Showing posts with label #flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #flowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

April Is Upon Us IWSG

 

IWSG
Good Day to you all. Today this post will be very short. Hope you all have a wonderful spring-filled April with lots of flowers and good rain...

A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown -- 
Who ponders this tremendous scene --
This whole Experiment of Green --
As if it were his own!


Please go and visit our amazing co-hosts this month and thank them for their support...

Jennifer Lane, L Diane Wolfe, Jenni Enzor, Natalie Aguirre!

Wednesday, June 02, 2021

OMG It's June #2 IWSG

 

Okay, so I missed last month completely. First time I've done that in a long time. I guess I will forgive myself, especially since I remembered this month, a little late, yes, but as Alex said, I remembered!

I haven't been writing. It's harder to forgive myself for not writing. But I have been in my garden creating new stories there, with plants. I think of my WIP and know I will get back to it soon, but in the meantime I must play in the dirt. I must arrange my beds and make sure I do whatever I need to for my plants to thrive, and make their own stories. This is necessary for my sanity right now. I have gone back to work in a "day" job, and will work most of the summer, to make up for last year when I couldn't work (outside the home). Last year I wrote and hit my goal of getting my novel "Rain" out before Christmas. I am very happy about that. So, until I take up the proverbial pen, my spade will be my quill, and I will smile each time I look to my garden/yard and see what I have helped nature to create. I wish all of you a happy summer, one where we can get OUT and literally breathe again. See you in July!

Please visit our IWSG co-hosts this month and thank them for being there for us all, 

J Lenni Dorner, Sarah Foster, Natalie Aguirre, Lee Lowery, Rachna Chhabria!


Enjoy my flowers. They are the stories I am telling right now!






Saturday, April 06, 2019

A to Z Quelque Fleurs de France (Some Flowers of France)

A to Z Challenge HERE

Fleurs = Flowers in English

Now I’m not going to try and name all of these beauties. Some of them I do know their names in English, but some I don’t, so I will just let you peruse and enjoy these lovely flowers of different shapes, sizes and kinds that I found during visits to France.

Roses on my mother-in-laws neighbor's house
Flowers are a kind of symbol in France. Towns are named “Villes Fleuris” Flowered Towns, in honor of how many flowers, plants, landscaping they invest in. The level that some places take this to is astounding and so easy on the eyes. Talk about “eye candy”, flowers are generally found all over the place, depending on the time of year, and location.
So, amusez-vous bien!(Have a good time!)


Peonies in Blagnac almost the size of my head!

Tulips in Cornebarrieu

Wisteria in Cornebarrieu

A type of poppy I'd never seen before

Filling the air with beauty in Blagnac

Flowers near the "toilets" at the park in Blagnac

In a garden in Mérens-les-Vals

A flowerbed in Blagnac in front of the church

Also in a garden in Mérens-les-Vals

A "get well" bouquet for my mother-in-law

Bed in front of the "Marie" in Cornebarrieu

Hanging bouquet in Martre-Tolosane

In Saint-Félix in the Lauragais

Croix Occitane in a park in Saint-Félix

Climbing roses doing their job with gusto!

Missed some of my A to Z 2019 posts? Well look no further...
 


All photos by Buie-Collard