…too late now.

Kellen’s rocks were even more back breaking work, because they were filled with five years’ worth of dust and spiders and dead leaves. I cleaned all of them, then put them into the pile. I assumed they would fill to the top of the bricks and they did not. Well, they still look nice.

There were unbroken geodes, broken geodes, quartz and so many kinds I cannot identify. Just gorgeous gorgeous rocks.

The next step is to spread small gravel across the muddy space left here. We have lots of that kind of rock too, in the back, and will be needing a place to put it once we begin rebuilding the raised garden beds.