Gardening with Soule

Here are a few blooms from my garden this week!
  There is so much color everywhere it’s hard to choose which  one I like the most. 

What do you think?
~”I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
-   L. M. Montgomery
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~Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?  ~Maurice Maeterlinck
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 ~Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.  ~Dan Rather 

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The weather has been dreary and cold for days with some rain and sunshine stuck in here and there. 

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Not great gardening weather which means I have been very lazy about weeding and trimming.Â
 I hate shivering while I am gardening. 

 To spite my neglect, things are still beginning to bloom so there are some treats to see. 

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~To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.  ~Beverly Nichols
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Vintage cards for Easter!  

Cute little chicks, a cuddly bunny
and last but not least,  A tulip.Â
I had to get at least one flower in there for springtime.
Have a nice Easter.
~I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,
And the Easter bells be ringing!  [...]

I am offering up my PINK sunset for Pink Saturday.
Also, some PINK flowers,
one of which is a morning glory just about ready to bloom.
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 Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust

 

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~The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination.  ~Ward Elliot Hour

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As promised, I took a photo of my iris’s that are now opened up.  I think it’s the color that really grabs me with these, although the flower itself is beautiful on it’s own.
 Maybe I am just so winter weary that  any flower makes me giddy.  Either way there is no denying that Mother Nature is [...]

I have a new reason to think pink.  A new grandaughter is coming!
 She is also our first grandchild, so the world is looking better through my new rose colored glasses. 

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“slow buds the pink dawn like a rose from out night’s gray and cloudy sheath; softly and still it grows, petal by petal, leaf by leaf”.~  [...]