Today's blooms

Good morning everyone. Hope you are all doing well. I'm sure many of you are really ready for spring to get here.

Our week or two of really cold weather burned plants so that leaves have fallen all over the place, but there are still blooms happening.

I've not been outside much with the cold weather, and now that it's nicer, I'm working at my job 4 days this week.

Being inside at home during the cold spell, I worked on a beaded embroidery piece. For those of you interested, the blog post can be found here

The first picture I can't remember the name of the plant, but the scent of this is sweetly wonderful. Can be a bit overwhelming if too many of these are in bloom at once though.

This I think is Old Blush.

This is Mother of Millions not quite blooming yet.
I'll take another picture when they buds are open.

This is Homere.

Blue sage

That's it for now.
I've got to start thinking about heading off to work.
Have a great day whatever you are doing.

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

My 'bead ship' came in.

Yesterday when I got home from work, I saw a pkg. sitting in my chair. It was from a dear online friend in Idaho. She knows I'm into beaded embroidery these days and last week she emailed me saying my 'bead ship' was in. She said she had more than enough to last two life times so would be sending me some of her stash. She mailed the pkg. Monday and yesterday (Wednesday) it was here. We were both surprised at that.

I changed clothes, poured DH and I a glass of pre-dinner wine, and opened the pkg. and couldn't quit smiling and ooohing and aaahing over it all. I am thrilled and I am grateful for her gift. DH said your 'bead ship' definitely did come in.

Here are pictures for those of you who are interested and can relate to my excitement and joy.

She even sent me a great selection of embroidery floss,
a quilter's pencil for drawing onto dark fabrics,
some thread winders,
and a beaded head piece.

Look at all these beads, the colors are beautiful.
I can hardly wait to get started with using them.

Here I sorted them into colors. Wow!

So, if you don't see me much, you'll know what I'm doing. :-) Plus, we're working on a screened room off the back of our little cottage, and I'm revamping the inside of my little 6'x8' shed, which is gardening, laundry and crafts.

It is much warmer today than it has been. I am going to try to get some laundry washed and hung out, make a savory chicken pot pie, make more bread, hand water some plants, and see what else might come my way.

Have a great day wherever you are, whatever you do.

FlowerLady

No snow, but we do have ice!

Good morning folks ~ hope you are all keeping warm. Earlier this morning it was 30 feeling like it was 16, it's around 33 right now at almost 10 a.m. and still feels like it's 16. The wind is from the NW at 22 mph. It is bitterly cold outside and we are NOT used to this at all. The sky is gray and the sun in 'trying' to come out from behind clouds. DH saw the ice first, so I grabbed the camera, put on a scarf, hat and my heavy jacket and went out to take some pics. Not wonderful or spectacular, but we do have ice in s.e. FL. Some in the middle to northern part of the state, did get snow.

We did not stay outside very long at all. Inside our cottage it is 64 as we did not keep the radiant heat heater on during the night. We were snug as a couple of bugs on our tempurpedic mattress (which holds your body heat), under a couple of quilts.

I really didn't walk around to check out the plants as it is just too miserable being out there in the wind. The sun is shining in the window now, hurray. Here's a picture of sunshine on my workspace with threads and projects.

The next two pictures so ice in our bird bath.

This picture is of raindrops that turned to ice drops
on a screen that blew over in the back yard.

The next two pictures are of a puddle of water that also turned to ice. You can see the leaves stuck in it too. While we were standing in this area we kept hearing a clicking noise and it was ice drops on the ends of the palm leaves that were brushing up against the gutter.

From what I could tell of the few roses that I checked out they are doing fine. Some of the tropical plants may have burned leaves, I'll be able to tell more when I go out when it warms back up.

Have a nice day and be warm ~ FlowerLady

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

Brrr, brrr, brrr.

It is cold down here! Right now at around 12:45 it is 51, this morning when we got up it was 35 and with the windchill factor felt like it was 24. We're not used to this kind of weather. Too cold for me to work outside, so I've been working inside. Homecaring (dusting, vacuuming, dishes etc.), more embroidery bead work, baking a loaf of apple bread, and cooking up some cranberries. I did go out to take some pictures this morning to share with you all.

Here are the cranberries and the apple bread.

St. Francis and Louis Philippe roses.
I love the shadows on the shed.

Maman Cochet

Copperleaf shrub, I love the sunlight on the leaves.

Here is my blue bottle bouquet.
Sunlight looks great hitting those too.

This is my latest bead/embroidery work.

To see the piece finished, click here

That's it for now. Hope you all are having a great week, whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whatever your weather.

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL