When you get a message from the hotel valet parking guy, you kinda know it's not going to be good. Especially when they say the manager wants to speak personally with you. "We tried to move your car but it shakes and says 'reduced engine performance', maybe bad gas?"
So it looks like I get to spend some extra time in Dallas, when I was sooo looking forward to making my way home. Yes, I drove. I was visiting old friends along the way.
Garden Blogger's Bloom Day will have to be about what's blooming in OPG. In case you haven't heard that term before, that's "Other People's Gardens".
Fresh from all the fascinating garden tours during the Garden Writers Association 2010 Symposium. The gardens at this time of year were less about blooms and more about foliage, hardscape, structures, garden art and whimsy. But here's a few flowers...
Okra flower with ants at the Stonewall Jackson Elementary School Garden where every child has a plant of his or her own! The Garden Buzz
Yellow water lilies in the fountain at the Rister-Armstrong residence where they were not only gracious enough to let us tromp through their unique, charming, lovely, (I could go on and on) garden, but their equally adorable, stylish, beautiful (I could go on and on) home, carriage house and pavilion. The Garden Buzz
It's very early as I post this, gotta be ready to call the dealership about my little red rover. I hope my sad story falls upon sympathetic Texas ears. Texas has been great, but for now, I wanna go home.
Special thanks to Carol of Maydreams Gardens for hosting GBBD, yet again. Hey Carol, I didn't realize who you were when I met you the other day! Well, I am a "first-timer"...
