Category: Home and Garden

Enjoy some of my favorite shots from around Meridian Idaho, Fall 2012.  All taken with my iPhone 4S, with an Instagram twist.  Find me on Instagram at @angelabdesign.

Our open skies out west are highly coveted, people!  Let’s take some time to truly enjoy them 🙂

Idaho’s mix of fall trees, clear blue open skies, puffy white clouds, and sun ray streaks…. what a sight to behold.

So let’s transition to motorcycles now.  It’s starting early for our daughter.  Motorcycle visitors.  Lots of little boys in our neighborhood.

I love the tree-transition time.  This thing looks a little confused.

These are my neighbor’s purple mums.  So perfect and pretty.

This is our tree – an Emerald Queen Maple, I think.  Love the yellow!

A closeup shot of the bark of our river birch tree.  See the hornet in there?

Another beautiful tree in our neighborhood.

A shot of the Boise foothills from Ten Mile Road.

I adore sun rays through big puffy clouds in a bright blue sky.

BIG SKY.

Can you tell I like clouds?

And the last one… taken while I was driving down Ten Mile Road.  I like that I caught the lavender and ornamental grass that Franz Witte planted.  I remember watching their landscapers plant them as I drove by…they did such a great job.

This is the second year we’ve brought our kids to my parent’s place to help harvest their vegetable garden.

A tradition has begun.

It just feels so amazing to pick the veggies off the vine yourself.  So satisfying to dig up your own potatoes.  When you cook food that you’ve grown or harvested yourself, you just enjoy it more.  And I love my kids learning about where food really comes from.

Here’s the view of Mom and Dad’s garden.  Dad is the one who does most the maintenance.  He loves it.  He gets all the plants from D&B Supply and Lowe’s.

Mom and Dad’s place in Twin Falls is pretty unique.  Come on, where else have you seen an arch of wagon wheels?

I think it’s pretty dang cool.  Mom thinks it’s too old fashioned, but I really appreciate it, especially since I don’t see much uniqueness in my suburbia home.

Old concrete fencing. Rustic geometry.

My boy loved pulling these onions out of the ground.  We had to beg him to stop.

Chloe’s favorite: the Roma tomatoes.  Sliced and with salt and pepper – she just chows them up.  Not sure of their exact variety, but they taste like they are infused with sugar.  So good.

I just love this man so much.  And seeing my husband in this hat just makes me smile.

Mom and Chloe digging through the cucumbers.

Dad teaching my boy how to harvest spuds.  My favorite part.  I am an Idaho girl, after all.

Chandler would dig them up, and Chloe would jump right in to grab them.

Here’s our veggie bounty loot we got to take home with us.  Thanks, Mom and Dad!

Enjoy some of my favorite shots from around Meridian Idaho, Summer 2012.  All taken with my iPhone 4S, with an Instagram twist.  Find me on Instagram at @angelabdesign.

Bees just love my salvias.  Can’t believe this guy didn’t give me sting – I was super close.

Summer cupcakes made by my sweet neighbor Kelli.  Every year she throws a Welcome Summer party for all the kids in the ‘hood.

Soldiers at the Independence Day parade in Boise.  Moving.

My boy in his fedora with a thrifted cane and suit jacket.  And British accent.  I am relishing the last bit of his creative play, before teenager-itis claims him.

Downtown Meridian Idaho. Charming.

Groundcover in my front yard.  Wish I knew what it was… So cool looking and maintenance-free.

Harvest dust on a field off Ten Mile Road in Meridian.

Daylilies in my backyard.  I LOVE the shades of peach with the bright center.  These daylilies bloomed for most of the summer.

Preserving her modesty.  This is our cat Jasmine, the most affectionate and lovey animal we have ever had.

My son graduated from the Hunter’s Ed program this summer.  Can’t wait for him to go hunting with my Dad.  Memories to make!

White hardy hydrangeas and maroon daylilies.  These hydrangeas are in the full sun, folks!

This is a Blaze climbing rose in our front yard.  One of my favorites.  It just goes crazy in the full sun.

You pretty Blaze, you.

Summer wouldn’t be summer without a fresh peach daquiri.

Sunrise on the first day of school.  Alleluia!

Remember my favorite white-blooming viburnum from Spring 2012 in Meridian?  Well, those white blooms turn into sweet little red berry thingies.  I wonder if the birds like these things…seems like they would.

Most of our summer was a smokey one, with all the wildfires around Idaho.  This is a view of a windfarm with a smoke blanket backdrop, seen from the freeway on the drive from Meridian to my folks in Twin Falls.

Hydrangea blooms turning from white to pink at summer’s end.  Beautiful.

Anyone home?  This praying mantis gave us girls quite the scare one morning.  Creeper wouldn’t move away from this garage door, either.  Jasmine kitty played with her for awhile, then we put her on the hydrangea out back.

I got a firepit from my husband and parents for my birthday.  A super easy kit from Lowe’s.  Love it.  Cheers!

Enjoy some of my favorite shots from around Meridian Idaho, Spring 2012.  All taken with my iPhone 4S, with an Instagram twist.  Find me on Instagram @angelabdesign.

View off of Ten Mile Road.

Red rose in my backyard, the first of the season, as the snowball bush petals fall.

Clematis gone crazy with blooms, in my backyard.

Hard to believe these purple and green leaves will turn completely yellow in the next couple weeks.

My neighbor’s snowball bush.  It hangs over my side of the fence, but I don’t mind at all 🙂

Beautiful blue sky littered with clouds while shopping at Kohl’s.

My favorite flower, the tulip.  I only have a fleeting few in my backyard.  I LOVE this shade of purple.

Underwater Idaho sky, my backyard view.

Hosta, no filter, in my backyard.  They love the morning sun and afternoon shade.

The neighbor boys chasing my girl in the ‘hood.

Delicate anemone blooms.  I got this perennial from D&B Supply, and it’s one of my little faves.

Cloudburst shot, taken in my neighborhood.

Bleeding hearts in my backyard.  An old-fashioned favorite.

Neighbor boy’s bunny on the loose.  Fast little bugger.

Quince bush with bright red orange blooms.  I have three of these in my front yard.

One of my backyard favorites – viburnum.  You sweet little white blooms, you.  I wish I had planted six or seven of these instead of just one.  Look at all those different shades of green with that bright white – just lovely.

I don’t know what these hardy little cabbage-like things are, but they’re cool looking.  They creep all over in my front yard beds.

This old-fashioned country yellow rambling rose cascades in my backyard. I got it on clearance at Fred Meyer for $3.  Oh yeah.

Jacob’s Ladder, a perennial from D&B Supply.  I cut it to the ground in the Fall and it comes back like this.  Amazing.