Everything is blooming the colour of yellow & purple with green leaves & stems!
It was pouring rain outside when I took this photo but you can see the miniature purple iris in full bloom with the yellow lilies behind them.\
I picked flowers from one of the side yard gardens with the yellow/purple iris, the allium greens we eat in our eggsalad sandwiches & a yellow blooming flower that Bill keeps pulling out & insisting that it is a weed. I like it for its colour & how delicate it is.
Lupins & bleeding hearts, & bachelor buttons fill the anniversary garden with their colour & unique flowering texture.
How glorious now that summer has arrived & this burst of life has emerged!
The bumble bees are back enjoying the garden too!
The lilacs are nearly done for another year, but I have heard of a new bread of lilac called a Double Bloom & it will bloom twice!
The peonies are reaching for the sun & the ants are coming in to help them open up, soon these too will be in bloom once again!
It is such a joy to walk around the house & view the life that has been hidden with snow all these months! The white pom-pom bush is singing its praises too!
The lamb's ear that outlines the back deck has really taken off this year. I cannot help but touch the soft velvety texture of this beauty, the flower is a soft mauve that the bees adore!
The scent of something has got Bridget & Baxter's interest as they sniff it out.
The corner of the deck is the harshes with the nor'easters & the harsh winds but many have survived, we'll replant some more there since the large deceased evergreen is now a Gnome Home & sun can reach the new batch.
Bill has started the cedar shingled roof & it is quite detailed so this will be time-consuming for him on top of all the other summer chores & working full time.
Lilies are beginning & flowering in other areas where the sun reaches them more.
This is our kitchen garden of alliums in the backyard.
It is also by the back deck, the plant will grow anywhere!
Out Of Province Company!
Jim & Karen Cole came for a visit of 6 days & what fun we had! I had not seen them since their last visit in 2019.
Karen & I had so many laughs together, she too is a quilter & artist.
I told her I like to learn a new art form every year so this year she taught me, latch hooked rug making with the gizmo that looks like a crotchety hook at one end and a very large needle eye at the other!
And I taught her stained glass another art form of colour & design with a different medium & she loved it & did it very easily!
Karen chose an art deco design & her glass colour was beautiful!
Once the black patina goes on the colour & texture jump out!
I worked on finishing a student's work that was never finished.
It is now ready for the sun to shine through it!
I made a mug rug with one-inch fabric strips to make this blue beauty! I like the look of the wrapped cloth & plan on making a whole rug with it this winter. Now I have the basics of starting & finishing it!
Shuffling around my studio area I found a pattern that I made for our eldest son & will make it for him this year! I promise Donald...by the end of 2023 it with have the sun shine through it! xXx
The sun coming through my student's wonderful colour choice for her tulip!
Bill is enjoying his zero-turn lawn mower & feels that it could cause me or the property harm, so I was never given a lesson about it.
It is a lot of lawn to keep mowed the way he likes it & I do enjoy looking out & seeing the mowed look as I view Miramichi Bay.
I'm ready for the next company this Friday of our eldest son & his childhood friend Jon Cole, who is no relation to our company that has left. We have not seen Jon for decades, it will be fun!!
These purple flowers are so pretty with the red geraniums. I'm seeing purple as one of my new summer colours, it so makes me think of my girlfriend/quilting buddy Paulette. I made a purple quilt once & could not stop thinking of her, so I gave it to her, and she loved it!
Our laneway is an 800-foot one but well worth the travel up it to say hello & view the beauty that this gorgeous Beaver Moon has to offer.
He's sitting on the front porch to welcome you!
Have a wonderful week & enjoy this fast short season & all it has to offer!
A fun saying my son taught me - 'Look through the windshield it is a lot larger to see ahead than the review mirror behind you.'
Oh so true with the seasons!
Cynthia xXx
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Oh, sweet Kyrotine, it's really bloom time in your near-the-Bay- Paradise off the beaten path. 800 feet is is a good distance from the road...
ReplyDeleteI love those glass staines pieces. You do such beautiful things.
Here's it's weeds and more weeds. I just can't keep up, lol... I've been weeding and picking potato bugs and squishing the eggs and their layers, not to speak of the cucumber beetles. They are prolific this year with the kind of weather we are having. But life is good as we are getting rain which is so needed somewhere else.
Happy Sunday,hugs.
Julia