June 2025

 

Another trip to see my mama and my sis PJ at Powers Pond.  Mama will be 90 next week!

Ray & Lisa's asparagus with PJ's amazing keto alfredo sauce.  

I don't think I've ever eaten so much asparagus in one sitting!

We did some reading, as usual :)

June 2023

 It was a great visit in Michigan for mama's 88th birthday! She and PJ have beautiful gardens :)

January 2019

Thank you to my mama for finding this gem.  

Everything is so messed up, but we are planting flowers.

I went to see mama and PJ for a few days.  It was cold, but we were together.  Love this picture of them at Mrs Graye's greenhouse.  I brought back several plants. Hope they make it to warm weather and the back yard.

Jordan and Beth.

PJ always makes me laugh. She's good medicine.  

Brandi, Crafton's girlfriend, made me this beautiful sign.

 Mary Oliver, the poet died this week.  I thank her for sharing her comforting words.

Rachel and the kids at their new house.  I am so thankful they have a new home where they can heal and rebuild their lives.  Here's the poem that Rachel posted with the picture:

 

“The world has been abnormal for so long 

that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. 

If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.”
Madeleine L'Engle

Happy Birthday to my Mama!

 I'm usually at mama's on her birthday, but I went up a couple weeks earlier this year.  Peony-wise, it was perfect timing.  We had a wonderful visit but I miss them terribly when I get back home.  

 The fanciest of the peonies didn't have much of that heavenly smell, as often happens with hybrids--fragrance gets lost when the plant is changed to make bigger "better" blooms.    But still, we gravitated towards this one because the blooms were so pretty and they matched mama & PJ's perfect t's to a t.  They are as cute as the peony!

So happy happy birthday to my beautiful sweet mama today.  I love you and am so proud to be your daughter. 

Flower Trip

Flower House Detroit, October 2015.  It. Was. Incredible.

And if you want more pictures:  #flowerhousedetroit

 Francoise Weeks floral design workshop, hosted by Susan McLeary aka Passionflower. 

My favorite picture of the whole week with my mom and my sis and  flowers :)

Happy Birthday to My Mama

Seventy-eight years young today!  We're having a wonderful visit here in Michigan.  We've been on a quilt/garden tour, visited the Proven Winners garden, shopped at an antique/junk shop, and today we're going downtown to Whole Foods and Lafayette Gardens.  So lucky to be able to be with my mom and sister PJ and brother-in-law Jeff. 

And lucky to have cake too!  Love love from Michigan. . .

Michigan 2012

Such a great time in Michigan last weekend.  This was taken at the Proven Winners garden near PJ's house.  Isaac and Jordan flew in to visit too!

Mama, Kynda, Rebecca, and PJ

Isaac, Jordan, mama, Rebecca

Mark & Ike

Sky Fire Coleus

Proven Winners Garden

When you see these pictures, you're going to see why I had to go feed my containers yesterday.

 This Proven Winners Display garden at Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton, Michigan is close to PJ. 

 

I wanna know their secret rabbit repellant, cause we didn't see one sign of a rabbit anywhere.  Unlike my garden, where alyssum is considered the perfect midnight snack by the neighborhood bunnies.

It's too late to have big daisies blooming on the driveway, but maybe a few  flagstone leaves for the patio one day . . .

These black & white petunias are really cute--I couldn't find any when I got back home, so they're going on next year's list.

Every mixed container was like a work of art. 

I could look at this foliage container all day

 So much for that old one-spike-in-the-middle design . . .

I think this was my favorite bed--a swath of orange & red that seemed to go on forever.  If we  had the time, I'd be talking to Mark about traveling all over Michigan in August for their state-wide greenhouse tour.    In the meantime, feed those containers!  :)

Michigan Trip

For the past few years, I've been going to see my mama on her birthday.  She looks beautiful here with her Monroe bakery birthday cake!  We always have a great time.

These are a few pictures from PJ's garden, where she has a fab new shed, built by Jeff.

Jeff fashioned the blue garden light from a garage sale find.  I want one of these too!

And I always mean to bring back some hens and chickens, but I forgot again!  Oh, well, there's always next year.  Looking forward to it already :)