pretty + simple

flowers + thyme

Each day comes and I think today I will update my little space here but each day seems to zoom by faster than the last.  Why does that happen?  I don't want it to be that way.  (sigh)  There's lots of spring activity going on behind the scenes over here.  Yesterday I finally spent a full day in the gardens.  Only they were not my own.  It was here and it felt absolutely amazing to be digging in the dirt and back at the orchard.  Fresh air, sunshine, a rain shower, not one but two slices of homemade rhubarb custard pie (!) and then more sunshine again.  Flowers kept coming from the greenhouse as we planted more and more.  By the end of the day it looked like we had barely put a dent in the greenhouse.  There were so many more flowers just waiting to be planted!  I went home with 5 flats of mixed flowers and a gorgeous basket.  I felt like I had just won a flower lottery. 

 

Today.  It felt like August.  Hot and humid.  The kind where you just stand outside and the sweat starts happening.  So that's what I did.  I made notes in my gardening book while the sweat dripped from the end of my nose and down my back.  And then I remind myself that it's May 23rd.  This won't last forever and I know the plants are loving this weather.  A few things are sprouting in the vegetable garden and its slowly making progress.  I have more to plant and I have high hopes for that this week.  For real.  I've got a date with the outside world each night this week.   

Right now as I type I can hear the thunder rolling in and the raindrops starting.  I love that.

Nothing beats rain and thunder humming you to sleep at night.  Don't you think so?

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Enjoy the week!

Hope it's sunny and seventy.

{ xoxo }
 

 

summerlike

the weekend included my favorite pancakes topped with homemade strawberry rhubarb sauce 

made with strawberries from last season and rhubarb from this season

yum is a good word for this combo

 

lilacs were snipped and sniffed while the ladies worked on the bug control

a robin's egg found while mowing the lawn

the perfect blue, don't you think?

the hammock made it's way into the backyard again

naps and a good book found a home there too

and a campfire added to the glory of a warm, sunny weekend

of course there were also a few spins around the yard on my trusty, rusty Starliner

 

it even sports a working headlight in case I get all crazy and decide

 to take a spin down main street after dark ;)

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{ fancy Starliner bike found via craigslist for a steal of a deal } 
 

 

soaking it up

 

It's been raining this week.  A nice, slow steady rain.  The kind of rain that the earth quietly soaks up and you can see it smiling back in green.  It's also the kind of rain that makes you want to curl up on the couch with the cat and take a long afternoon nap.  I didn't but if I had been home I could've been easily persuaded.  I went out in between showers this evening to see if I could find a few things to photograph. 

 

Everything was freshly washed.  Ready for the camera.

 

This past Sunday we woke to frost on the ground and I was secretly happy that we hadn't planted the vegetable garden yet.  Even though April had been such a beautiful month it's just a little too risky in this neck of the woods to plant too early.  It's so tempting though when everything is warm and sunny!

 

So tell me ... what's happening in your garden today? 
  
 
 

just dandy

Happy Mother's Day to all those awesome Mom's out there that visit this tiny space.  I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing day... spent just the way you wanted it to be!

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Sorry for my absence here last week.  Gordy has been having severe back pain and it was a week filled with phone calls, doctor visits, a MRI, pain meds, and many restless nights.  Every time I tried to take a step forward I fell two steps back.  I felt helpless yet overwhelmed.  What's a girl to do when everything's turning upside down?

Thank God for a new week.

I'm ready for a fresh start.

Because back pain really bites.

Even if it isn't mine.

{ xoxo }