Oh my goodness

 

When I posted that ‘eye opener’ post the other day I did not expect all of your wonderful responses. I was really bummed out after watching and listening to that guy tell me what he though about my blog. It was a short video of him using his cursor on your blog page. He sounded sort of like an automaton, but you could tell he was human, he hemmed and hawed and said um too many times to be an automaton.

In hind sight, I figure he’s in his 20’s, some kind of techie stuck in a cubicle all day. He may or not have a life outside of his computer. I also gather that this ‘Peek’ review may be for professionals, not simple bloggers who are sharing their lives, loves, crafts, etc.

All of your comments made me feel so much better and I will just continue as I was doing, although, I did take care of broken links and did away with a couple of pages at the top.

Below are photos I took late in the day yesterday, after supper. Orchids ~ I don’t have names for any of these.

 

 

I call this ‘Doug’s Orchid’ because he gave it to me. He is a customer from where I work. He also gave me a small staghorn fern, both of these given many years ago when he was moving.

  

Air plant ‘Tillandsia’ fasciculata , Frangipani,

Texas Sage and Tibouchina

  

   

These are called Florida cherries, I don’t know the real name.

They are very sour and usually have worms. Ick! The shrub does make a nice thick hedge though.

Fleabane and hisbiscus

  

 

This is the white flowering Thunbergia erecta. I have the purple and also have the light purple flowering Clock vine which is in the same family. The clock vine blooms are in my header picture this time.

   

 

This is Yarrow, second season and I love the feather leaves and the honey scented blooms.

 

This is a Skipper butterfly on an Amaryllis bloom.

I walked around to the other side and got him from this angle.

Here is one of the ‘Skipper’ photos turned into a painting, using the program,

Corel Painter Essentials 4, detailed watercolor setting.

Again, I want to say thank you and how grateful I am for you all . You have been here for me through thick and thin. I appreciate all of the love, prayers, encouragement and support.  It has all helped me in the last 15 months of this new road I am travelling in my life’s journey.

Love and hugs,

FlowerLady

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

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)