Unearthed walkway.
September 3, 2015 7:00 am
My dear wife Karen got out front of the Little Bitty and went to work.
She loves her gardening.
Unearthed walkway.
And thus our yard in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood looks better now than it did last week.
First off, she chopped away the grass that had overgrown our stone walk that juts off the driveway.
The yellow and the white.
And then my dear wife thinned out the hourglass garden, better to see the brilliance of the blooms of the two roses of our half-dozen that have decided to kick out some late summer flowers.
That would be the lovely yellow and brilliant white.
Both are small blooms. But I adore them still.
Do you have grass that invades your pathways, and if so, how often do you have to hack it back? Do you think Cherry Cherry looks strong in the top photo as she’s rounding out her first season? Do you prefer the yellow or white rose bush?
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Does she let you help? My mother wouldn’t let my dad near the garden after he mowed down a couple of dormant peonies thinking they were weeds.
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By cat9984 on October 19, 2015 at 5:58 am
I’ve mowed some plants I was supposed to dodge as well, Cat. I hate that. And still my dear wife Karen lets me help in the gardens sometimes. Usually at the beginning of the season. 🙂 Thanks for pitching in here, my Midwest friend.
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By markbialczak on October 19, 2015 at 8:17 am
Oh the power of grass cracking through the lovely paths we create. 🙂 I admire it’s perseverance!
I prefer all the flowers you and DWK grow!
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By Chatter Master on September 5, 2015 at 10:23 am
Thank you, MBC. Karen can grow some great and pretty creatures. 🙂
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By markbialczak on September 5, 2015 at 10:29 am
cherry cherry looks very much at home. Would Karen like to come over and lend a hand at the allotment 🙂
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By lundygirl on September 4, 2015 at 2:49 pm
She would if she could. You know that, Rachel! ❤
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By markbialczak on September 4, 2015 at 3:50 pm
I know! It’s actually not too weed infested and we are enjoying a harvest of beans, onions and potatoes. I haven’t blogged in ages but will try to post this week. May go back to Could do worse. what do you think?
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By lundygirl on September 5, 2015 at 9:19 am
I think you had a really good thing going and then you changed it and people may not have followed you over to the new place out of confusion or WordPress malaise or many other factors of life. Your call, Rachel. I’m finally cued in on the Patch, though. 😉
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By markbialczak on September 5, 2015 at 10:06 am
Beautiful work! Karen must have at least one green thumb! 🙂
Yellow roses are my favorites with white roses coming in second. I prefer them over red roses any day. 🙂
Cherry Cherry is beautiful! 🙂
One thing I always miss after summer has gone is my veggie garden and all the flowers! (and the insects that buzz and flit about the flowers!)
HUGS!!! 🙂
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By doesitevenmatter3 on September 4, 2015 at 1:46 am
I’m glad to hear you have veggies and flowers to make you happy, Carolyn! HUGS. 🙂
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By markbialczak on September 4, 2015 at 1:48 pm
Yellow roses 🌹🌹🌹
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By Chess on September 3, 2015 at 9:35 pm
I think they are lovely, Chess! I’m glad you do as well. ❤
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By markbialczak on September 4, 2015 at 1:41 pm
Love the yellow rose. Gardening…so much harder on the knees than it used to be. ☺
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By vanbytheriver on September 3, 2015 at 7:28 pm
I agree, Van. My poor dear wife Karen is very achy afterward! 😦
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By markbialczak on September 4, 2015 at 1:40 pm
I had mowing the lawn, but the bamboo is my new mortal enemy!!!
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By Austin on September 3, 2015 at 7:24 pm
That bamboo is unbelievable, Austin. Burn it, burn it, burn it. A chant is starting from your friends.
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By markbialczak on September 4, 2015 at 1:39 pm
it all looks really pretty, mark, and cherry cherry looks happy in her spot. our yards need little touchups and makeovers every so often just as we do )
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By ksbeth on September 3, 2015 at 6:06 pm
Good point, Beth. My yard looks better than I do, perhaps? 🙂
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By markbialczak on September 4, 2015 at 1:36 pm
We all need to do the same for ourselves every so often )
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By ksbeth on September 4, 2015 at 4:42 pm
Unfortunately, I just don’t have my own sidewalk. Or garden, except for my window herb garden, bro Mark. I do however, have a colony of pet roaches I’m selling. You can buy one or a family, and I have them named. Just give me a hint about the first initial, and how many you want.
Oh, sorry, I shouldn’t be advertising on your page. Karen has a green thumb apparently, because the garden looks so pretty. I hope some day we will have a flower garden here. One can always hope.
And speaking of hope, I’m about to post my last blog before my move tomorrow. Got some really great news today — not about the move, but a thorn has been removed from my, well, it’s just been removed.
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By Kentucky Angel on September 3, 2015 at 2:48 pm
Oh, boy, sis Angie. You got some rough stuff going on.
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 4:16 pm
My sidewalk is a mess and I want to clean it up before snow flies. But I’ve only seen it done with a special tool, that I do not have
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By Pleasant Street on September 3, 2015 at 2:22 pm
Oh, the edger. Those are a real exhausting tool, for sure, Rose.
