Winter snow

Mid December - mild winter starts - still green

Late fall

Raking Leaves done

Calm before the storm

Autumn color

A touch of Autumn

Japanese Maple tree in front

New Addition - Lily

September Garden

September at my garden

Autumn color

Monet Garden (w/ Japanese subtitle)

Birds in the yard

Lily bed - expansion

Came to drink some water...

New addition - front pots and side garden

It's a hot pepper!

It turns out this pepper is "hot" pepper - now turning into red.

Sunday project - Bird bath

Put up a bird bath behind the bench.

New addition to the front

Korean azalea (pink purple flower in spring) and mom in blue pottery pots.

What your name?

Leaves dropped to the yard due to a strong gusty wind. Don't know a name for this tree but usually in spring it has white small petal flowers but never saw it bears a little cherry like berry fruits. Seem like a very common tree around here, so better check it name. A little surprise of the day!

10 baby peppers 14+flowers - counting.

Aug 6: My neighbor told me that this is "hot pepper." Was wondering why it kind of staying in that smaller round shape - his turned red and he had a bite, and found out it's really "hot." So I got a kind warning.

Alstroemeria cultivar / Peruvian Lily

This is not from my garden. Just want to post it here as we love this flower and just found out what it is called.

Love this flower, and am using its picture on the background of the title section here.

Alstroemeria ( /ˌælstrɨˈmɪəriə/; syn. Alstremeria),^[1] commonly called the Peruvian Lilyor Lily of the Incas, is a South American genus of about 120 species of flowering plants. Almost all of the species are restricted to one of two distinct centers of diversity, one in central Chile, the other in eastern Brazil. Species of Alstroemeria from Chile are winter-growing plants while those of Brazil are summer-growing. All are long-lived perennials except A. (Taltalia) graminea, a diminutive annual from the Atacama Desert of Chile.

source: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstroemeria

One more lily opened up. This is the last one for the season.

More lily pics