Roses from the Garden

 

"Decide what you want, 

decide what you are willing to exchange for it. 

 Establish your priorities and go to work." - H.L. Hunt

Mumzie

Pink Chrysanthemums - Pink Saturday

 

Chrysanthemums are one of my favorite flowers.  I remember playing with the upside down leaves as a child, and pretending they were ladies in long gowns dancing away. 

 Imagination was a good thing and great fun!

So, today I am sharing with you a picture of my gorgeously "PINK" chrysanthemum.  

Before our move I had four of these plants....I think only two have survived. 

Only time will tell.  Think PINK!

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 Remember that imagination is the faculty of the soul and that when it suggest new pathways to us we are being invited 

to explore the territory of the soul in ways that will certainly change and re enchant us. 

--Caitlin Matthews (song writer)

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Join more pink fun at "How Sweet The Sound" for other

Pink Saturday participants!

  Mumzie

Hot August Night

Same sunflower....next day...with candlelight!

I saw a field of sunflowers today....sort of growing

wild, I wonder if I would get in trouble if I

went and sat in the middle and took pictures.

Just thinking.

Mumzie

Sunflowers - Trader Joe's - $2.99

Something to brighten the day!

 I need to bake something!  

Mumzie

Tulips - Pink Saturday 4/16/11

I'm loving these pink tulips today...picked them up a couple

of days ago....they are still looking gorgeous!

I'm loving Pink again today....

Happy Pink Saturday!

I'm linking this post to "Pink Saturday" at

How Sweet the Sound

Thanks to Beverly for hosting Pink Saturday. Please visit Beverly's
"How Sweet the Sound" for more participants.

Mumzie

Winter Flowers - African Violets & Snapdragons

 Needed some color today....it's foggy and wet outside.

 A  little Rosemary sprig.

 More light and fertilizer this year ....and look at this beautiful large bloom. 

Amazing what a little TLC will do!

 I love this dark blue...but will need to repot this one soon after the blooming is done.

 January Snapdragons...Oh My!

Our barrel of snapdragons just keep going and going...what's left anyway, after
my cuttings for the house.  I took this picture this morning.

Color is always welcome in January!

Happy Tuesday.

Mumzie

Friday Finding Beauty

Hanging Basket Hyacinths

Beautiful Pansie that just keeps blooming...and blooming...

Another hanging basket

Hyacinths around bottom of our small red maple tree

Hyacinth coming up through ferns.

Looking down through the red maple.

Seems like this petunia is glowing.

First bloom on Easter Sunday

Wysteria on our new arbor.

Red Maple...no babies yet. 

Another hanging basket.

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To believe in magic as a viable way of enhancing our quality of life does require a leap of faith.

  We must see life in slightly romantic terms;

recognize falling in love or growing a flower

or even cooking a perfect pie as a demonstration of the magic of balance,

of everything coming together in just the right way.

                                                ........Titania Hardie

Beauty is all around....you just have to look for it!

For more participants visit Claudia at Dipity Road

A special thanks to Claudia for hosting today's Finding Beauty!

Have a wonderful Friday!

Mumzie

Friday ~~~ Finding Beauty

Kylemore Abbey - Ireland

 

Foxglove - Digitalis Purpurea - Lus Mor

 

 

 

This is my first post for "Friday ~~ Finding Beauty" and wanted to share one of the most beautiful places I've visited .....Kylemore Abbey in Ireland.  In a previous post back in August 2009 I shared my pictures of  the Gothic Church at Kylemore.  I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I do. 

Thanks to Claudia at Dipty Road for hosting this new event!

 For more information, please visit Claudia's blog. 

Also, check out all the other particiants post for the day.  It's pretty cool!

Mumzie

September 1, 2009 - Change is on It's Way

Autumn to winter, winter to spring,

Spring into summer, summer into fall --

so rolls the changing year, and so we change;

motion so swift, we know not that we move.

- Dinah Mulock Craik

It's September! Can you believe it?

Mumzie

Saturday Fun with Tapado

Tapado

Tapado & the Hubs

Beautiful skies that day, so I sat down in the middle of the pasture and looked up, what a view!

Scottish Thistles in Oakdale?

Couldn't resist taking a picture of this thistle which I almost sat on.

Standing still is hard...Tapado just wants to get going.

Crawford, he's from Crawford Texas but Oakdale is home now.

Such a cute dog.

Working on getting in shape.

Doing nicely between the poles.

Doing much better.

Crawford racing alongside.

Micky the pup...he's a cat chaser.

Both are having really great fun!

What a fun Saturday!

Mumzie