Aaaaahhhhh

Good morning everyone. It is Monday, partly cloudy skies, very breezy and the temperature is comfortable. No a.c. Hurray!

Here are some pictures I took this morning. It is a joy to go out now that the heat and humidity have lessened tremendously. Rain is in the forecast, along with temps in the 50's during the night Wed. and Thurs. This is the time of year FL living is great.

Hope you all have a wonderful week.

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Bougainvillea and Louis Philippe Roses are shown here in my shed's garden.

Spicy Jatropha or Jatropha integerrima

Plant on a whim.

Lay the footpath where your heart says it should be.

Change things because you feel like it.

Garden for the love of it.

Lindley Karstens

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

Gardening is ...

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction;

natural and instructive,

and as such,

contributes to the most serious contemplation,

experience, health and longevity.

John Evelyn, 1666

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

Joy oh joy - Confederate Rose - Hibiscus mutabilis

Good evening fellow bloggers.

This morning I took a picture of my Confederate Rose bloom, and it was white. When I got home from work this evening, it was pink. It is a single variety of Hibiscus mutabilis and I love it. I grew this from seed this spring and I am thrilled, to say the least, with the resulting plant/blooms. My gardens are sub-tropical, zone 10 in s.e. FL.

Sometimes life can get us down, but all we have to do is take a walk in our gardens and we are lifted up.

Here are the three pictures from today. Tomorrow the flower will be a thing of the past, but not forgotten.

Click on pictures for a larger view.

The foundations of the world are to be found,

not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought,

but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Alfted North Whitehead

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL