Send the kids out of the room...

Those white balls are the egg/seed/spore things for this mushroom! 

 This obscene looking thing is a Stinkhorn Mushroom. I looked it up on the internet, after Renee suggested it was the Stinkhorn. Pea also indicated it might be a fungus, and you girls got it. It is disgusting looking. On the internet it says it smells badly. I don't know. I am not caring to sniff it. I am not getting that close to it. LOOK at this thing. Sheesh! It's rated PG-17!!
For those of you that want me to open one of those white egg sacks-forget it. The internet says it is filled with layers of slime.
I. Kid. You. Not.
ANYWAYS.......here are some allium, let's change the subject.

First year for berries on my Viburnum opulus! Bring on the fabulous song birds! Whoo-hoo!!

I am running out of room

I have a question.
Where do you store your photos? Do you load them onto your computer and upload them?
Do you upload them to a hosting site?
Picasa is telling me I need to pay for more space, which I will likely do, but is that best way?
So, tell me, what do you do??

Pics on a warm day

Vietnamese Spring Rolls 

As a child, I would hide from the world under the neighbors' front porch. Lily of the Valley grew like a weed under that porch. The smell of the delicate little bell flower can take me right back to Donny Osmond and Charleston Chew candy bars. 

                                                                            Garlic chives. Very spicy!

busy bee on mountain bluet (Centaurea montana)

Faithful garden pal and defender from intruders of all sorts. Discovered large lumps on her, Friday. Biopsy due back Tuesday. Vet thinks lymphoma, but this dog does not behave as though she has cancer. Still eating, running and looking magnificent for 9 years old. 

So many things are, well, not going the way we'd like them to go.