Powered sugar snow on the snowdrops,
one last curtain call for winter
before spring takes the stage.
Snow Fall on Flowers
17 Monday Mar 2014
Posted in Poetry
Tag Archives: flowers
Flowers And Kitties In the House
09 Monday Sep 2013
Posted in Plants and Flowers
This day began with me donning gloves and cleaning the bathroom at work after a young boy spent some time in there, but failed to use the toilet –for any of his needs. Enough said. My next work debacle included several hours spent gathering data on a spreadsheet to supply to our auditors, only to lose the document in the bowels of the computer, never to be seen again. Such is the life of a non-profit executive. Glamorous, it is not.
But speaking of glamour, and on a much happier note, it’s Flowers In The House over at Jane’s. So I headed out to my fading yard after dark, to see what I could collect for an early autumn bouquet to bring to the party. I tucked some sedum, dogwood leaves, caladium and red fountain grass fronds into a tall marbly vase that was a wedding gift.
Felix the Cat stopped by to take a sniff.
More sedum, hydrangea, lavender stalks, a few stragglers from the asters, and some wintercreeper clippings went into a pottery vase that I rescued many years ago from a discard pile outside the ceramics lab at college. I rather like the scorch marks.
Pirate rather likes the flowers!
Be sure to stop on over to Jane’s at SmallButCharming and check out the lovely flowers from around the world!
Unexpected Gifts
19 Friday Jul 2013
Posted in Uncategorized
Blooms and promise of blooms!
13 Saturday Jul 2013
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All day yesterday and through the night a gentle rain fell on the garden. This afternoon the dog and I, and a multitude of mosquitoes, took a tour to see what’s what.
The petite hostas rimmed in lime green have lovely purple blooms.
The first of the phlox is just starting to blossom.
Lovely echinacea with their burnished gold cones.
A few delicate asters have opened. They will bloom into the fall and look lovely against a backdrop of autumn leaves.
The daisies are fresh-faced as always.
Two years ago I planted a hibiscus that was a gift or random giveaway. Last year it graced me with two lovely pink blooms. This year there are no less than 80 blooms on it! I can’t wait for the spectacular show.
Flowers In The House
26 Wednesday Jun 2013
Posted in Plants and Flowers
I’m enjoying a rare day off, right in the middle of the week, and it gives me a chance to join Jane’s Flowers In the House party. I’m definitely late to the party, but this is what vacation days are for, and it seems too fun not to join in.
We inherited a bedraggled hydrangea when we moved in 8 years ago. I love the way the blooms fade like watercolors from blue to pink. By summer’s end they’ll be green. I tucked in a woodland fern that grows in the same bed.
The first coneflower of the year has bloomed. I added smoke bush, a few spikes of salvia and a coral bell bloom.I love the antique pitcher, passed to me from my mom.
I have a fascination with miniature things, and had fun collecting bits of geranium, carnation, spirea, lavender, gypsophila and euphorbia to fill my itty bitty vases.
Cool of the morning
15 Saturday Jun 2013
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Ordinarily, at this time of year, in this part of the world, at this time of early morning,
the sun would already be casting uncomfortable heat.
But last night i slept with a blanket and today the first rays of sun against the house are countered by a breeze that calls for a sweater.
Grateful, I ease into the cool morning, coffee in hand, while the cat lounges beside me.
Plants in Pots
27 Monday May 2013
Posted in Plants and Flowers
Hidden Treasures
26 Sunday May 2013
Posted in Uncategorized
