Doug's Project 365

Many of the landscaping choices made by the previous owners of our house are not choices we would have made.  But there is one planting with which we wholeheartedly agree.

I’ve always liked hydrangea, and these are particularly nice specimens.

The remains of a healthy dinner.

We planted this perennial this year.  I already forget what it’s called. 

The camera doesn’t do justice to its full blue/indigo brilliance,

I hereby declare that my experiment in non-daily photo blogging is a failure: I’m not taking as many pictures as I should, I’m not taking pictures of things I should be taking them of, and I’m clearly not posting those few pictures I do take.

So, on summer solstice, this longest day of the year and the official start of summer, I am restarting my Project 365: a picture a day for an entire year.

Today’s picture is Lis and her niece Leah sitting down to a homemade pizza dinner.  We tried to grill it, but the grill had run out of propane.

We’re having the bathroom bump-out off the back of our house shored up to repair some rot damage and bring the structure up to snuff.

This is not an exciting project, but beats having the bathroom fall off the back of the house!

My mother’s grandfather owned a coal company in Newton and Needham.  The town of Needham has restored the sign on the side of the historical office of that company, uncovered when the building next door was demolished.  I visited this site with my parents today.

The Charles river is still in flood stage from last month’s heavy rains.

A sure sign of spring in New England.

If only the town would publish schedules so we could sweep the sand off our driveways into the street!

This bowl contains two chicken eggs, the largest & smallest from the dozen we picked up recently from our meat CSA.

They probably average out to normal-sized eggs.

In Southboro, we saw wild turkeys all the time.  This is the first one I’ve seen in Newton; right along Rte 16, no less.