Showing posts with label from my garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label from my garden. Show all posts

Friday, June 6, 2014

Pink Saturday

Happy Pink Saturday.  It’s not actually Saturday yet here, but it’s already Saturday in some parts of the world!!
Beverly at How Sweet The Sound hosts a Pink Saturday party every week.   I think she started it over 6 years ago.  Since I have some pink blooming in my garden I thought it would be fun to snap some pictures for you  and join in today.
These aren’t from my garden.  They were a gift for my birthday.  Our peonies are already finished blooming here in North Carolina.   I love the fragrance of them!
These are growing right outside our kitchen door.  They are a kind of campanula (I think).
We dug up a whole bed full of old shrubs on the other side of our kitchen door and I planted it with perennials.  These pretty little zinnias help fill in the spaces until the perennials have a chance to mature.
One of my favorite old standbys, pink geraniums.  They remind me of my mother.  She loved to do watercolor paintings of  geraniums and always had large pots of pink or coral ones in the summer.
This rosebush grows at the end of our driveway and wants to climb all over the mailbox, so I am constantly cutting it back.
That’s all the pink that is blooming in the garden on this June day.
  I have one more pink flower to show you.  It’s in a painting which I did recently.  I’ve just begun to experiment a little bit with acrylic paints.  It’s not very good but I like the colors!   So that’s my contribution to Pink Saturday.  Thank you to Beverly for hosting it.  I hope you’ll stop by and say hello if you’ve never met her before and maybe visit a few of the other bloggers who have pink things to show you.
 I have been so inconsistent with my blogging.  I wonder if anyone will even read this today…
Rhondi xo

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Daffodils and Thankful Thursday

I just love this time of year!  One of the main reasons I love it is I have flowers blooming in the garden.  Right now it’s daffodils.  So I brought a lot of them inside and put them in vases around the house. On this Thankful Thursday I am thankful for all the flowers I get to have inside and outside.

                                                            in the kitchen window
                                                          on the island in the kitchen
                                                   in little milk jugs on the dining room table
                                                         on my desk in the sunroom
                                                      beside my chaise in the sunroom


and in the window in the sunroom.
A little bit of cheerfulness on a sad day for me.  When my dad died, my mother remarried a man named Joe Cowdrey and I just learned today that he died last night.  Even though my mom has been gone 10 years we have still kept in touch with Joe.  He was such a kind, generous man and everyone loved him. Our children were too young to remember Grandpa Andy who was my dad, so Grandpa Joe became their grandpa.   On this Thankful  Thursday I am thankful that I got to have such a good man in my life and he will be missed.
Rhondi xo

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

A Walk in the Garden

It is a beautiful day here, so I grabbed my phone and took some photos of our garden. The quality isn't quite as good as with my normal camera, but come for a walk with me anyhow. Everything is a beautiful color of green right now.


 I love the color of the Siberian Iris.  I wish they lasted a little longer!


















 I picked three peonies to have inside.  They are so full and beautiful and smell lovely.
I hope that you have something blooming where you are too!
Thanks for stopping by!

Rhondi