Spring Seeds and Weeds! Yep! Seeds and Weeds! OK ….I know many of you are still in the depths of Winter… Only daughter living in the Midwest woke up to 21 degrees and sunny but feeling like 15 degrees. Brrrrrr….that is cold. Our weather here in SW Florida is 56 degrees and the expected high…
I’m talking about Flowers Today! There are so many things happening this month that I feel like a one-armed paper hanger! It seems like I meet myself coming and going from one event to another with no time to stop and chat with myself! LOL There are the usual holidays and graduations and sporting events…
We are doing something a little different on Celebrate Your Story Link Party, starting this week. Chloe, Benita and I have decided to post each of our three favorite posts from the previous week’s link party. In our past link party, we each chose one favorite and posted them all three, plus the most popularly…
Maybe it was the sight of a black and white cat sitting on the porch as I drove through a new neighborhood. Maybe it was the nostalgia that I felt when I remembered my encounter with a strange black and white cat in my own Secret Garden, a few years ago. Maybe it was…
The Lady of Camellias! I went out to the Lanai after church on Sunday and noticed that one of the bowls of Camellias surrounding the waterfall looked…well, looked wilted! I laughed out loud! So you say…perhaps some water would help! No, water is not the issue here…well, it did have something to do with its…
“It isn’t raining rain, you know…it’s raining violets!” Lyrics from the song April Showers! We woke up to rain today and I couldn’t help but think of the lyrics to one of my favorite songs! Reading a good book on a rainy day is always a pleasure for me…and although it is not April…the weather…
Is there a Doctor in the house? That is the question I wanted to ask this morning.:) I believe every bone in my body aches from climbing ladders, bending over, kneeling down, reaching up and over and just basically doing tasks that I haven’t done in a while. OK! I haven’t done in a long,…
Pentas, Dick…the plant is called Pentas! Some of you may or may not have heard of Pentas; I took the pic below of one of my flowering bushes to show you what it looks like if you have not seen it before. “When other plants fade in Florida’s hot and humid summers, perennials like Pentas lanceolata truly…
The Captain and I have always enjoyed the beauty around us…. brilliant sunsets and sunrises, birds in flight, the unfolding bloom as a flower bursts forth with color, majestic mountains, rolling fields of golden wheat rippling under the wind. Retirement allows me to pause longer! 🙂 I find I want to snap more pictures to…
Beautiful sunsets versus the snow! First I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and I wish a very prosperous and wonderful New Year to all. Our families back in the Midwest called to tell us of the gifts or food or other exciting and wonderful happenings on their Christmas Day….and a few told us…
Help!!!! …, there is a white coating on the Mandevilla Vines! The coating is not on the whole vine, but at the base of the vine…next to the dirt…on the brownish wooden twigs! I took my cup of tea out to my Secret Garden this morning and as usual I had to say hello to…
The first time I saw him, I thought my eyes were deceiving me. I thought that little black twig blowing in the wind was nothing but a little black twig blowing in the wind. Â However, it did catch my attention and I continued to examine this, just a little more closely…though from a short distance….