Everyone is ready for springtime and that was very apparent at the Philadelphia Flower Show. So instead of more snow pictures I will share a few more of the sights I saw there last Friday. This is what I wish my outdoor Wednesday looked like. But it still looks the same outdoors here, even though our [...]
Dahlias are great flowers that give such pleasure with their different colors and constant blooms. They are tubers that bloom in the summer and grow well in full sun. They are hardy in zones 7 – 11. If you live where it gets very cold, you have to dig them up after the first killing frost and store [...]
My son has seen the movie Avatar five times. I have seen it twice. Once just to see it, on New Year’s Eve with my husband and then last night my aforementioned son talked me into a late movie. Since he is 18 and way too busy to hit the movies with his mom on a [...]
Here are a few of the stained glass I have hanging in my windows. What I have realized doing this post is that all my stained glass pieces except one, has flowers on it. Go figure… me,… flowers. This first one hangs in my kitchen. I love it’s simplicity and it’s colors. The light that streams through [...]
My forced paper whites have grown so rapidly. They are already in bloom. The flowers are smaller than I expected, although they are very fragrant. They grew so quickly and are a joy to look at! I picked up this miniature rose (Kordana Rose) today. The colors fit the season perfectly and it is so healthy looking, I couldn’t [...]
My scenic sunday post is about a shop we visited called Sea Hag. It is in an old barn on a very scenic road near a lake. Although it’s out there a ways, people come from all around to visit and shop. The owner Colleen, sells beautiful artwork, antiques, furniture and her own brand of [...]
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Happy Friday! Since I have put my gardens to bed for winter, I haven’t much to flaunt but I went out there anyway, hopeful, camera in hand. To my surprise I actually found a couple of blooms in the garden. Meager as they are, they are still flowers, so here they are. All two of [...]
The last bits of color left in my yard are sedum. Besides the autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of the haze. ~Emily Dickinson
There is still a bit of growing going on here. The rose bush surprised me with a couple of new buds, even though I thought I had seen the last flower last week. The daisies are still making up for lost time, my hibiscus gave me one last bloom before I brought her inside and [...]
