Surpriiise! It’s another rose!Yeah, sorry. I just really like them, okay?This one is taken at the Memphis botanic garden. It was a great mid-September family expedition.… Read the rest...
A couple years ago, I got the most amazing candle on clearance at Pottery Barn for all of like two dollars. Unlike most candles its size, it had only one wick, which burned straight down and left a large amount of wax unused. It smelled fantastic and I kept it… Read the rest...
Okay, I confess. As much as I love photographing flowers, I have no idea what most of them are. Sometimes I take pictures of things and then spend ages trying to figure out what in the world I’ve just photographed. This is one of them.Sadly, flowers and I don’t really… Read the rest...
At the beginning of the year, I turned my Valentine’s roses into potpourri.
It’s no secret that roses are my favorite flower. I normally dry the flowers my husband gives me, but with a new baby in the house, I was too distracted to do it and they started drooping… Read the rest...
Yellow is Mom’s favorite color, so it’s never a surprise when her garden is filled with daisies and sunflowers and things like these black-eyed susans. She’s got a remarkable green thumb but rarely gets to utilize it because of her autoimmune health issues. Toward the end of summer and early… Read the rest...
Bloggling. That’s what I’ll call it.I don’t know why, but I inexplicably always convince myself that I can maintain more than one blog. I have no idea why I do this, you’d think that after about ten years I’d learn that I can only manage about one. And sometimes not… Read the rest...
I really love statues. This one in particular belongs to my mother, sitting on the corner of her front porch. My father has grown to dislike this statue, wanting to throw her away as she ages and begins to crumble, showing cracks and heavy wear. I’ve always thought that the… Read the rest...