Gratitude...

     The evening of the first day of Summer was a good one.  Warm temps.  Slight breeze in the air.  Everyone out in the backyard.  One little person being ever so patient with me while helping with a project.  Someone laying in the grass reading a book she just can't put down.  Myself trying to learn how to use the camera properly in manual mood from my dearest husband.  He's a saint when it comes to things like this because I am not the most patient with new things.  He's my rock.

     It all makes me stop and be thankful for all the simple but great things I have because of my little family.  Here's to more nights like this one.

~*~

Kar

Early morning posies...

 
     While it is still early in the morning,  I love to go outside and just sit in the cool air and enjoy all the sights, sound, smells of the new day.  Gentle little breezes, sweet smells in the air and pretty little melodies by the little songbirds in the trees and wondering around to see all the blooms around the yard.  It's a wonderful start to the day.

     While I will never become an expert at all things flowery, I must give thanks to a couple of people for all the help and advice that has helped me with my love of flowers in the yard.

     First is Julie whom I've known for over a decade, told me from the very beginning of our meeting "Just throw some seeds out there and see what happens.  Don't be afraid!"  Best advice ever, I swear.  Turned my world upside down with all the seeds that I just "throw" out in the yard now.  I have now been dubbed "crazy flower lady" in my neighborhood.  Love that.

     Second would be Teresa, who has given me simple but wonderful advice on how to propagate flowers so I can have even more around the yard.  Buy a few plants at the nursery, take them home, cut a few snippets off, dip in rooting powder and pray they take root.  This is the first year I have attempted this and it it went well.  Oh the possibilities that are in front of me now.

     Thanks to these two wonderful people I can continue on with my "Crazy Flower Lady" image and make it grow.  

~*~

Kar

Spring love...

     There are times when I let things get a little hectic around here.  Trying to do too many things in a very short period of time.  You would think that I would learn but I'm a slow learner when it comes to this aspect of life.  But at least I come around to realize my error and start looking at seeing and enjoying the simpler things in everyday.  Like the following little moments that happen around me in Spring.

*  I love when the hot air balloons start soaring about in the cooler mornings.  There is something about  where we live and the air currents just pull these little lovelies right across the sky over our neighborhood, just for us to enjoy.  It's even more wonderful when the pilot realizes that no matter how hard they try, they will have to land in the neighborhood, just a few houses down from us.

*  Cool nights mean windows can be left open.  Then when curtains are opened fully in the early morning hours you can find little visitors resting on the window screen.

*  Fragrant smells start coming from all the pretty little blooms popping up around the yard.

*  Pretty little blooms have the most amazing colors.

*  Little bees float around the yard collecting pollen till you think they can't fly any more but they still continue to collect because they just have to.

*  Little buckets on the fence are filled with plants so they can bloom soon with all their bright, beautiful color to stare at while I wonder in the yard.

*  The sun comes up earlier much to my liking so curtains can be flung open to enjoy all the lovely morning light.  And windows are opened fully to get all the wonderful fresh, cool air in the house.

     I can't get enough of these simply little, important things.

~*~

Kar