"Waiting for my butterflies"

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

  ~Anatole France

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.  ~Author Unknown

"Bloom Day"

  I Love African Violets~



Sunday Roses

After weeks (or is it months?) of snow and sad weather, the sun is finally beginning to make an appearance.  YEA!

Since tomorrow is V-Day, I thought I would show the roses I have planted in the past.

"Winter Sunset"

"Peace"

"Savannah Silk"

"James Galway"  David Austin

"Joseph's Coat"

another of "Joseph's Coat"

"Winter Sunset" 

"Altissimo"

"Glamis Castle" (David Austin)

"New Dawn"

"Sunny Delight"

"Kordes Perfecta"

Tomorrow.... I prune~

Friends ... Friday!

I LOVE my friends~

All of them!
At school.....



Or....

Home

Words for Wednesday

"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." ~ The Koran

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
Dale Carnegie

Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing.
Cicero

Touring on Tuesday

I guess I've mentioned that I LOVE my garden and being outside?

and

that

I

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

my family. 

I am now beginning to place something in my garden for each member of my family as my expression of love for them.

Kip (my husband) "the fisherman"

Daniel (my son, "Wolf-boy")

Dustin (my son who had rather do anything than read)

Nancy (Dustin's g/f... the tall, graceful one)

McClaine (my 1st grandbaby who is now nearly 5)

Brooks (grandson #2) "my angel"

Della (my mother who is indeed angelic)

My Dad (R.I.P)  "The Hunter"

( I will have to look thru my albums to find the picture of the squirrel.)

Kris Ann (my daughter in law)

I am still looking for her 'just right" piece of art. 

I look all the time... just have not found the right one yet.

And for me...

I have two that I love that I put in my garden that represent me.

The first is for my love of birds.

And this one is in  my "G" garden because I am "G" to my grandkids.



Mundane Monday

Mundane = "found in the ordinary course of events"

Today actually WAS mundane.  Students were blah after coming back from a long week and weekend of ice/snow closing school. 
If I were in my garden the mundane things would be pulling weeds, deciding where to put my new rose bush, yanking some obscure vine or plant that needs more sun or less sun, but there is something very comforting about doing the ordinary things in a garden. 

Here I see a planter filled with a conglomeration of new plants coming up with some old leaves that would need cleaning out.

I love Creeping Jenny, but it won't look as it is meant to look unless I deadhead it and pinch it back almost daily.

The Peace Rose at the corner of the house has to be deadheaded daily as the blooms are soo big and pretty.  The only negative with this big rose is that there is not much smell as the blooms stay pretty on the vine for quite a while.

Horse-tails don't require much attention once they are growing in the spring, but since I consider this to be my Zen center... I like to keep each stalk(if that is what you call the long slender stakes) perfectly straight.

Mundane... to others, yes~  but to me, this is why I LOVE to be in my garden.