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A Stroll in the Garden

A continuation from the previous post.

Early spring. Enjoy.

Hyacinth

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Crown Imperial Fritillaria

Scilla/Squill

Lilac

Forsythia

Persian Lily/Fritillaria Persica

Phlox

Dead Nettle/Lamium

Myrtle Spurge/Euphorbia
Daffodil
Spotted Lungwort/Pulmonaria

Azalea

See the world around you!

A Stroll in the Garden

The garden needs a lot more sunshine, and it is early in the season yet.

Let’s take a stroll and see what we can find anyway.

Hyacinth

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Hyacinth

Cyclamen

Grape Hyacinth/Muscari

Scilla/Squill

Peony

Variegated Elderberry/Sambucus Nigra

Bleeding Heart

Orange Candle/Arum Italicum

It seems there is lots of spring growth!

Myrtle Spurge/Euphorbia

So much that I will be sharing more in another post!

Daffodil

Spotted Lungwort/Pulmonaria

Shenanigans are also happening!

Tom Turkey

*Thanks to the Hubster for taking a photo of Tom just before chasing him and the girls out of the garden!

See the world around you!

A Stroll in the Garden

“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow

Tulip

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Tulip

“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” —Laura Stavoe Harm

Fritillaria Persica

“My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. ” —Jodi Picoult

Tulip

“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust

Tulip

“There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” —Elder M. Russell Ballard

Daffodil

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou

Grape Hyacinth

“Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.” —Gilda Radner

Grape Hyacinth

“The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” —Henry Ward Beecher

Lungwort/Pulmonaria

“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” —Lance Conrad

Lungwort/Pulmonaria

“Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” —Reed Markham

Phlox

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” —Michael Jordan

Bleeding Heart/Dicentra

“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” —Mabel Hale

Crown Imperial

“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” —Edwin Chapin

Dead Nettles/Lamium

Stay healthy.

Stay safe.

Keep smiling.

See the world around you!

A Stroll in the Garden

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

Balsam Arrowroot

that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house

Balsam Arrowroot

and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

Balsam Arrowroot

a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies

Balsam Arrowroot

seemed so etched in sunlight
that you felt like taking

Crown Imperial

a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table,

Crown Imperial

releasing the inhabitants
from their snow-covered cottage

Crown Imperial

so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting

Rusted Wheel

into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day.

Daffodil

From Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins

Hyacinth

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Slow Sunday Stitching

“She turned to the sunlight
    And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
    “Winter is dead.”
― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

Daffodil

Today is a great day to slow down and let the daffodils bring cheer to your heart.

I have completed block 10 of Aunt Bea’s Parlor.

Aunt Bea's Parlor - Block 10

So I will be stitching on block 11.  There are 20 blocks total.

Aunt Bea's Parlor - Block 11

I am halfway finished with the embroidery for this project.  If you’d like to see the first six completed blocks, click here.

I am linking up with Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy’s Quilts.