Everyday Living

April & May In The Garden

~ Flowers, Gardening, Spring

Happy Thursday dear friends! Join me for a stroll in and around the garden!

“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭26‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ ‭(ESV‬‬)

According to Proven Winners, Double Play Doozie spirea is better than great – it’s a doozie! I wholeheartedly agree! We planted three a couple of years ago where two of our Adagio Maiden grasses had once been. We also planted one in a large container.READ MORE

A Mother’s Love

~ Monday Morning Blooms, Mothers Day, Tablescapes

Hello sweet friends and Happy Monday! This coming Sunday, May 11th is Mother’s Day which has always been a very special day for our family!

“She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭31‬:‭26‬ ‭(ESV‬‬)

I enjoy the simplicity of setting a table next to our woodlands. The trees provide a wonderful shade and most often it is breezy in our Appalachian Foothills!READ MORE

Simple + Southern Sunday No. 546

~ Simple + Southern Sunday, Spring

“know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.”
‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭4‬:‭39‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Rise and shine, May has arrived and over one third of 2025 has passed. Jim Croce wrote “Time In A Bottle” in 1972, the year before he died in a plane crash. Jim had some interesting and creative thoughts throughout the song and it starts this way…
“If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to save every day
‘Til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you”READ MORE