Hey guys, it's Friday Round Up! Time to pull together some of the best things I saw online this week.
- Favorite new-to-me blog: Paper Garden Workshop. Such a fun site to look at! This site, formerly LisaOrgler.com, is hosted by a professional garden designer who teaches landscape design at Iowa State University. When you go to her site, you're presented with absolutely wonderful hand-drawn garden designs and illustrations. Her style is very whimsical yet realistic (is that a thing?), and it reminds me so much of my younger days when I was hot into scrapbooking and hand-drawn lettering and decorative elements for my scrapbooks. Even more important than her great visual presentation, she gives step by step instructions and advice for how to create landscape and garden designs. Makes me wish I could sign up for one of her classes at ISU! I spent a solid three hours one night this week just going back to the beginning of her blog and reading every post in order that they were published. I didn't finish by any means, but had a lot of fun!
- I enjoyed reading this short article... I'm not an entrepreneur, but in my mind, these three tips apply to anything we choose to do in life, don't they?
- For the last several weeks, lots of garden bloggers have been writing about their visit to the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN for the annual Garden Blogger's Fling. I've been enjoying reading and looking at all of the great gardens that they visited. And I'm excited because I'm currently in St. Paul visiting our son and daughter in law, and we're going to use the Fling's itinerary to check out some local garden spots this weekend!
- Over at the Savvy Southern Style blog, we learned about a pretty cool new product for transforming your walls. This kind of project looks intriguing, and I might just look into it further to see if there's a place here at our home where it might fit.
Here's what I've been up to around Harmony Hills Home and Garden this week:
- Sunday morning inspiration - a gentle reminder to myself, more than anything.
- I took a look around the neighborhood and came up with a list of the 10 Best Perennials for Late Summer. What are your favorite plants for this time of year?
- I'm going crazy trying to decide what to do with the south side yard... wanna take a peek and help me choose an arbor?
- I'm traveling right now, so didn't have a chance to put together a Thursday home decor post... back at it next week!
Not a "good news" story by any means... On Saturday night our neighbors in Ellicott City, MD experienced an incredibly devastating flash flood. Our local area received 6.5" of rain in a 2-hour time frame, (during one 5-minute period, one part of our community got 1" of rain!). Here at our house, we suffered only flooded window sills due to out of shape rain gutters pouring water down the exterior walls of our house. But 4 miles to our west in Ellicott City, they had massive flash-floods which killed two people and caused millions of dollars of damage to the historic downtown shopping area. Ellicott City is an historic district renowned for small businesses serving the local community with antiques, restaurants, and arts offerings. Here at Harmony Hills we have a strong connection to Ellicott City. It's only about 4 miles away, and we are directly connected via an old, old highway (now just a major street in Baltimore) that was a major shipping and travel route from Baltimore to the west in the 1800's. In the early part of the 20th century, our west Baltimore neighborhood, called Ten Hills, used to be connected to Ellicott City via a trolley line which ran in and out of Baltimore carrying the first suburbanites from Ellicott City, Catonsville, and Ten Hills into downtown each morning and home again each evening. This part of suburban Baltimore is tightly knit and intimately connected. It's going to be a long, hard recovery for our neighbors. If you'd like to contribute to the recovery effort, you can visit this website to find out how.
What's been happening in your neck of the woods? Stop by the comments section to say hello!
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