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 4:16 pm
Too bad that’s for lawn work and not a fun sexy toy. Haha
Well I have to investigate how I can clean that up without one of those doo-hickeys because it’s taking over.
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By Pleasant Street on September 3, 2015 at 4:20 pm
Wow, Rose. 🙂 Good for you. And keep your lawn clean, too. 🙂
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 4:32 pm
good clean fun
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By Pleasant Street on September 3, 2015 at 5:09 pm
It looks like a gorgeous little haven, enjoy 🙂
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By The Indecisive Eejit on September 3, 2015 at 2:09 pm
Yes. Yes, we will, TIE.
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 4:15 pm
Cherry Cherry is definitely looking lively. Great job Karen!
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By Marissa Bergen on September 3, 2015 at 1:44 pm
I’ll make sure she hears that, Marissa. 🙂 Thank you.
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 4:14 pm
Looking good Terp! Well…we have sod here! Sand, lots of sand. I love any color roses. Mom brings a bunch over every week from her extensive rose garden for me! Gatorette
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By Cheryl "Cheffie Cooks" Wiser on September 3, 2015 at 1:29 pm
Your mom is a peach, Gatorette! ❤
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 4:14 pm
Thank you she is a very special lady to our family Terp! Gatorette
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By Cheryl "Cheffie Cooks" Wiser on September 3, 2015 at 6:08 pm
The garden looks very pretty. Good job you two did in keeping it healthy!
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By mewhoami on September 3, 2015 at 12:36 pm
Thanks, Me Who. We enjoy our little piece of ground. 🙂
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 4:11 pm
The yard is beautiful, Mark. Saki looks great. Glad to see the roses decided to show. September is the month of the rose shows.
On a completely separate note, I read an article on line about Syracuse being one of the top ten cities in the US for triathlons. Do they run through or near your neighborhood like the fun run you posted about earlier this year?
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By Fannie Cranium on September 3, 2015 at 12:11 pm
The only race through my neighborhood is the half-marathon that actually crosses my block in the winter, Tracy. I live several miles from any water that would be used for that portion of the triathlon, so I don’t think any of those go by the Little Bitty. 😦
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 4:10 pm
That’s too bad. That would be fun to see.
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By Fannie Cranium on September 3, 2015 at 4:36 pm
Yes, it sure would, Tracy.
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By markbialczak on September 4, 2015 at 1:35 pm
In awe of your neat garden. Any flower is a good flower I say given that we have decided that weeds are good and must be nurtured. 🙂
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By tjparis on September 3, 2015 at 9:19 am
Good for you nurturing your weeds, kind sir! We do encourage growth for our milk weed in the butterfly garden. 🙂
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 9:38 am
SAKI! Wonderful to see you in your green splendor thriving at the Little Bitty under the caring attention of Mark and Karen. Your yard looks very inviting Mark. I prefer the yellow rose for some reason. When I was living on property that required upkeep, the grass did grow over the pathways. Our paths were about double the width of yours so I just left it be – it gives a old and settled look to the walkway. Obviously if your walkways are narrower you have to cut the grass back. Looking good Mark and Karen.
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By Paul on September 3, 2015 at 8:34 am
Thanks, Paul. Karen does a great job around stuff, and I plant and mow. Saki says hello, Uncle from up north. 🙂
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 8:55 am
The yellow is especially pretty! As you mentioned in a prior post, I wonder why they’re just now finally blooming?!? I dunno when your frost date is, but maybe they’ll bloom through to then! It really must have been a strange winter up there! Still nice to see them tho 🙂
Our errant grass is what comes up in cracks and crevices in the concrete and asphalt. Nature makes its way!
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By joey on September 3, 2015 at 8:28 am
This cover-up comes from the sides and right over, Joey!
Our first frost can be by October. No kidding! We do have strange winters, always.
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 8:54 am
Nicely done. It looks very tidy. The Cherry-Cherry looks good. It looks like a Weeping Cherry – is that right? I have tried to grow a Weeping Cherry – never had much success. I love the yellow rose. Very pretty.
Can Karen come to my house and help me please? Tell her to bring a machete, it is a jungle. Our Philodendron in the front garden is over 6 feet tall, the asparagus fern has taken over and the plumbago is completely out of control. As far as the grass creeping onto the path, it hasn’t been much of an issue this year as it is pretty much dead – a brown lawn is a responsible lawn and a dead lawn, therefore it does not grow.
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By SD Gates on September 3, 2015 at 8:16 am
If we lived in the same neighborhood, we’d help and then hang out, SD. She’d be good with a machete, taking out frustrations about a dead lawn. Oy.
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 8:26 am
That would be so much fun. I could come over to your guys house and look at your beautiful tidy garden and then we could go back to my house and look at the jungle and hack stuff down with our machetes, (you have to say it like they say on that film “Machete”). Tee-hee!!!!
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By SD Gates on September 3, 2015 at 9:16 am
I would love saying it like that ornery dude, SD!
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By markbialczak on September 3, 2015 at 9:37 am