Flowers and Butterflies

Hello y'all! happy advanced St. patrick's Day to you :)
I just want to direct you to Nature Girl's blog... if you long for the sun, bright color, the beauty of flowers and beautiful butterflies. 'NG' is from Canada and visiting her son or daughter in Arizona. She's got great pictures over there...

Have a happy weekend and God Bless!

Eye Candy

Good morning, good morning, here's some eye candy for me and hopefully for you:) I went to the thrift store last Monday, and left with "stuff." First, let me show you a lamp I "crush". I didn't buy it because it doesn't go with what I have at home.

I crush you very much!

Here's what I bought for our home and am so happy with! The red pottery are my cookie jars now, and the yellow pot, made in Italy, is where I put my potatoes and bananas and stuff. The candle holders are now on my mantle.

And look!!! Starfish!

Then when I get a chance, these are going up on EBay:

Focusing On Chores

I need to get caught up with my chores and other duties. Here's some music for you all, I love you! Here are pictures of seeds I am growing, and more plants I ordered. I can't wait!!! Lots of things need to get done, oh computer tell me to keep working and to stop blogging!

From seed:
http://www.burpee.com/

portulaca, coreopsis, lavender lady, oriental poppy

http://www.butchartgardens.com/

annual cut flower mix, forget-me-nots

Shipping in April:
http://www.springhillnursery.com/

lilies and Peony sorbet
Other plants I am expecting have been posted here..

Time To Grow

Today I finally sowed my seeds - indoors. This year I decided to make do with what I have and I think it's going to be just fine. The seeds I'm growing are poppies, forget-me-nots and an annual cut flower mix - I got them last year but did not get to sow them all.

About the poppies. I sowed 300 of them directly to my flower bed. Then watered, watered, and watered them away! None of them grew. Thank goodness I left 1 pack unopened.

Oriental Poppy Pizzicato Mix courtesy of http://www.burpee.com/

Annual Cut Flower Mix (above) and Anchusa Blue Angel or Forget-Me-Nots (below)

Courtesy of The Butchart Gardens, www.butchartgardens.com

DH requested me to grow some portulacas this year, which I still have to get.

So here's what I did today... I just used whatever containers I could find, pierced some holes underneath them, put some soil in, sprinkled the seeds, then a little more soil on top.

Celebrating Color

Color

Colors and dots

Color and megablocks

Can you imagine life without color?

Think of the color grey.

Imagine everything in that color.

Grey hair, grey skin,

grey cardinals, grey grass,

a grey house

A grey rainbow.

Please no...

Here's something interesting to read, it's about the spelling issue of the colour grey.

Have a no-grey day everyone!