Everyday Living

Farm Fresh Flowers

~ Everyday Living, Faith, Gardening, Monday Morning Blooms, Summer

“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭4:23‬ ‭

Hello dear friends. Welcome to Monday Morning Blooms where I join my friends Lidy, Mary, and Shirley to offer flower inspiration. We continue our ongoing theme of “anything goes” during these unprecedented times. I am in the garden once again, so grab your straw hat and I will provide a tall glass of iced tea. In the Deep South, we prefer our tea sweet! 

I am so grateful to have farm fresh flowers. Since March all flowers in my arrangements have either come from my garden, wildflowers that have been foraged from our surrounding 250 acre woods, or from two flower farms that are about twenty five miles away. You have met my dear friend Martha that owns the hydrangea farm, where I shared a visit last year. She grows many varieties, but she is probably most famous for snowflake hydrangeas.

I have not officially introduced you to Leah who owns Deep Roots Flower Farm. She offers a wide variety of flowers…ranunculus, poppies, dahlias, cosmos, zinnias, sunflowers, etc!

My colorful arrangement is composed of farm fresh flowers from Deep Roots Flower Farm and my garden.

You will find gorgeous flower inspiration from my friends at the bottom of this post.READ MORE

Simple + Southern Sunday No. 302

~ Everyday Living, Faith, Family, Gardening, Simple + Southern Sunday, Summer

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
‭‭John‬ ‭14:27‬ ‭

We often start Sunday with a sunrise but we were greeted one morning this week by a “bodacious” dahlia and it looked quite sunny!

Some of our crepe myrtles have been spotty and unusual in the way they’ve bloomed, and a bit late also. We wondered if anyone else has noticed something similar on crepe myrtles?READ MORE

August Days

~ Everyday Living, Faith, Summer, Tablescape Tuesday

“Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭16:24‬ ‭

Hello sweet friends. I certainly hope your week is off to a good start. I haven’t shared a tablescape at the picnic table in several weeks. It is a shaded area which is most pleasant during these hot August days!

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
-Camille Pissarro

The “artist garden” tablecloth by April Cornell was my inspiration for the tablesetting!

In case you haven’t noticed, I have a weakness for floral tablecloths!READ MORE