Showing posts with label stone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stone. Show all posts

Thursday, May 11, 2017

The Season of Flowers


Don't you just love Spring and then Summer when all the flowers just
come alive?! Our Heavenly Father sure knows how to put on a show!!

 I usually buy quite a few flowers, but this year I have cut
back because my old body just can't handle it all anymore.
I have been having pain in my arms and hands and that doesn't help either.
So it may become weed heaven around here this year. lol.


Isn't this color gorgeous!!??
This is one of the lilac trees that is growing in my yard. We purchased and planted this a
 few years ago and thank God it is still alive. We seem to have an issue with trees living that
we plant so I am counting my blessings. 


It seems to me that she blooms profusely about every other year and the years in between
it has a very few blooms. Do most lilacs do this or maybe just until they get established well?
I don't know, but I am thankful this is a good year.


This is one of my columbines. I also have one that is called:
Grandmothers Bonnet 
that looks exactly like a bonnet, but that one is not blooming yet.
I promise to share when it does.



We planted a small hydrangea plant in this spot that was sent by my sister and her family for Eden's
 funeral last year and now I have an angel and a stone to stand beside it. My daughter gifted the angel
stone to me and I think it is so pretty.  I hope the hydrangea lives! Sometimes I have plants
  that do wonderful for a couple years and for no reason they just don't come back.
 It is weird. Praying that this one survives!

Speaking of...please remember our family next Sunday. {May 21}. It will be one year on that date
since Eden went to heaven and it will be a hard day. I have some simple things planned such
as balloon release etc., but we miss her so very much and so wish she were here. In some ways
it seems like forever ago and others it seems like just yesterday.
She is our beautiful angel Eden Rain.


Isn't this handmade stump neat? I don't remember what the process is called, but I guess you
use rags to make it? Not sure, but I love it.


LOVE this container that my violas are planted in. I purchased this container with the plant in it
at a Spring Show and it is doing wonderful.


This is our second lilac tree/bush. Actually, I have two this color. Isn't it such a soft color?
 I just dug up "starts" from around another bush and replanted and they are doing every bit
as well as the large ones I purchase in a greenhouse.


Some pretty lilacs I brought inside a few weeks ago.
I just can't get enough of them!

What flowers are out at your house? Do you have a green thumb? I would
love to hear about it.
Until next time...Blessings!

Monday, October 21, 2013

Historical Church Tour...St Joseph's Shrine


I picked up a couple of flyers for driving tours and we set out on Sunday to see what we could find.
One was a fall colors driving tour and the other was a historical church driving tour . Truthfully we
strayed from the fall colors tour because it was a bust and we found much more color on our own.

This was the neatest church on the historical church tour. We have passed by this place many
 times over the years when we would drive north to visit our daughter, but we had never stopped.

  All I can say is WOW...you would never know all this beauty existed beyond the road!


I will let the photos speak for themselves...{at least most of the time}








Pretty breathtaking so far... 











I fell in love with this door



Yours truly on one of the paths




We were just in awe walking through this courtyard. You would never know all this {and MORE} is here
 because you walk down a sidewalk at the back of the church and then descent a very long and steep
staircase to the lakeside below where all these statues and stone work are located. AMAZING! {and I
didn't include all the photos}

I hope you enjoyed your brief tour today.
Blessings~