More chilly temps, more flowers, more beaded edgings

Good morning folks ~ I let Miss Tork out earlier and got shocked by the chilly temps.  I just checked and it’s 53 and feels like it is 46. Brrr.  I’m not complaining though, as this weather is great and summer with it’s heat and humidity will be here all to soon.

Yesterday morning I went to the P.O. to mail some things, then headed to the Goodwill Thrift store as it was Sr. citizens day and we seniors get 25% off. I needed some new shirts to wear to work, and I needed some new pants for working around here and possibly for work also. Well, I ended up finding 4 pair of capri pants, and 4 shirts, plus a book on ‘Cottage Gardening’. With the sr. discount and other discounts I ended getting the nine items for about $1.85 each.  I really like my shirts and my dear husband would like them too, and what a deal.

I’ve made 2 more beaded edgings.  They are such a joy to make. Size 30 fine crochet thread and a size 11 hook.

Since I bought two more orchids for my upcoming bday,  I decided to take pictures of other orchids in bloom right now as well as these. You can read about other bday flowers here.

This is a reed orchid. Very, very easy to grow, it spreads and needs hardly any care at all. It grows all over in my gardens. I’ve had this many, many years and don’t have a clue as to where I got it.

This is a Vanda ‘Miss Joaquim’, you can read about it here. I don’t know where I got this orchid either. Probably the flea market many, many years ago. It also spreads easily and grows really well. These are probably 10 feet tall.

This orchid is from my friend Nanci. We don’t know what kind it is.

This is from my husband’s sister and her husband.

This is an unknown I bought for $5.

The next two are my bday orchids to myself, they were also $5 each. No names came with these.

I need to get going for the day. 

Love and hugs to all of you. May your life be filled with love, joy, peace.

FlowerLady

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“Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.” 
John Ruskin

"Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes."
Duane Michals

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."
Lady Bird Johnson

For, lo, the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come...
Song of Solomon 2:11-12a