The garden

Spring is magical... Every time, every year! Ah yes, pure magic and such joy and love!

And then, there are all those roses...

roses roses, indescribable gorgeous marvelous roses everywhere... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roses hanging from my kitchen windows

 

 

 

Mud on my feet, thorns tattooing my skin,
the smell of fresh earth in my body, in my hair;
freckles galore, and then...
then there is this freshness;
this glorious newness all around.

 
It truly is a magical season and I wish I don't have to see it go so soon!

 

The garden is an enchanted place these days. Every hour is a new bird, a new song, a new sprout, new blossom... the soften ground, the sweet smells of things growing, life unfurling—predictable things.... unpredictable happenings—things that always, always, know how to enchant and take your breath away.

 

 

Love, joy, peace, mirth and all the good vital forces are about us just as the atmosphere, but because we are sometimes a little blind we only believe in what we can actually see. I notice the world around me and understand.  Life is an open magic box of secret codes and phrases, which pass by in simple daily moments, except for those with ears that “hear” and eyes that "see".

Pretty Things

 

Today I am thankful for the things that money cannot buy... big little things; things that may not be of great

value to some, but things that make my life so very full, and rich...

5 Gifts From Today:

1. Simple inexpensive things that are so precious to me... these very things scattered around my house

2. Posies from my garden... the first rose bouquets...

3. The beauty of nature

4. Inspiration that abounds

5. Sharing love and precious moments with those we love. .. my dear Father.

Ah yes, a very happy Father's Day to every good dad out there...

And thank you for coming here my friends....

Sending sunshine and roses in the way of good wishes to you!

Peonies

I live under the canopy of an enchanted garden... and these days, my garden has been gifting me with peonies; dozen of gorgeous lovely peonies...  THANK YOU!

 

 

 

 

I have heard some things about peonies and ants. Some people worry about bringing them inside, because of the ants. Gladly, I have never seen any ants on my peonies, but even if they did happen to have ants on them, I wouldn't mind bringing them inside anyways... they're so very lovely!

 

 

I planted my hot pink peonies when we first moved to the house in the roses, about eight years ago. For two consecutive years they did poorly and failed to bloom, so I moved them to a sunnier location and finally after two more years, they put roots and adapted to the environment. They seem to grow wild now and in abundance. And there's that other peony bush, positively gorgeous with huge pink blossoms, which I inherited a couple of years ago from a woman on a country road who was having a yard sale on her farm; gorgeous peonies were in full bloom against the old fence. I asked her if she would spare a root, and she kindly agreed. When she pulled out the peony root, out went with it a small fragment of some phlox. I planted the whole thing just the way she gave it to me, and now I not only have this lovely peony bush growing in my garden... the phlox has multiply abundantly and it's growing everywhere.

 

Love them!