This post comes to you,
just because it’s spring,
A Spring ‘Blue’ for outstanding performance, to the sweet peas, hebes, phacelia, borage, forget-me-nots, alyssum, campanula, and clematis.
and flowers demand attention, with winning ways,
Clover, sweet peas, and roses have seductively winning wiles.
and because I promised Tish Farrell , Writer on the Edge, I would photograph my mini-meadows when they flowered.
‘Oh may I squire you round the meads
And pick you posies gay?’ A E Housman
‘Ah, life, what is it but a flower?’ A E Housman, A Shropshire Lad
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Beautiful flowers to brighten this cloudy Sunday morning. 🙂 Your posies are exquisite.
Thank you! The spring flowers are no more, so I am having to make do with lots of lavender. What a trial…NOT. 😉
Your bouquets are a perfect feast for the eyes. Spring is my favorite season, and thoughts of it help me bear the rainy days of our coastal winters. Better rain than snow—but flowers are best of all.
Blessings ~ Wendy
Thank you, Wendy, and may I say better rain and snow than ice. Take care. 🙂
Beautiful flowers … I love the fact that you took photographs of those mini-meadows when they flowered…
I am wishing you merry Christmas and all the best for 2016… happy to connect with you, dear Gallivanta. Aquileana 🌟 ☀️
Thank you Aquileana. 🙂
I can smell the heavenly scent. Marry Christmas my friend!
Thank you Cindy. And the same to you. Wishing you some gentle rain.
me too!!! Merry Christmas Gallivanta!!! 🙂
Spring is such a wonderful time especially because of the flowers. Yours are beautiful…enjoy!
Thank you Karen. Most of the spring flowers are making way for the summer ones now. In my garden that means a few roses. 🙂
Blossoms, promises, hopes…. spring. Thanks for the reminder that spring will come in full bloom!
Yes, it will come but, in the meantime, you have a different type of spring/renaissance in the form of your new Prime Minister. 🙂
Oh – YOU are so right!!! I am, once again, proud to call myself a Canadian. We were in winter for a long time here.
We wish him well. Even non Canadians are looking to him for hope and inspiration.
Oh, my goodness – if I knew him better I’d pass that message along – may do it anyhow! Believe it or not we are friends on facebook. grin.
I must check out his Facebook!
Your garden and flowers looking beautiful as always. Cant wait for my borage to flower, it’s just at the leaf stage right now!
Hope your borage is blooming and the bees are buzzing. Mine has all gone to seed; looks so untidy but the birds love the seeds, so I will let it be.
No flowers yet, just a lot of foliage! It will come in a few weeks unless the weather turns cold. Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year 🙂
The same good wishes to you, too. 🙂
The joy of spring – I think no one transmits it better than you, dear friend. Your garden and flowers shower their fragrant petals all over the world. Thank you!
Aww, such a lovely comment. I have been offline for a while, visiting parents and daughter in Australia.
I hope you had a lovely time over there. Welcome back!
Good but tiring. I am pleased to be home. I am not so good with hot steamy weather anymore. 😦
Who is :-((
😀 😀
Such beautiful flowers. Your air has the beautiful breath of spring in it…and ours has the darkness of the night that only the Nordic has this time of year. But I am not lamenting, for the there are candles to be burned and our spring and blooms will come with time. Happy Advent!
I have been sweltering in the heat of Cairns for 2 weeks. A dark, cold Nordic day seems inviting! Happy Advent.
An awesome meadow of flowers you have. I love the many shades and shadows of blue and lavenders–all my favorite colors. It’s always amazing, to me at least, how the plants seem to know where they will look the absolute best [if they are from seed]. Did you plant this beautiful meadow with plants or from seeds? Oh, how I would love to see your flowers in life but you take exquisite photos of flowers.
I’ve been ‘under a pile of paper’ for a couple of months and not sure when I’ll be finished but wanted to pop in and say hello.
Winter is here and we’ve had our first freeze. I still need to do a bit of winterizing but must keep my priorities in order. Happy spring to you.
Hope you are getting on top of that pile of papers! I have several piles eyeing me with menace. The ‘meadow’ came from a seed packet and some self-sown plants. It’s almost time to re-sow the area. Not sure what will go in next.
I love the meadow that flourish from seed packets. I’ve done a lot of that myself. I know whatever you plant will be exquisite.
This mess of paperwork is going to take another 6 – 9 months. However, I did stop and pick up all the piles off my office floor so I could vaccum and that sort of thing. Now, it’s on my desk and other surfaces.
Happy gardening.
The happy thing about paper work is that when you are finally done with it, and can shred it, it makes very good compost. Christmas Blessings to you.
Unfortunately, the medical records I’m working with I’ll need to file away and keep forever. It will be left for whoever cleans out the house when we are no longer able to live here. I’m thankful I saved as much as I did all these years. It makes going back and asking for other needed records so much easier.
I do shread much of the mail that arrives at our door and other non-essential paper.
Yes, some records and paperwork do need to be kept indefinitely it seems.
Yes, because some of the records I need are from so long ago, I wasn’t smart enough then to hang on to everything and doctor offices didn’t store them after a certain date. I’m also finding many items in Tom’s medical records that aren’t true.
That’s a bother. Are you struggling with a lot of rain?
We’ve had a lot but nothing like so many others. Our area is only 12 years old and was built with a great deal of thought in disposing of heavy rainfall. Parts of the state have been declaed disaster areas.
I have a new Shih Tzu rescue. He’s 3 and a perfect darling. With a name like Bailey he’s a perfect mixture of love and being inquisitive. He loves all the attention and wiggled his way right into our hearts. Happy 2016 to you, my friend.
This is such happy news to hear about your new little companion. I am delighted. 🙂 🙂 If I had a tail I would wag it.
Dear Gallivanta, I’m not sure the earlier post go through. I was absolutely thrilled to see the photo of the LES (Drasa Avenue) Ist XV, which by my estimate is 1959/60, and I’m the first person from left to right in the front row, two away from Scott – I also recognise Kevin Beat and William King (deceased) and another whose surname was Davidson – alas his given name escapes me a the moment. If you have any further information about the photo or can put me in touch with your brother that would be appreciated. My family also attended St Peters Anglican Church in the days of Rev Burgess, prior to our moving to Labasa. I remember the stained glass windows behind the altar donated by Mr Robley (a CSR employee my Dad followed into Navo – just outside Nadi) in honour of his wife. You have a beautiful and inspirational blog. Kind regards, Michael (Abrahams)
Hope you can contact me at kaahend@gmail.com.
Beautiful flowers – I wanted to say especially the first bouquet, but all are very beautiful 🙂
🙂 Of beautiful flowers. I remember the lovely jacaranda along our street in Lusaka.
I am not sure where you lived in Lusaka, but the Lubu Road has a canopy of jacaranda trees. I only realized how beautiful those trees were this year. I took them for granted while home. 😦
I can’t remember the suburb but we were on Ngumbo Road not far from President’s Lane. We do take things for granted, don’t we. 😉
Ngumbo Road was a very nice area – I have not been there in years. I used to live around there once.
It was very nice. 🙂 Hopefully it still is.
Oh, love these soft lavenders!
The bees agree with you Cindy; they love the lavender colours.