Everyday Living

Welcoming Spring!

~ Gardening, Spring

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above;
Join with all nature in manifold witness,
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love
—Thomas Chisholm

Hello lovely friends! I am thrilled that you are here to help me welcome spring!

The window is open and a warm, delicious little breeze comes wandering in. It smells of magnolias and dogwood and it whispers in our ears enticing little stories of gurgling brooks and cool woods. Yes, we have got spring fever and got it bad. ~Country Life, June 1922

Springtime and azaleas are synonymous! They are considered the quintessential Southern plant. I love them in all colors from hot pink to…
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My Garden Photo Journal

~ Gardening

“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:14‬

Happy Valentine’s Day sweet friends. I have always enjoyed this day – the day we set aside to celebrate love. My prayer for you all today is that you feel loved by all of the special people in your life, but most importantly that you truly know just how loved you are by the Father. He demonstrated His love for us on the cross, where He died and rose again that we might have eternal life. This is the GREATEST LOVE of all!

With February now half over, my mind is on all things gardening. The past two weekends My Renaissance Man has been pruning and cleaning, getting it all ready for spring. If you have been a long-time follower you know that we established our garden in June of 2015. A wonderful benefit to blogging are all the photos that I have of our gardening journey. This is just a snippet from my 2018 photo journal so be sure to browse through more gardening posts here.

These photos came from the following posts:
Early Spring Garden • A Cloudy Evening In The Garden • Early Summer Garden • Our July Garden • For The Love Of Gardening

In early spring one of the first bloomers is the Arabis Snowcap that surrounds our bronze statue. Some people (including me) may confuse the snowcap with candytuft.

Our Pride of Mobile azaleas are also early bloomers.
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The Rest Of The Best Of 2018

~ Floral Friday, Gardening, Outdoors, Travel

“You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭29:13‬ ‭

Happy Thursday sweet friends! I hope your week has been going well so far. It continues to rain in my neck of the woods. It seems that we can’t get more than one day of sunshine before the skies open up with more rain! I have been organizing and cleaning after putting away all of the Christmas and spending a lot of time reading which is one of my favorite pleasures. Butch went back to work yesterday, so life is getting back to my usual routine. But my little princess won’t be back to stay with me until Monday when her mommy has to go back to teaching. And like a lot of folks, yesterday also began a healthier eating plan for us. Normally we try to eat healthy, but the holidays filled with sweets and carb overload wrecked our usual way of eating!  We are ready for a little more discipline in that area!  How about you, is healthier eating a part of your January plan?

Today, I am sharing the remainder of our top ten most viewed posts. On Tuesday, I shared our top five tablescapes which are all included in our top ten. At the bottom of this post you will see the complete list of all of them! Grab a cuppa and join me!

We have loved sharing our travels with you, but this past year we didn’t travel as much as past years. However, An Anniversary Getaway made our top ten!

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