Outdoor Wednesday. Out and about my yard and neighborhood.

Out and about on Outdoor Wednesday

Some old and some new shots.

Our Koi pond is gone but some flowers came back.
Three perfect tulips right outside our kitchen window. 

The Koi pond just before we had it removed.
The pump keep messing up and too many mosquitoes without the water running.
So out it came.
Good memories of it.

Phlox around the huge rock in our front yard.

Not summer yet, but on it's way.

Easter gift from our daughter and her family.

her words
"Mom you said don't bring me any stuff for gifts.
I don't have room for anything else."

She said
"I brought you something you all can eat. So don't let it just hang around."

Not outdoors, but something from outdoors on this Wednesday. I love it.


 

Grands and friends playing volleyball.




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FSO-theme-Early Summer colors

This week our theme is 

Early Summer Colors.

It is the beginning of June and Summer is slowly approaching us. This Friday, share with us the colors the early summer season, in your part of the world.

In our neck of the woods, which is Central Kentucky, USA
One of the very first spring colors to brighten our landscape and lift our spirits is the
Forsythia

This photo was taken at our previous home in about 1997.

When we moved to our new home I tried several times to start a forsythia but someone kept mowing 
them down.
They are very easy to start.
Just pull off a spring and stick it in the ground, and if someone does not mow it down, it will thrive.

Another early bloomer is the
Rhododendron.

Mine faces the east, gets the morning sun and is in shade the rest of the day.
Just what it likes.

Love me some petunias.

Periwinkle is a ground cover and blooms early.
Will stop blooming as it gets hotter.

All the stores have their colorful displays outside.

Ever faithful
Daylily
Blooms all summer long.

 Crocus comes very early.

 Tulips always bloom before Easter.

 Looking forward to Knock Out Roses, hydrangea,
Coreopsis and crepe myrtle as it gets warmer.



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.Share the JOY Thursday

Set these tulips out about 6 years ago.

They have bloomed every year since.

This year one lonely tulip.

I still take such JOY from that beautiful tulip.

Happy Spring.

Easter Flowers from our daughter and family who will not be with us this Easter.

The other family's turn.

More flower JOY.

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Happy Easter everyone.

Hope springs eternal. Share the Joy

Oh the JOY of tulips
They make my heart sing
New life, a new spring

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

-Alexander Pope,   
An Essay on Man, Epistle I, 1733

Also linking up with
Vintage Thingy Thursday

Found this old tiny frame in one of my searches through my stash for old jewelry to use in my art and craft making.
It was my mother's.
There is no date or other mark on it but I know she had it a long time.
I made this yarn bombed rock and trimmed it with some gold and placed my granddaughter's wedding picture in it for a little birthday surprise for her.

Go visit Coloradolady for more fine things   


Go here and find JOY for your day

 

Tulips are up

Happy Spring y'all !!!!!!!!!

I had been watching my tulips as they progressed in their spring show.

 Photo taken March 15, 2011

 Haven't gotten to weeding this area as can be seen.

I hate to pull up those cute little weeds with the purple blooms on them.

Especially since my favorite two colors together are purple and green.

 This morning when HH went out to feed the birds he came in with this announcement.

"Tulips are out." 

Now that is in the back and I was a little disappointed they were out just yet since our family will all be here at Easter and I was hoping they would be in their glory at that time.
However, there is a group in the front that are not out yet that may just about hit it right.

 I like for these to be in bloom at Easter since our children planted them one year at Easter.
Alleluia.

 The creeping phlox will be just right by Easter 

Sunday.

Want a real treat?
Go visit 
Ima Weed
at Weedy Acres Home
Have a REAL SPRING treat.

Sunshine in the winter and flowers peeping out

On the news today the weather man in the city showed beautiful pansies growing outside the station. 

Of course pansies can tolerate the cold but it was almost 60 degrees in Ky, today.

Went out for a walk and here is what I found.

Tulips

The weatherman also said rain was to begin at midnight and probably rain all day tomorrow.

I have to go out to a meeting and I guess I will be dancing in the rain.

Outside our kitchen window this morning.

Each day gets a little more daylight and that means spring is on it's way.

Oh happy day

Jingle Poetry and Mosaic Monday

Potluck Poetry for Monday

A Closer Look

Where are you, my heart?

Where are you, my soul?

I cannot find you any more.

I looked at him and I looked at her.

No, that's not what I want to see.

I searched down deep and poked around.

It hurt so much I turned back.

Halfway back I looked at nee.

No, not Mrs. or Miss could I see.

I only see what I had tried to be.

As I backed out of the hole I dug,

I heard myself say

"Here I am!"
"Look at me!"

"Here I am?"

Where did that spring from, this searching day?

I looked asky and I looked aground.

Nowhere could I be found.

I turned and saw a face aglow,

Absent of all worry and woe.

Because I looked just when I did,
Straight ahead.

Now I am found.

Peggy Jones

4/17/2011

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 Mosaic Monday


What a wonderful time to be outside clearing away the dying and preparing for the new blooming flowers and shrubs coming on.

1) Clematis 

2) Hydrangia

3) Purple Iris

4) Creeping phlox

Red and Pink tulips
Coming and going.

Thank goodness there is always color appearing in our world.

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