Wing Haven

Hi friends

I got out a couple of pretty pink cups for us for tea today. I chose pink because Angela at Cottage Magpie is having a Valentine giveaway. To be eligible you have to post pictures of pink things in your home. Would you like the teacup with beautiful little pink flowers? Or the pale pink one with the lovely scene?
I wear a lot of pink but when I looked around my home I was surprised at how little pink I have! There is a pink and green quilt I'm working for cancer patients.
Here is a lovely old pink & white quilt which I've had for a long time and a pot of pale pink silk geraniums.
The only other things pink things I could find were these 2 books which I love and my pink glasses. My blog is named after my "rose colored glasses". So I figuratively and literally look at the world through rose colored glasses!
Yesterday I got together with 2 other ladies to decide what perennails to order for the spring sale at Wing Haven. We had a great time looking at gardening books and catalogues and making decisions about what to order.

Wing Haven is a beautiful private garden and bird sanctuary right in the heart of one of the city's prime residential neighborhoods. I volunteer there every Wednesday in the nursery.
These are a couple of pictures I took today. It is very green even in winter. Part of it is wooded with a little pond. Look at the statue of the children about to venture into the water.
As you follow the path through the garden there are lots of plaques with poems and inspiring bible verses on them. My favorite one is posted on a tree just around the bend from the statue. It's by Faith Johnson.

Woods Healing

Sometimes a part of me gets lost

And I am all distraught

And can't think why

My smallest undertaking goes amiss

And my day is spent feverishly

Doing things I had forgotten

Redoing things I had done wrong

While other things accumulate

But if some errand take me through the wood

All at once here is no hurry

I sense the obscure unhurried rhythm

Of growing things

And I am whole again

And go with quiet sureness to my work.

An update on Daisy. She was back again this morning lying down in her favorite spot again! So I've put all our old plastic garden furniture in the spot where she likes to lay down and on the path she takes to come here and I am hoping that it may deter her. I haven't seen her all day so perhaps it's working! Here is a picture of her this morning before I shooed her away!

By the way I picked up the two twig chairs by the side of the road. They aren't sturdy enough to sit in but they look great as ornamentation.
Thanks for stoppping by for a visit. Hope you'll be back soon.

Rhondi xo