A walk up the ally......

Tristen has been trying to learn to ride his bike. Its sort of difficult to do that in the back garden. He had a new tricycle last winter but it was too tough for him to learn on. So, as we still had an old trike that was Lydia's he learned with that. I took him up the ally one day and he had fun with that. So yesterday I took him again. Here are some pictures........I took them while he was riding back and forth.

He loves riding out there where he can get it going and feel he is going somewhere. Hard to do in the garden.
This was taken across the ally from me............we called it London Pride not sure what the real name is?

More pictures of the old horse barn at the other end of the ally


One home down there had lovely lilac and it smells divine.


The ally is usually full sun and so the Iris are blooming, where as in my garden they are still in bud.


I love looking at the flower close up, the details are wonderful. The center of a flower has directions for the bee's to get to the pollen. In the case of the Iris its plain enough, a fuzzy landing strip. On this next flower the stamens are so bright they cant be missed.



So as we went up the ally, I had to carry his trike over the grass to the front path back to the house........then we turned around and went back the way we had come. I knew he would insist.

That afternoon we got the other trike out and he rode that for the first time. I let him out on the drive way to practice. He did it so that evening he showed Grandpa Dan his accomplishment and Dan took him back up the front path to practice.