Day 476: Kentucky vacation

A bright sunny day beckoned us outside and though it was cooler than usual for late April in Kentucky, it was perfect for a trip to the Starview Nursery.  I have been starving for the luscious colors and textures of gazania, begonias, and dahlias.  A beautifully tended nursery, we wandered for a couple hours through greenhouses filled with neat rows of brilliantly colored flowers.  I wished that we had not come in the Prius, because I could have filled a van with hostas and perennials.

While Nancy rested, my brother, Steve and I walked the neighborhood and looked for the farm with the long horn cattle and peacocks.  The cattle were not to be found, but the peacocks were resting in a barn with a dozen burros nearby.  One curious little brown burro came over to the fence and serenaded us.

Then we tackled the weeding in one of Nancy's lily beds.  An especially stubborn weed with webs of roots was strangling her lilies.  It took three of us over an hour to weed one little bed because the weed had to be dug, chopped and shaken.

Thunder Over Louisville marks the opening two weeks of events leading up to the Kentucky Derby. An air show today was followed by spectacular fireworks off the bridges.  

My brother-in-law is in Pittsburgh with his dad and sister.  She is in ICU waiting for a double lung transplant because a rare disease destroyed her lungs.   She is number one on the list, but since she is a very small woman, she knows that for her to live, a teen or child must die.  She has been struggling with that realization for months, but now, it appears that the new lungs may come too late because she is in very serious condition.

A scene near my sister's house

A neighbor's peacocks