Floral Fridays.....

The theme for Floral Friday this month was to choose a favorite garden quote.  This one resonates deeply with me......

via~ Rindy Mae

Life isn't always easy.  I read a quote once that said that bloggers blow sunshine at one another and I had to chuckle a bit.  I guess we do do that but then I really started to think about it and came to my own conclusion.  I think we collectively like to find the beauty in life even when the days are dark.  A good trait among us if I do say so myself!

As September sets in I can feel the change in my garden.  Plants are dying back, seed pods are forming and my annuals are carrying the color in most places.  Little signs that the new season is upon us.

 {Turtlehead-Chelone obliqua}

I miss the newness of my garden but if I've learned one thing in life it's to embrace where you're at.  Change is bound to come.  To have bits of beauty in your life to lift the soul along the way is a pretty awesome thing.  So with that, I leave you with a song about change....

Blind Melon...Change

Make it a great one!

Floral Friday is a monthly photography project with different themes each month. This series is about fun and taking time out to smell the flowers. To play along next time, please email Trishie for next month's theme.

Floral Fridays....foliage...the backbone of the garden

 I look closely at foliage in the garden.  It supports the blooms and remains when they fade, so for that alone, I think that foliage deserves praise and attention.

~my redbud forest pansy transplanted to a sheltered area and thriving~

~sedum after the rain~

~knotweed with its striking variated leaves~

~the fuzzy texture of coreopsis against the dwarf viburnum and weigela~  

~lungwort~

~jackfrost~

~Creeping Jenny~

~swaths of green on a garden walk~

~coleus supporting the back of this flower bed~

~mass plantings to create a serene feeling at a local park~

Happy Gardening!

Floral Fridays is a monthly photography project with different themes each month. This series is about fun and taking time out to smell the flowers. To play along, please email Trishie (trishie@underlockandkeyblog.com) for next month's theme.

Floral Fridays...Flowers as art

Flowers as art.  There is nothing that inspires me more than nature! So when I heard what the theme was this month for Floral Fridays, I was excited to pull out my paints.  One in the works....

Spring Hellebores 

Have a rocking weekend everyone!!!!

Floral Friday is a monthly photography project with different themes each month. This series is about fun and taking time out to smell the flowers. To play along next time, please email Trishie at Under Lock and Key for next month's theme.

Floral Fridays...made me smile

Oh the joys of spring!  My list of loves for the season are a mile long.  Garden digging, plants sprouting, and new adventures beginning!  The theme for Floral Fridays this month is all about blooms that "made me smile."  Looking back at blooms for this post brought me pure excitement of what is to come!

  Though the beans do thoroughly enjoy pulling petals off of our flowers to use as confetti, they also like to collect blooms for bouquets.  And their bouquets are the best!  Innocently put together with their own reasons in mind.  I just wish I had photographed more of their creations.  A new year a new goal!  Peonies and hydrangeas are blooms that they like to cut because in their words, they are "BIG"!  

{some blooms arranged by the beans}

So blooms that make me smile are the ones that I find on our table.

Made by little hands, stuck in different cups or jars, water splattered everywhere, dirt and bugs, sticks, leaves, flowers, and JOY.

Floral Fridays is a monthly photography project with different themes each month. This series is about fun and taking time out to smell the flowers. To play along, please email Trishie (trishie@underlockandkeyblog.com) for next month's theme.

I do hope you will join in with your special blooms!  
Happy weekend everyone!

Floral Fridays....A New Bloom

I have a few plants growing inside this winter like these Paperwhites.  It makes me happy to see growth and green in the dead of winter and reminds me that with these new blooms there are new and exciting possibilities this year in my garden.  To me that is the beauty of gardening.  The possibilities!

I was thrilled when my friend Trishie from the stunning blog Under Lock and Key  invited me to join along in her new monthly blog link-up.   

Floral Fridays is a monthly photography project with different themes each month. This series is about fun and taking time out to smell the flowers!  I know so many of you have a thing for flowers like me, so if you would .like to play along please email Trishie at {trishie@underlockandkeyblog.com} about this fun flower project!!!

Happy Making, Baking, and Growing!!!!