Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

Tomorrow is a special day here as we celebrate motherhood so I wanted to pop in and wish you all Happy Mother's Day.

This is a beautiful little book celebrating the joys of motherhood-it is full of lovely quotes and poems.

I hope you will enjoy your day.

The mother and baby ornament by Global is a treasured gift from my husband celebrating the birth of one of our children.

I love mother and baby pictures and the one above is one I especially love of our youngest daughter and her daughter Lila (a few years ago).

Where did the time go??? This is a picture of me with our seventh child when he was a wee one-I miss those days!!!

Mother's Day is one of my favorite days of the year- as my children " rise up and call me blessed" - right kiddos???

I am looking forward to a family brunch at our house tomorrow and it is supposed to be warm and sunny-yeah!

Laurie at Heaven's Walk wrote the most beautiful touching story on her blog and I know you will enjoy taking a few minutes to check it out. Laurie has a real gift with words and her whole blog is beautiful!

Happy Mother's Day!

Carolyn

A Garden Vignette

Hello everyone,

       I have been a bit scarce lately as there is so much going on right now. Hopefully,I will soon have lots to share for you gardener's anyway as the garden starts to fill in more and the lilacs etc. begin to bloom. We got some much needed rain the last couple of days so we took a trip to some garden centers to have a look at some new plants. I found this cute little boot at Cool Breeze in Summerside and had to take it home with me.

I planted it up and put it in our sun room for now.

It is a great spot to enjoy getting some new ideas from my garden books.

A cup of tea makes it even more enjoyable.

Take a break , sit and enjoy for a spell too!

I am joining Bernideens Tea Time Blog for Tea in the Garden and also French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday.

Thank you for visiting,

Carolyn

Happy Sunday

Hello everyone,

   I hope you are enjoying your weekend. I finally took some time to take some pictures for you.I like the little garden vignette above but it is still early in our garden for getting good shots but each day we move forward a little bit. We seem to be having a drier spring with more sunshine but the temperature has been cold at night. Now, that the full moon is past I am hoping it warms up a little.

On Friday evening we drove by these lovely barrels full of colorful tulips so I had to get out and take a few pictures of them.

I love these vibrant colored tulips for the spring garden but the rest of the season I am not so much an orange fan.

On another street downtown a small front yard garden was covered with blooming spring bulbs. They must have their garden well layered because it has good color most of the season which is harder to do in a small space.

I spent some time playing with my dishes again.

A pretty bouquet from our garden-I am happy to have some tulips blooming now along with the thousands of daffodils.

I was lazy this morning and enjoyed looking through some old Victoria magazines before church and didn't go for my walk so I am off to do that now before my brother and sister in law come for a visit.

Thank you for stopping in to visit!

Take care,
Carolyn

Early Spring Garden

Hello everyone,

      I hope you are having a good week. We are spending a lot of time in the garden getting it ready for our first tour from Japan in a couple of weeks. I took some photos in the garden today so you can see what is blooming now. It is coming along and a couple of weeks will make a big difference,I hope.

It is lovely to have lots of daffodils for cheery bouquets in the house.

I love to eat outdoors as soon as the weather warms up.

Pansies blooming in a pretty bowl.

I love these white and apricot daffodils.

A pretty spring teapot.

Just a few shots of our early spring garden.

I have to admit all this gardening makes me look forward to a good hot soak and early to bed!

I am joining My Romantic Home for Show and Tell today and The Rose Garden in Malevik for Show Off Saturday.

Thank you for visiting,

Carolyn

White Wednesday

Hello everyone,

      It was a great day here for doing garden cleanup so we spent the day edging beds, weeding,pruning, and transplanting. So...., no time for playing with my camera again so sorry more previously viewed pics again.

I am joining in White Wednesday today.

My snowball bush from last year- it is just starting to leave out now so it will be weeks before it blooms.

Fluffy white plumes on one of the grasses at my daughters. I like how pretty it looks against a blue sky.

Our little garden cottage.

I love hyacinths and also the little fairies.

I am looking forward to these all blooming in our garden soon.

Another  view of the cottage.

Cake anyone?

I couldn't resist adding this tea photo of our two little grandchildren.

A creamy rose with a hint of green.

I hope you enjoyed some of my whites for White Wednesday over at Faded Charm.

Thank you for visiting,

Carolyn