It’s another photo of the flowers in my window boxes, this time from inside the house. When I say they are exploding this year, I’m not kidding! Our weather, unlike other parts of the country, has been warm but not too hot and the nights have been on the cooler side and the flowers are loving it. I’m not complaining about it, either!

Have a complaint free weekend, friends.

Is there a flower more beautiful, more intricate, more spectacular than the dahlia? I’m starting to think there isn’t and I’m falling more in love with them every year. I’m growing them from tubers for the first time this summer but I also have this baby in a pot on my deck right now and it’s just stunning.

Happy June weekend, friends!

When all else fails, flowers help, so I took a stroll through my yard yesterday afternoon and was heartened by all the blooming things. The persistence and reliability of the natural world gives me strength.

Here’s to a peaceful weekend, friends.

Hello, friends. The conference was fun and I had originally planned on posting yesterday but my anger and grief over yet another school shooting after yet another grocery store shooting was just too much to contain. I’m back today with some eye candy for you but please know that my silence over our nation’s irrational obsession with guns does not mean I am not incensed. Nor does it mean I am not taking action.

Okay. Onward.

Look at these beautiful clematis blossoms. I have had this plant for years and it has never been loaded with some many beautiful flowers.

These are the things that give me hope.

Coffee on the deck season is back and I couldn’t be happier! Well . . . I’d like less pine pollen, if I’m being completely honest. But still, coffee on the deck. Hurrah!

And hurrah for the weekend, too, friends. Cheers to a good one!