All through my last post I talked about "blue salvia". There is a blue salvia, but what I meant to say was that the blue flowers in my beds are "blue sage" - very similar but very different, too. So, I stand corrected (by myself).
I ran into this lady from California at the Blue Moon Gardens in Edom, Texas, yesterday and she was carrying around a leaf of this little plant she called "silver dichondra". I googled a picture of the 'silver' to show you but she was wantin' the dark green color - She wanted to cover her yard with it...
I told this lady that this was just plain ole kidneyweed (some call it dollarweed, but dollarweed is completely circular) and that if she wanted some all she had to do was come over to my house and dig all she wanted out of my yard under the shade trees. She said in California, people put this stuff in their yards and it makes a nice lawn - never have to mow it. Well, I guess here in Texas we have centipede, saint augustine and bermuda and we like to see a nice "stand" on our grass. 'Course we have lots of hot summer sun here in Texas, so we don't usually have alot of cool, shady, damp spots in our yards. She ain't from around here, for shore! Hope she's not plannin' on having a kidneyweed yard here in Texas!
In other news, I went to the "SPRING FLING" at My Little Corner in Noonday, Texas, on Saturday. It was fun. I was actually pressed for time, cuz we were having my sweet dad's 75th Birthday get-together-charcoaled hamburgers -n- birthday cake - with the fam - minus one grandson, SO I didn't get to shop like I wanted. I did get a few pictures for you, tho, and highlight of my trip over there was meeting a fellow blogger - Elaine from Soggy Bottom Flats! also Margo from Margo's Junkin' Journal was manning the cash register - she has a booth over there doncha know.
Margo has become a sweet friend of mine that I don't get to see enough - she's going 90 MPH all the time with her hair on fire. Her booth is well-stocked at all times - if you've not been over there, YOU NEED TO GO! I don't know where Margo gets her energy! We meet up at our local favorite Mexican Food restaurant from time to time to catch up! Here's a shot of Margo and Bill,one of the owners - he's real nice!
You really should see this place - might take you a couple of days. There are so many different vendors and lots of tastes and styles of antiques, vintage items, and junk - good junk, mind you - repurposed industrial junk decor is the "newest thing" in junk, so I hear.
This is a lovely lady from around Canton, Texas, way - meet Elaine, from Soggy Bottom Flats Quilting & Stitching. You should go visit her blog - she quilts beautifully and she has a gob of blogging friends that do, too!
Of course she was drawn to all the quilting stuff right off! Here she is again checking out some squares amidst some of the ever-so-cool stuff for sale!!! Happy hunting Elaine! It was SO nice to meet you!!!
You see that old vintage Coke cooler? Well, I WAS TOO LATE. I wanted it bad, but it was done got. Dang.
Well, there you have it folks. My trip to Our Little Corner. I did not spend any $$$ which was good, cuz my husband keeps tellin' me that I don't need any more junk. Can you believe that? But I DID get to meet Elaine, a bloggy friend, and I got to see my friend Margo again. Margo, I got a hankerin' for some enchiladas, girl!
