Tag: Flowers

Saturday.  

We enjoyed a lovely night on the hook.  We cooked up some grilled red peppers, chicken poblano sausages and rice.  

We’re spoiled now…used our phone as a wireless hotspot and then streamed shows off of amazon prime on TV down below until we both fell asleep.   Not exactly roughing it. 🙂

This morning I paddled for quite a while then went ashore to scrub 6 months of gunk from the bottom of the kayak.   I also checked on some geocaches I’d hidden nearby.  All good. 

Pretty sights:   

 

Tonight Kurt will join us for another night in the cove.  An almost full moon should light things up. 

Bed time. 

I got a bit of a late start, but I finally tended to my fenceline flowerbed.   Plumbago, liriope, red salvia, autumn sage, gaillardia, may night salvia, tickseed, geranium, flowering sage,  and a couple white annuals. 

I’m looking forward to some color!  

Spring at the homestead.  

Monte brought home these lovely yellow tulips yesterday.  So, Spring arrived early for us.  They are so pretty!



Floral harmony. 

I love fresh flowers in the house.  I picked up a bouquet of pretty hydrangea and mums … trying to hang in there til spring arrives. 



Glad tidings.

Get it? Happy Thursday.

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Tulips of white.

Monte brought home a set of tulips. My favorite, as you probably have learned. These are white and gorgeous.

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Fyi, Google says January 17 is National Tulip Day in Holland. Go get you some!

Lovely blooms.

I happened across a rose garden today. I just had to stop and smell a few.

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Aloe Vera in bloom.

Over the years, we’ve amassed quite a collection of aloe vera plants. Some plants Monte has had for 20 years or so.
This year we were surprised to see the grand daddy plant sending up a spike of flowers. Google sez this is common, even though it’s a first for us. Who knew?!

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Tulip hexaptych.

I may have mentioned that I love tulips. 🙂 And, I’m always amazed at how much they continue to grow after I put them in a vase. I brought home a bunch of gorgeous light pink ones on Saturday. Then I proceeded to take a snapshot for the next six days to capture their growth day to day. Kinda cool.

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Bonnets of blue.

The wildflower patch out back didn’t yield much last year.   This year we have a few patches of bluebonnets.   They’ve started to show their beautiful colors.IMG_3027

Oh, and Happy St. Patrick’s day!

Late bloomers.

These 2 guys showed up as part of a late set in the zinnie patch. They missed the memo about summer being over.

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Homegrown.

This bouquet comes straight from our garden: Zinnias, basil, rosemary…
Happy Friday!!!

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First zinnies.

Monte’s zinnias are starting to bloom. These are the first ones we’ve brought inside to enjoy.

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Pop.

This morning these lilies from Mother’s Day were still closed buds. Tonight, voila! Very pretty.

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