Everyday Living

Dancing Poppies

~ Everyday Living, Faith, Monday Morning Blooms

Hello dear readers! I hope you all had a lovely weekend. We worked in the garden all day Saturday and with perfect weather were able to complete several projects. Finally, we have a beginning plan for our English cottage garden!

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭55:6‬ ‭

It is Monday Morning Blooms with my friends Lidy, Mary, and Shirley. We are excited to welcome a guest blogger who also loves gardening and flowers. Bonnie is a fellow Alabamian and we became friends when I started blogging and she so graciously reached out to me. She is a true Southern lady with her genteel spirit and sweet personality. Bonnie blogs at Living With Thanksgiving and we welcome her to Monday Morning Blooms!

Join me in the Sunshine Cottage for dancing poppies!

I think poppies are one of the happiest flowers, and their colors are stunning!

You can find my talented friends’ links at the bottom of this post!

If you don’t know Bonnie, now is the perfect time to see her love for flowers and how she artfully arranges them!READ MORE

Simple + Southern Sunday No. 337

~ Everyday Living, Faith, Family, Simple + Southern Sunday, Spring

“Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭36:5‬ ‭

This is our country road and it sometimes takes us home…but most of the time we use it to travel from the lower pasture to the upper pasture (as I tend to call them).

Speaking of the lower pasture, the daisy fleabane that pops up every year in this section has a pink/lavender touch to the petals as opposed to white petals on most plants. I wondered, like hydrangeas, if soil acid content was responsible.  I discovered there are several varieties of fleabane which contributes to the color variations. And such a strange name…fleabane. Did you know that in days gone by it was believed this plant, when dried, would repel…you guessed it…fleas!READ MORE

The Art Of Flowers Giveaway

~ Everyday Living, Faith, Monday Morning Blooms

Happy Monday sweet friends! I hope your weekend was a beautiful one. Ours started off with lots of rain, but yesterday was picture perfect!

 

“The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.”
‭‭Song of Solomon‬ ‭2:12‬ ‭

I am so excited to share with you a FABULOUS GIVEAWAY! Don’t we all love the opportunity to win something?!

 
 

The editors of Victoria just released this gorgeous book, The Art of Flowers! If you have a love of flowers, gardening, or floral arranging this book is a must add to your collection.

 

“The pages of Victoria magazine brim with flowers. From blissful backyard beds to extravagant floral plots and from elaborate centerpieces for special occasions to petite posies to brighten a dreary day, we love them all in their glorious forms. That is why we are pleased to present this inspiring volume of floral photography.”

Victoria has generously provided each one of us with a book to give away to one reader. Please read to the bottom of the post for details on how to enter.READ MORE