Apparently while isolating at home, playing with flowers, refining my sourdough bread skills (which is making all my neighbors happy as I can’t eat all the bread I bake), and looking for a full-time remote writing job I leveled up!!!
I’m now a Rooftop room dweller!!!
And to celebrate I thought I’d share some of the flowers in my yard and from a dahlia farm down the road.
Top to bottom:
Pink dahlias in my yard
Orange marigold – my yard
White dahlia – the farm
Echinacea bud – my yard
Zinnia bouquet – the farm
Enjoy the pretty flowers all you wonderful beanies!!!!!
Those are lovely, and also sourdough! I still have mine going from our lockdown in March/April, which for me is quite an achievement. Do you have a favourite recipe? I’m looking for new things to try with it (and especially with the discard).
That last photo was of a bouquet they created and was at there for people to buy. I was quite smitten by that green zinnia but didn’t have any cash on me and so I couldn’t take it home. However when I saw the final pic on my computer I was thrilled!!!!!!
I may go back there this morning….
These are mostly dahlias that stay in the ground all winter. The ones that I dug up, divided and replanted are a little slower.
Do your dahlias have buds yet?
stpauligurl
July 31, 2020 at 1:17 PM
Apparently while isolating at home, playing with flowers, refining my sourdough bread skills (which is making all my neighbors happy as I can’t eat all the bread I bake), and looking for a full-time remote writing job I leveled up!!!
I’m now a Rooftop room dweller!!!
And to celebrate I thought I’d share some of the flowers in my yard and from a dahlia farm down the road.
Top to bottom:
Pink dahlias in my yard
Orange marigold – my yard
White dahlia – the farm
Echinacea bud – my yard
Zinnia bouquet – the farm
Enjoy the pretty flowers all you wonderful beanies!!!!!
WishfulToki
July 31, 2020 at 1:24 PM
Congrats!! You can have a rooftop garden now. 😀
pickleddragon
July 31, 2020 at 9:54 PM
HAHAHA I was thinking the same!
korfan
July 31, 2020 at 1:27 PM
Congratulations!
Zora
July 31, 2020 at 1:29 PM
Congratulations!
Thanks for sharing these lovely photos. The dahlias are beautiful!
Junie Bug
July 31, 2020 at 1:51 PM
Congrats!! The flowers are gorgeous 😍
beffels
July 31, 2020 at 3:45 PM
Those are lovely, and also sourdough! I still have mine going from our lockdown in March/April, which for me is quite an achievement. Do you have a favourite recipe? I’m looking for new things to try with it (and especially with the discard).
stpauligurl
July 31, 2020 at 4:47 PM
I looked at the King Arthur Flour website https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/ and the best recipe that I’ve found is this one: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/naturally-leavened-sourdough-bread-recipe
I make enough to get 2 cups of starter then put the rest in the fridge until I want to make some more.
This recipe is great. I can start it around 7 in the morning and the two good sized loaves are out of the oven around 2.
beffels
July 31, 2020 at 10:10 PM
I’ll check it out! I’ve been using this one – https://www.homegrown-kitchen.co.nz/2020/03/25/homemade-no-knead-bread/ – which has the advantage of being extremely easy but has a very long rise and I often forget 😅
stpauligurl
August 1, 2020 at 6:42 PM
That looks good. Thanks for the link @beffels!
pickleddragon
July 31, 2020 at 9:53 PM
That last photo!!! Uff.
stpauligurl
August 1, 2020 at 5:45 AM
That last photo was of a bouquet they created and was at there for people to buy. I was quite smitten by that green zinnia but didn’t have any cash on me and so I couldn’t take it home. However when I saw the final pic on my computer I was thrilled!!!!!!
I may go back there this morning….
pickleddragon
August 1, 2020 at 7:00 AM
That is a good idea!! It’s a great photo, so you did kinda bring it home 🙂
Eazal
July 31, 2020 at 11:10 PM
Congrats!!!
And thanks for all these beautiful flowers.
bbstl 🧹
August 1, 2020 at 7:45 AM
Congratulations and welcome to the rooftops! Enjoy the view 😁
And thanks very much for the beautiful flowers.
mugyuljoie is preciousss
August 1, 2020 at 10:24 AM
Yay!!! And you do have dahlias in bloom. I’m still waiting for mine…
stpauligurl
August 1, 2020 at 6:43 PM
These are mostly dahlias that stay in the ground all winter. The ones that I dug up, divided and replanted are a little slower.
Do your dahlias have buds yet?
mugyuljoie is preciousss
August 1, 2020 at 10:24 PM
One does, the other don’t. Mine stay in the ground all winter too.
stpauligurl
August 2, 2020 at 1:02 PM
It’s the same here. I have some that are barely coming up and others in full bloom.
Kudo Ran
August 2, 2020 at 3:11 AM
congratulations 😀 and thank you for sharing those gorgeous flowers <3