Morning Backyard Stroll

Summer is my least favorite season -- don't like the heat!

Recent rain and an overcast morning sky
gave way to a cooler morning!

It was comfortable enough to sit outside on our
patio and sip a cup of 'hot' coffee.

Belle & George focused their morning activity
pursuing chipmunks.

I snapped a few backyard photos and
comfortably sipped on a 2nd cup of 'hot' coffee.

Morning dew drops

While it was a really nice morning, I anxiously await Autumn!

May Gardens

For flowers that bloom about our feet;

For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;

For song of bird, and hum of bee;

For all things fair we hear or see,

Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Isn't May supposed to be Springtime?

Our Spring lasted a couple of weeks before it was consumed

with the intolerance of Summer heat...and it was only May!

Today, June 2nd is a cooler day following

overnight thunderstorms.

Sipping my coffee this morning while enjoying the cool rainy air

on our sun porch, I see last night's thunderstorm downed two large branches

in our backyard and left my flowers drenched and bent over.  

Most, if not all the flowers should bounce back.  

I hope they do as they

have been beautiful this year...

The earth laughs in flowers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Finally it's Springtime

So delighted Spring has arrived! 

Spring flowers around our home...wished these bloomed through Autumn

(collage of front porch urns edited together)

Welcome Spring!

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"Hark, I hear a robin calling!
List, the wind is from the south!
And the orchard-bloom is falling
Sweet as kisses on the mouth.

In the dreamy vale of beeches
Fair and faint is woven mist,
And the river's orient reaches
Are the palest amethyst.

Every limpid brook is singing
Of the lure of April days;
Every piney glen is ringing
With the maddest roundelays.

Come and let us seek together
Springtime lore of daffodils,
Giving to the golden weather
Greeting on the sun-warm hills."
-  Lucy Maud Montgomery, Spring Song

Earth Laughs in Flowers

Last Spring I purchased two amazing vintage flower urns from an estate sale.  The original owners had buried the bottom section of these urns in the ground which caused a lot of rust.

To preserve the cast iron urns I had to clean and repaint them.  I chose to paint them close to their original color which is a matte charcoal black.  They are so heavy - it takes two people to move them.

 

I meant to take before, during and after photos, but forgot and only took the after photos.  They really turned out well and should now endure many years 

Pink was the annual color that grab my heart this Spring 

"Earth Laughs in Flowers"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Delight in the beauty that surrounds you

Today was a beautiful day ~  Take a peek at the beauties in my yard... 

(click on photos to enlarge images)

Nature will bear the closest inspection.  She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.  ~Henry David Thoreau