Good morning

Good morning Friends ~ What a lovely, cool morning it is. We had gray skies, Sun and Monday, with rain off and on Monday. It was really windy yesterday too.

Hope you all have a lovely Easter week.

This is George Tabor azaleas.

Frangipani

Duchesse de Brabant

Don Juan

Don Juan and Bon Silene growing up over the main garden arbor.

Don Juan

Bon Silene

Mutabilis

Crape Jasmine and Vanda orchids

Borderer

I think these are either Old Blush or Bon Silene.

"Gardening is all about cultivating the senses:

the palette of colors,

the scent of the flowers,

planting for songbirds.

It's the closest I can come to creating peace and solitude."

From: An Affair With a House', by Bunny Williams

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

A heart felt thank you ...

I want to say thank you from my heart to all that visit and leave your kind comments. They mean a lot.

I want to say to Linda, (who visited my blog today, but does not have her own blog for me to visit), that my heart goes out to you for the loss of your mother in January of this year. It was inspiring to read that she loved flowers and gardened up until her 80th year when she could no longer handle the work entailed. Bless her heart.

Different ones have said that the music really touches them, and to me that is great. I wanted the music to be soothing, healing and inspiring and am glad to hear that it is that.

May all of you feel Love, Peace, Healing and Light surrounding you at all times.

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

Continual work in progress

Good evening Folks ~ Thank you all for your posts this past week while I recuperated from my dentist visit. I only had to take two pain pills the first 24 hours, and one Tylenol the next day, that was it. I feel so much better having that tooth out.

Below is one of my gardens which are all a continual work in progress. I am a country girl at heart, growing tropical/cottage gardens where summers are hot and humid and we have the threat of hurricanes until the end of Nov. I garden on a shoe string, loving every minute of it and thankful for my many blessings. The leaning pine tree in the picture is the one that came down into the shed during Wilma. We left this part and use it as support for the awning out over my potting bench. I'll show that another time.

The temps are warming up here. Yesterday it reached the mid 80's and was very humid, so I turned on the a.c. during the day and turned it off in the middle of the night. It was cool when we woke up this morning and was not as humid as yesterday, so the a.c. stayed off.

Hope you all have a lovely Sunday and a great pre-Easter week.

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

Thank you all and good night

Just a quick note to thank all of you for your wonderful healing, well wishes. I'm going to bed to read for awhile. I just took a half of a pain pill, as the first pill has worn off. Will see how a half does. These pills definitely make one feel woozie, hopefully a good night's sleep will make me feel good as new tomorrow.

May you all have a good night and a great day tomorrow.

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL