A pretty palette...

I wish I had the talent to paint these flowers.

They look like blobs when I do.

Maybe someday, I'll share my blobs with you.

Pennies from Heaven

When you have only two pennies left in the world,

buy a loaf of bread with one and a lily with the other.

~ Chinese Proverb

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( Thank-you Tom and Nora for my flowers. )

It Doesn't Take Much to Amaze Me

So...this evening I'm at my sink doing dishes and I'm looking at my rose. The same one Tom gave me for Valentine's Day. Then I start thinking wow this flower is really lasting a long time. Hmmm it was the 14th and today is the 23rd. That was 9 days ago! Look at it. Of course it's hard to see because as always I just grab the camera.............point ---> shoot and then subject the world to my poor photography skills. Oh well. What a Rose!

It was in May

Bring flowers of the rarest,
bring blossoms the fairest,

from garden and woodland and hillside and dale;

our full hearts are swelling,
our glad voices telling

the praise of the loveliest flower of the vale!

You will not Croak-Us

We have one of those driveways that come right up alongside the house,

all the way to the back door.
There's a narrow strip of earth in between the house and drive that I dare to call a garden.

Once there was a nice stand of Periwinkle,

but large patches have died off leaving it dusty and patchy.

Blame a too hot sun from last summer,

or sporadic urinations from a passing pet.

Or maybe the careless footsteps that stomp as they jump out of a car.

Beside my driveway can be a dangerous place.

Where oil slicks roll off in fingers when it rains.

Where shovels heap their heavy snow during wintry blizzards.

Where we dump the sand from our shoes after beach jaunts.

Where bicycle tires travel too close.

Where bouncing balls finally land.

It can be a treacherous place!

But the will to live is strong for a Crocus.

These tough little troopers have survived more than 20 years here.

But they're not so tough that a fly won't land on them!

Roses are red, roses are blue ?

Yesterday was a thoughtful exchange of flowers, valentines and candy. The bouquet above may look like one large bouquet but it's really a collection of vases clustered together. Look at that blue rose from Tom! And the peach one from Theresa. The white rose is from my sweetheart and all the rest of the beautiful flowers are from Nora. (Thank-you)

And...
Xavier 's other front tooth fell out!

First Day of Spring

These little snowdrops welcomed me to spring over at Green Briar Nature Center, Sandwich MA.
If you get to know me well then you'll discover I love wildflowers, birds, being outside and basically anything to do with nature. Today being the first day of Spring seemed a good time to pay my tribute to the heralding snowdrop. Green Briar has hundreds of them marching through the landscape as if on parade.
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This is one of the few clumps I have growing in my own backyard.
Now with all these flowers you would hope to see them open and smiling but noooooooooooooooooooo. So I had to google one open to show you.

Or .....you can bring them inside where it's cozy and warm to coax them open as my sister did here.

Flowers

You know I love Love. I am such a romantic and Valentine's Day has always been celebrated around this house. We visited Nana and Grandpa, exchanged valentines, had a toast with bubbly, ate some chocolate, looked at pictures, smiled, hugged, laughed, came home, made tacos and went to bed.

I appreciate your visit, thank-you. xox ~Elaine