Shadow box full of treasure and our telephone pole

Up close pictures of one of our shadow boxes and our telephone pole. I really like the old childs belt buckle in the upper left corner of the shadow box.

Some fun yard and garden art in our Arizona home

 

Yard art in our yard and garden.

These are a few  things we find fun and exciting to look at in ouor yard and gardens. Remember that when you are out in your yard or garden there should be more then just plant life, you should have things that mke you happy and that are interesting to look at; items that have personal stories behind them are extra cool!

Here you see two shawdow boxes on the wall filled withmisc. items we have found on numerous desert off road and hiking adventures throughout Arizona and Califronia. There are a couple wood barrel bands (straps), a telephone pole that went to an old farm house tha has since been torn down,home made hummingbird feeders made from metal we find, misc. glass and bottles, old school items, a miners head lamp with battery pack, barbed wire, old gas can and alot more...

Don't forget about the hummingbirds!!!

Can't forget about those beautiful hummingbirds that  need a nice sugary drink right now more than ever.

With the temps hitting 115 and above, it's a nice thing to add a hummingbird feeder to your yard or garden. In our yard we must have about 10 hummingbird feeders. Most of are feeders are feeders we have made ourselves, (and will be for sale sometime in the near future!), that are old bottles we have found in the middle of the Arizona desert in our camping and off road adventures.

These feeders seem to attract so many hummingbirds that you'll always keep them filled as to not dissapoint all the hummingbirds coming to your yard :) Plus they eat some bugs and insects that you don't want in your garden!

By the way, please remember NOT to add any red food coloring to your hummingbird juice! The dye is very harmful to these awesome birds. Trust me, the hummingbirds will find our feeder even if it's not red :)

I like to add a few drops of orange extract for a little flavor kick. It seems to be a hit!