Harvest Rainbows...

Blossoms of Garden Flora

Late Summer...

White and delicate.

Lacy and petite.

Soft, soothing and restorative.

Blossoms of garden flora.

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Don't you just love roses?

The delicate intricacy of they stamen,

the velvety softness of each petal,

the intoxicating and heady fragrance...

You really should take a minute to stop and smell the roses.

I bet it would change your whole day!

my self seeded ornamental poppies

I have let the poppies go.

Underneath all of that foliage and flower there are vegetables fighting to have space.

Luckily the poppies are passing and soon I can harvest the seeds, dry pods and pull the rest out giving the garden back to the vegetables again!

But they sure are beautiful.

Do you have a garden?

What are you growing?

thank goodness for the flowers and the sea

There has been a lot going on around here lately.

Emotionally, in my head, in my life, and so on...

Some things are trying to shift,

but I am not sure yet when, where or if they are going.

I am trying to remember that everything will work out in the end although it doesn't quite feel that way at the moment.

Either way, I am happy to see the elder flowers in bloom.

Elder is one of my favorite herbs and I always am happy to go berry gathering when they are ripe.

I always love making syrup and adding them to pies...

Oh elder, how I love you!

I love looking at their lacy flowery umbels.

Do you have a favorite herb?

I also love the rosa rugosa (beach rose) that is abundant around here.

I have some sitting out just now, transitioning from a solar infusion to a lunar infusion.

I will be so happy to drink it all up tomorrow!

Peonies

Take a nap in a bed of peony petals...

In the Secret Garden.

There are finally flowers,

big and small...

And vivid colors,

emerging as each day passes.

Colors on the ground,

and on surfaces unyielding.

Makes my senses quiver with joy!