Pink Roses

delicious-ness…

My Gardenias are blooming and the yard is filled with delicious-ness.  One bloom can scent an entire room!

My oldest Gardenia bush was my grandfathers…it was his favorite.  My grandfather has been gone for 41 years, and I have had his Gardenia bush for the past 20 or so years.  It’s a bit of pressure when your family heirloom is a living thing!  Every year I am grateful when it blooms!  It was blooming last week too, when my parents were here, and MY father got to see HIS fathers Gardenia in bloom.  It made us both very happy :) 

Wishing you all a great weekend!

overflowing…

My hydrangea bushes are absolutely overflowing with blooms this year.  Last year they hardly bloomed at all! 

We’ve had so much rain, that the branches are drooping to the ground.  Every morning I go out and cut a bunch of flowers-the house is full and I’m giving away all I can!

I’m taking this bunch to a friend today…

Wish you were near, I’d bring some to you too!

daisy…

I have allowed wild strawberries to grow in one section of my garden, hoping the rabbits would eat those for breakfast instead of my Gerbera Daisies.  No such luck.  They prefer Daisies.  A rabbit was eating this stem this morning, when I chased him off with a broom. 

It’s just long enough to fit in this little bottle, and cheer up my kitchen.

Hope you all have a cheerful day!

camellias…

My girlfriend Nancy called the other day and said “My camellias are blooming and they’re the perfect color pink…they’re YOUR color pink.  Please come over and cut all you want”  Well, she didn’t have to ask me twice!

She had hundreds of flowers…

She’s right, they are the perfect pink…good friends know that about you!

my helper...

 

I was trying to take a few pictures of my Hydrangeas today, because at this time of the year they turn green instead of blue.  I don't know if it's just the end of the season, or something to do with heat (lots of it), or rainfall (not enough of it).  They will stay green like this all winter, eventually turning very papery and brown.

I think they look very pretty this way...very neutral ... they actually match my decor better than the bright blue.  I looked up from the flowers and noticed that my helper had followed me outside...

She follows me everywhere...she is curled up by my feet as I write this.  And she has no plans to leave me and go off to college.  I should have just had cats, not kids.

a busy bee...

Life seems hectic these days...no big project underway, just the project of life, and I'm trying to enjoy it. Here are a few pictures I took at my parents house last week...

I don't know what kind of flower this is, but it reminds me of those little paper flower nosegays, with the different colors all on one stem...if you know what this is, please tell me...I want to plant them next year...

Daisy's always remind me of "You've got Mail", one of my favorite movies of all time...

Pink Hydrangeas {sigh}...right up there with pink roses...

My dad is also interested in Hypertufa gardens...which he fills with succulents...I love these Hen and Chicks...  and the mossy color of these...

...which were sitting next to this pile of rocks that my dad brings home from fishing trips...this explains a lot of my behavior...

I hope that whatever your Project Life has in store for you today, that you can enjoy it.  I'm going to put on some music and clean the kitchen and dance. 

I said I'm trying...:)

my sister's garden...

My sisters flower gardens are SO much nicer than mine, and while I'd like to blame it on the fact that she has better weather and soil than I do, it's quite simply a fact that she puts in MUCH more time than I do.  It shows...

She has gardens all around her house, and everything was blooming beautifully...this bee balm was swarming with bees...

My sister lives in the same town as my parents in Pennsylvania...

We tend to like the same colors in our gardens...

I took over 50 pictures of her flowers, I won't bore you with them all, just wanted to share a little color, in case your garden is looking as sad and wilted as mine is in this summer heat!

Everything in her yard was just perfect... It made me want to come home and replant my garden... There's always next year... :)

roses...

Have I ever mentioned that I love roses? 

   Yesterday Elizabeth had lunch with her Grandma and Grandpa Duda and she brought home some roses from their garden...

 

I made the roses model for me...

There were 5 roses of different colors, and they didn't really look great all together, even though they are all together in a vase right now...

 

I just went around the house finding things that looked good with each one individually...like I had nothing better to do!  I knew it would be appreciated by my blog friends...hope you enjoy!