Mostly Macros

Good morning Friends ~ Here it is another Friday.  Time is zipping right along.

We had thunderstorms yesterday afternoon, which has given us another blast of cool air and for that I am grateful.  It is supposed to get down to 53 and feel like 48 tonight.

This post is filled with mainly macros, hence the title of this post.

First is not macro though and  is a photo of our big palm with the morning sky behind. 

Ok, here we go for the blooms.

Azaleas

Sweetly scented begonias with big round leaves.

This is a Clerodendrum that we down here call ‘Bleeding Hearts”

This is a buddleia that I’ve had almost a year now and it is still alive and growing

This is gazania or blanket flower. Self sows and a winner in my humble cottage gardens.

Ground orchid blooms

This is an unknown orchid bought last spring.

Mexican Heather

Hibiscus

Panama Rose

Penta blooms

Lowly periwinkles that grow like a weed down here in s.e. FL.

I have pink and white.

Mexican Petunia

Spanish needle blossom

Spicy Jatropha

Thunbergia erecta  in purple and white. I love the yellow throats.

This is related to the clock vine

Spiderwort

Trailing Lantana

Vanda orchids

Yarrow

Miss T

On November 17 2012, when my dear husband was ill and a couple of weeks before he went to his heavenly home, I came home from work and as always headed straight for the bedroom to check on him. He said to me, “The verse of the day is, ‘Cast all your care upon Him’.

That verse is still a verse for me each and every day. The Him in this verse is God, and the rest of the verse says, ‘for He careth for you’.

I had this in my mind to write before I headed off to work this morning, but didn’t have time to get it all done.

This verse was perfect for me today because when I got to work I found out that my friends next door had been hit by thieves right after I left yesterday afternoon. They have two shops next to each other, and she had gone to the other shop where her husband and nephew were, leaving her purse sitting in her desk chair, which is behind a partition. We were having stormy weather then too and she was in the other shop a few minutes. When she got back her purse was gone, her lap top computer and their two cell phones.  They called the cops and they came to get the info. There is a surveillance camera up on a building across the street and later the cops called to say they had seen a vehicle and a couple that looked suspicious to them. I also had a suspicious message left on the answering machine where I work asking what time we close, and reported it to my friends and they told the cops.  They told my friend to come over to see if she could get the number off my phone there, she did, so maybe that will help in the case.

I do not want to be scared to go to work. This news is one of the cares that came into my life that I am to cast upon Him. Worry accomplishes nothing!

Say a prayer for my friends that things will work out for them with this. They got in touch with their bank, credit card people etc. The husband said it’s awful because they feel so violated. They were both exhausted when I left this afternoon, from the stress of it all.

Love and hugs to all of you,

FlowerLady

Flowers galore

 

Good afternoon dear Friends ~ It is a few minutes after 4 p.m. EST in s.e. FL. The skies are dark to the south, and thunder is rumbling in the distance.  Monday morning we had heavy rains with flooding in some areas getting over 5 inches of rain, then in the middle of the night we had a slow moving thunderstorm with torrential rains which brought more rain.  I prayed and read for awhile, waiting for the storm to pass over, finally it did and all was quiet again.

My heart goes out to all who have lost family, loved ones, homes and businesses with these tornadoes that ripped through their area. The pictures and videos are heart breaking. May God be with these people as they go about rebuilding their lives, and continuing on, even with heartbreak. Rough times are ahead, especially with the grief and the missing of loved ones.

It is devastation like we are seeing from these storms that make me appreciate so much, even with my own loss, as, I haven’t lost everything.         I am thankful for our little haven.

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Below are some of the flowers from the last couple of days.

Spiderwort, with Borderer in the background. Spiderwort is so ‘easy’ to grow.  Some consider it a weed and a nuisance. Not me.

This is Thryallis.  A wonderful shrub that gets pretty large.  I saw it at the botanical gardens and their specimen is huge. The flowers sweetly scent the air. Mine is in a pot right now.

Whirling butterflies.

Here is the morning glory bush cutting in the early morning in the scullery window. It’s barely light outside. I like how the light from the overhead light is shining down on the blooms. (By the way, nice roots formed on this so I planted it in a pot today.)

Here it is a few hours later with the bright outdoor light behind. This is more the true color.

This is the wonderfully scented unknown lavender rose I bought recently.

Here it is on the left, with the McCartney rose on the right.

This little sweetie is ‘Kathleen’ one of my very favorites and bought many, many years ago. She has a delicate sweet scent.

Here is ‘Borderer’.

An early morning view in the scullery.  This is what I come out to when I make coffee in the mornings, sometimes it’s darker out and sometimes lighter, depending on when I wake up.  This part of our kitchen is a dream come true and I love it. We took out a wall between the kitchen and the utility room and renamed that new space the ‘scullery’, definition~ a place where dishes are washed and food is stored. As an aside, DH worked in the Navy scullery when he was in boot camp in 1969, washing dishes.  He also voluntarily washed dishes in our scullery too.

I wash dishes looking out into the ‘secret garden’, pure delight.  Thank you dear husband for your skills in making this dream become a reality, and in all the other dreams we built around here. I enjoyed being your ‘helper’ all through our years together and this project was one of my very favorites. It made our cottage seem so much bigger.

Look at the sweet reflection in the window.

 

is Forever

FlowerLady

Thy mercy,
O LORD,
is in the heavens;
and thy faithfulness
reacheth unto the clouds.
Psa_36:5

Mid May blooms

 

Consider the lilies how they grow:

they toil not,

they spin not;

and yet I say unto you,

that Solomon in all his glory

was not arrayed like one of these.

Luke 12:27  (KJV)