Mystery Yellow Flower

When skies were gray

Yellow flowers brightened my day

These beautiful vibrant flowers grabbed my attention at Jeannie's the other day. They grew along the roadside in front of a field.  I found it amazing that the centers of each flower were not the same. Male and female?

Join us for more sunny moments with Mellow Yellow and at Macro Monday!

Take care and God bless!

Puppy love created with mums

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."

Greet each day with the exuberance of a pup!

Just Wanted To Wish

You A

Most Enjoyable Day !!

May You Always Have Love To Share,

Health To Spare And Friends That Care 

Wherever you are, shine your brightest. This florist certainly made my day. I hope she makes yours! I have never seen a cuter mum! Have you? God bless!

Happy Labor Day!

In between washing and drying my clothes at the laundromat I took a walk and ended up at a nearby bakery that was closed for the day. The flower bed drew my attention. Awww....shadows....

I don't think bakers get to see shadows. Don't they sleep all day and bake all night? :-)

Perhaps they should join us for Shadow Shot Sunday and visit  Harriet so they can see what they're missing?

Take care and God bless. Enjoy the rest of your week end and your labor day holiday!

Growing along the River

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Even Flowers Know when to Bed

 
God designed our days in a certain way. The sun comes up to help us see our way and complete our tasks. At night it goes down as we no longer need  sunshine as we sleep and someone else in another part of the world is enjoying the benefits.







I took this picture just fifteen minutes ago  (9:15 p.m.) of my Rose of Sharon. It was in full bloom just hours before. Even flowers have enough sense to tuck themselves in for the night. :-)

  

Every night I tell myself I’ll be in bed by ten
But this and that comes along and it’s late again
I sit at my computer nearly falling from my chair
So very tired am I but free time is so rare
Between working at the office and taking care of home
I’d just like an hour I could call my own
But if I only had an hour I’d have to decide
Go outside, take pictures, or read and write inside…

by Judy Sheldon-Walker

This just goes to show you I want more than an hour! :-) Enjoy your weekend. Take care and may  God richly bless!

Peachy lilies

This month we are required to work Saturdays. It’s our turn again. We may wish it would never be our turn, but it’s only right.
The week ends just don’t seem the same. They were already MUCH to short. :-) There are so many things I love to do in my “spare” time and friends and family to see. (I don’t believe in the term “spare” time any more than I believe in the term “extra” money. Neither exists!!  Who invented these two phrases any way?

But our dear heavenly father has created an equalizer. When you are (or should I say I am) feeling out of sorts because I am feeling that I am forced to be some where I do not want to be or to perform tasks I do not want to perform I am distracted by something wondrous. As I was heading out the door of work (finally!) this lily beckoned me. Look, doesn’t it look like it is saying “come closer, look at me!”



And, of course, I did. Little lily, how can I resist your beauty? Who would want to? Then, lucky me, who got to work on Saturday, captured some lovely reflections and a butterfly on the way to my car. I’m saving those for my other two blogs. For more shadow shots, please check out Shadow Shot Sunday!

How is your week end going? I hope you are doing what you love best. Take care and God bless!

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The Heart of a Flower

“Have you ever looked into the heart of a flower?…

I love their delicacy, their disarming innocence,

 

and their defiance of life itself.” Princess Grace of Monaco, with Gwen Robyns in
My Book of Flowers (1980)


Lets go over to Today’s Flowers and get lost in the garden!

Old Gardeners Never Die They Just Spade Away!

 

 

I was with my friend Jeannie when she saw this sign “Old Gardeners Never Die.

They Just Spade Away!”  She made the beautiful display above and the hostas pictured were taken from her yard also. I like the whimsical sentiment of the sign. I look at it and want to believe she will never die as her friendship has become to mean a lot to me. When you get to be my age you begin to realize that life every day is truly a blessing as tomorrow is promised to no one. When you begin to pick up the paper and see  former class mates in the obituary it also causes you to realize that our life here is not meant to be forever.  

If you spend much time with flowers and plants you know that some die, but some come back year after year and we get to enjoy their continuous beauty. Friendship is like that too. Even though we sometimes lose a loved one there are memories that are continuous. The spot they hold in our hearts and our minds are continuously beautiful. So we “spade” away to keep our “gardens” beautiful and our friendships blooming.

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Wordless Wednesday - Dianthus

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Take Time to Smell the Roses

I love roses. I don’t believe there is a color that is not exquisite in a rose. Today I took a vacation day to handle some things I could not handle on the week end and I was blessed with a truly beautiful day to run errands in.

There was a billing error on a medical procedure I had taken so I took it and my insurance card into the office and they found the error and are now rebilling my insurance. I was truly grateful for the kindness and courtesy of the staff there and am sure everything will be resolved.

Two blocks from there I had to pull over and take time to smell the roses. The fragrance was heavenly and I was standing on a sidewalk taking advantage of the beauty cascading over the fence. Awww. ..







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