Halcyon Days of Summer!

I am taking it easy this weekend, counting my blessings and getting a little R & R!

A favorite watercolor by Holly Kitaura of Hawaii. Picked up on one of our trips to that state.
This lady represents how I sometimes feel (there is a subliminal message in this painting)
 and it hangs in my kitchen.

BETTER DAYS IN THE GARDEN!

LAST WEEK I RELATED THE SAD SAGA

OF THE AMARYLLIS

Well there are other areas of the garden that were not touched by the lawn guy.

Answer The Door!!

What do you do when the doorbell rings?

Well, I say "Bob can you get the door?"

 I would strongly advise, If someone rings your doorbell...answer it!

 You see, I don't often get flowers delivered from the florist.

Some of you may remember, Bob brings me FREE, flowers.

Hey, they're still flowers . You can read about them

Here, here , here, here, and here.

DOES BAILEY LOVE COFFEE??

Well, Coffee Loves Bailey's

A few years ago, I saw a blog that posted a New Year's Eve dinner where the hostess served coffee in these cups!

GARDEN SURPRISE

Our community is a protected wildlife area. 

We have our own Department of Natural Resource agent. He is only a phone call away and available

to all our residents.

Our community is home to a multitude of deer who share the garden landscape with the residents. We plant it, they eat it. There is an abundance of opossums, racoons, shorebirds, song birds, migrant birds, rabbits, snakes and alligators.

One is always careful when stepping into the garden.

Yesterday, I found a surprise in our rear yard just outside the garden gate.

Desert Rose Tablescape

                      

Thank you so much for your prayers, emails and kind conversation. I always knew bloggers were special people, even before I started blogging. Your kindness is uplifting and I treasure your friendship.

I plan on staying inside and lying low for the next couple of week. I will repost a couple of things and a couple of you have agreed to do a guest post for me.

Today I am reposting a tablescape I did last spring with my Desert Rose pattern by Franscisan. Most of it is vintage although I purchased it new. I stopped buying when Franscisan sold out and the new stuff got UGLY!

I hope you will enjoy this beautiful pattern and my interpretation

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011

IT'S SPRING AT MY HOUSE!!!

It is getting warmer and we have had 

a few beautiful days.

It was beautiful yesterday. I left for therapy early so I could go by GW. I have said before that our GW never has anything. I went anyway. 

As luck would have it I found this Longaberger look alike for on $1.00. Not quite the LB quality but really nice. For $1.00 it was going home with me.

I had planned to use this Irish runner buy decided to use it next week. Nice little basket, yes?

I like the way the handle curves

Sturdy for $1.00

I stopped at Kroger and picked up some Primrose for my centerpiece.  Bob came today bringing his free flowers, Pink Roses. That's when I decided to change what I had planned for the tablescape. I decided to use my Franciscan Desert Rose.

I used the pink roses and the primrose. 

I love these green and white placements. I think, in blog lingo, this is a vintage, chippy and shabby charger.

I added my vintage Franciscan Desert Rose dinner plate. I hate the new stuff they are selling. Won't buy it.

Pink salad plate

Forgot to get a pic of just the rimmed soup. Added linen and crochet, starched, napkin and yellow rose ring.

I love the Wallace sterling flatware, Waltz of Spring

Bob's free roses, forsythia and greenery from the yard.

I ended up using the primrose 

I have enough serving pieces to enjoy using them often, serving most anything. This would be a typical setting with family in the kitchen. I did a similar table with the same china for my daughter,

Kim, the last time she was in town.

Purchased votive holders during after Christmas sales.

The water goblets were a thrift store find. Pattern unknown. Only had four.

This is my favorite pic. I think I used it twice. That's OK, it's my fairytale.  Love the napkin rings, I got them from ebay. Ebay is gooooood.

relish dish was thrift store find

Bob thought this was a real rose. Our eyes are failing you know!

I just love the napkin rings. Did I say that before? The napkins are vintage. I think they go well with the charger.

I hope you have enjoyed my "Ode to Spring"

I am joining the following gracious hostesses

Feathered Nest Friday
Flaunt It Friday
Feature Yourself Friday
It's A Hodgepodge Friday
Inspiration Friday
Show and Tell Friday
Fridays Unfolded
Vintage Inspiration Friday
Home Sweet Home
Thrifty Things Friday
Pink Saturday
Saturday Nite Special

Azaleas In Savannah

 They were glorious this Spring!

For the last three weeks we have been blessed 

with a magnificant display of our beloved 

Azaleas at their peak.

As you can see I got carried away 
with this large Bumble Bee.

 

 

 

 

Due to the warm winter the flowers were several weeks early but made a wonderful appearance for our
Saint Patrick's guests.
Alas, with the Azaleas comes the pollen. It has been early and heavy this year. Maybe that means it will be finished sooner.

I took all these pictures after a terrible windstorm. I think it was the one causing havoc in the rest of the country. I knew if I didn't capture some of the blossoms during the lull they would gone for sure.

 

We have many pines so therefore lots of pollen and pinestraw. We have never had to purchase pinestraw but we could sell some pollen.

That is our dog, Elvis, in the background. That is pollen on his back.

 The next three pics are my son's dog.
R. D. (red dog)

 R. D. has a fetish about plastic bottles. He saw this on the counter a couple of days ago 
and begged for said bottle.

As you can see, Elvis is well behaved. I don't know if it shows up or not but the porch is covered in yellow pollen.  All fabric items are inside for the duration.

When empty and rinsed he will carry it around for hours. Big ones like this he has to carry by the cap.
After hiding and retrieving it from several locations he will begin to crush it (You, know that commercial?). We are very careful and take it away once the surface has been broken. He doesn't want to bite through it,
 just crush it and make lots of noise.


Just like Savannah in the Spring.
A little pink! A little green!


Have a wonderful weekend
A 
Color Connection
A 
Wordless Wednesday 
and  
Happy Pink Saturday!