My plants are giving over to the autumn air

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colors, fall, postaday2015

   
   
   
    
 
I was looking forward to my clematis blooming and I wasn’t disappointed,  though I wish the blooms were facing  my backyard and not towards the neighbors. I’m sure they don’t mind the pretty flowers  on they way to their backyard. Autumn is well  on its way here in Blandford. Today we closed the pool, so that is one less item to worry about and the grass was cut, probably for the last time this year.

If you look closely at the picture of my hydrangea, you’ll see little Stanley with his head in one of my hostas. He really likes my plants, he is a tiny thing so I don’t worry, but come next spring, he will almost be a different dog, more like a canine toddler. I’ll definitely be worrying for my poor plants then, that’s  for sure lol.

Actually back to my clematis, I put the protection up around it, far too late to save the first clematis, but next year I may get blooms in early spring as well as late summer. How exciting!

We haven’t even gotten to Halloween and I’m already planning for spring.. What am I to do with myself?  This weekend I am going to make a butternut squash soup, that should put me in the mood to embrace autumn and all of its gifts.

My tulips have awoken!

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colors, gardens, postaday2015, spring

        

When we pulled into the driveway yesterday evening, I was all excited by the sight of my tulips,  standing straight and tall, with the delicate transitional hue of barely there red and almost there yellow, the implications  of full-throated blooms any time soon. My only thought at the moment was to capture it digitally, I was going to say on film, but those days are no longer applicable,  what with my iPad so handy.

I still can’t get over how unbelievably harsh and devastating this past winter was to my poor plants, they seem to be half as plentiful as they used to be prior to the two winters from heck.

I do love the colors, they are so joyous and uplifting, the vibrant greens and the cheerful pinks and blues, puts a smile on my face just looking at the pictures.

Daily prompt: Roy G Biv

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colors, decorations, Hermes, postaday2014

Write about anything you’d like, but make sure that all seven colors of the rainbow — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet — make an appearance in the post, either through word of image.

I think that my Christmas tree, once completely decorated, had all of the colors of the rainbow represented somewhere, I know that I had ornaments that were red, yellow, green, blue and purple, I am not too sure on the orange or indigo though. I had an eclectic melange of decorations; wooden figures, cloth ornaments, colored ribbons, wired ribbons, fragile balls and crystal figurines.

As the month of December progressed, my inbox was deluged on a daily basis with offers from every single retailer imaginable, full of sales and hints as to the perfect Christmas present just an online purchase away. I am sure that every single person reading my words had the same experience. Now aside from the holidays, one of my favorite French design house has always been the house of Hermes. To be quite honest, the name is what attracted me in the first place, Hermes, he is the Greek God of messengers and mischief, also God of thieves and vagabonds, also that of the con man. One of my favorite stories regarding Hermes is how he outwitted his big brother Apollo and then won his affection by creating the first lyre for him and giving it to him as a gift. Zeus who was proud of both of his sons, was especially impressed by Hermes wily nature and while welcoming him with a place on Mount Olympus made him the winged messenger of the Gods. There are so many stories with Hermes, all the Gods loved him for he was eternally good-natured and playful.

But Hermes the store doesn’t have anything to do with Greek Mythology, their heritage is equestrian and they evolved into leather goods, luggage, handbags and accessories, they then branched out into world famous exquisite scarfs and that is what I am going to show you to celebrate the rest of the colors in the rainbow.

On my iPad, I have the Hermes silk Knot app and I look at it every once in a while just to admire the brilliant designs, the talent behind these colors, composition and fabric inspirations is wondrous. I can only imagine what it would be like to work in the atelier at Hermes, fingering the silk, the twill and deciding what design would work with which color, what strand of silk or twill would best compliment the image in the artist’s mind. That would be a beautiful day indeed, spending hours or days in the atelier in Paris, happy days for me.

Colors of summer: the yellows and purples

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blooms, colors, Gardening, postaday2013, purple, yellow

I have been missing my garden with all of the going back and forth between home and Boston, New York and attending our cousin’s wedding. My garden has been a little neglected not only in the weeding department, but I also haven’t had the chance to sit and look at it as much as I like. This being the middle of summer, the yellows are very dominant now, but don’t worry all you purple lovers, there is still a healthy dose of purple blooming out in back. What makes me so happy is when I look at my clematis, it is in bloom once again. I don’t remember ever planting two different varieties of Clematis, there is a spring blooming variety and a summer blooming variety and I have both and funny enough the flowers are the exact same shade.

New plantings purchased today

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colors, Gardening, plantings, postday2013, yellow

I am not planting my new plants today, as soon as we got them home, I watered them and that’s it until Monday. I was serious when I said that I wasn’t going to do anything physical until Monday. I need to rest, I let myself get way too fatigued this week. Just getting the plantings put a smile on my face, the thought of putting them in my planters in the front of the house is exciting, the planters will be so pretty with the colors yellow and green peeping out from the top.

Gardening is a wonderful pastime and a relaxing hobby, it does me a world of good.

Pictures of pink, yellow and purple

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colors, gardens, pictures, postaday2013, spring blossoms

I got all excited to finally see my babies in bloom. I inherited the forsythia from my house’s previous owners but the weeping tree and the azalea, I planted myself. I remember when I brought them both home, dug the holes and watched them grow. They were both small enough to fit in my Subaru, I think that it had to be at least 13 years ago that I introduced them to my backyard.

As I was taking the pictures, my thoughts were swirling around the beauty and uniqueness of each blossom and I was content to simply enjoy and accept the mystery that surrounds the origin of nature’s beauty. I think that part of the reason that I love to garden so much is that I feel that I get to be involved in just a little bit in Mother Nature’s design; watching the plants that you have put in the ground and nurtured, thrive and achieve their best is quite fulfilling.

My last colors of summer

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auto correct, colors, English, fall, French, garden, postaday2012, roses, texting

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When I started gardening years ago, I thought that roses had to be a difficult plant to cultivate. I had always associated roses with expensive tastes, so my thought process went to what I thought was the natural assumption, that since they were expensive they had to be difficult to grow and maintain. Now every year that I work at my garden, I am constantly amazed at how little work roses actually are. I even have an example for you, prior to leaving for France this summer, I thought that I had lost a rosebush in the way back garden due to the weird snow less winter we had. Well I am happy to report that my tale of sadness and woe was greatly exaggerated, my rose bush didn’t die, it just took a long time to put through a new shoot, it’s ALIVE! My roses have kept color going somewhere in my backyard from mid spring to right about now, October 2nd. They brighten my day which I appreciate because I am really not ready for the coming dark and cold winter I think that we will be having shortly.

On a side note, the baby boy made me laugh this evening. The only way to get young people these days is to text them. That is all fine and dandy, but when your fingers tremble and you are battling auto-correct, French can be a little inconvenient. I admit, I got lazy and texted my baby boy in English and a few hours later I received a text from him stating “Mom don’t text me in English, you’re being lazy” I replied in French mind you, that trembling fingers and auto correct make it very tedious. He doesn’t care, as long as his Maman speaks or writes to him in French, that is all that matters. I am very happy that he sticks to his guns, but it does surprise me at times, that he and the baby girl are both so emphatic on my usage of French. I guess  I did my job better than I had hoped.