Gardening with Soule

      ~Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.  ~Dan Rather     

The weather has been dreary and cold for days with some rain and sunshine stuck in here and there.    Not great gardening weather which means I have been very lazy about weeding and trimming.   I hate shivering while I am gardening.   To spite my neglect, things are still beginning to bloom so there are [...]

  ~To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.  ~Beverly Nichols Visit Lisa’s Chaos for Macro Monday

Vintage cards for Easter!   Cute little chicks, a cuddly bunny and last but not least,  A tulip.  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, [...]

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.      Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust   *Click here or be sure to check out [...]

       ~The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination.  ~Ward Elliot Hour   Visit a Southern Daydream for Outdoor Wednesday . 

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.              “slow buds the pink dawn like a rose from out night’s gray and cloudy sheath; softly and still [...]

  When we look at flowers, we see their colors and shape and enjoy their beauty.  We are also taken with their fragrance.  They are pretty to look at and nice to have around.  But if we look closer, they are more than just a pretty face.  We would like to think that they are here purely for [...]

Remember  last  week ?       This was so worth the wait!   Seven Flowers !      ~Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson    Visit Tootsie Time to see what everyone else has blooming this January day.  Visit Roses N Stuff for blooming Friday.