I think I've mentioned before, maybe a hundred times, that I love hydrangeas.  There are all kinds of varieties and different colors. 

 My favorite is blue - but you have to keep the soil at a special acidic ph level to get this color.  Although I treated my flowers this year very carefully with the right stuff, I think I have discovered why they never did turn blue.  I have my hose hooked up to the house, instead of an outside water pump. We have well water, which has to be treated with water softener so that the bathtub, sink, and toilet don't turn all orange from a calcium build up.  I think that this affected my ability to get the soil

condition right for the color blue. 

So, instead of blue, I got a lot of pink.  But that's o.k.  their still beautiful.

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I couldn't help but make it a "photo moment" when I picked them. 

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I placed some in a bucket filled with water and let them float in it.  Then I arranged some around

the bucket.

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I decided to put a basket of freshly picked corn from our garden on the same table.  When I asked

Rachel what she thought of my photo lay-out, she thought it wouldn't be complete with out her kittie

included.

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Well, if the kittie should be in it, then surely the dog, and my children playing in the background should be, too.

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I didn't get blue, but I enjoyed them just the same.  And now during the upcoming long winter, I can

still enjoy them through my pictures.

Join Mary for a lot of great show and tells....