I’m sharing this bouquet of peonies with you today for a very special reason. Today is my darling Dale’s birthday. And peonies are his favorite. I can’t even tell you how grateful I am to get to celebrate this birthday with him . . . I feel that way every year, truthfully . . . but it’s especially poignant this year when I think of what could have been. His trip around the sun since his last birthday has been an interesting one, that’s for certain.

I’d love it if you’d send Dale some birthday love in the comments! And I wish you a weekend full of love and celebrating, whatever you are doing.

Last Friday Dale and I took a drive to a nearby town to pick up this bouquet of flowers from Crooked Barn Flower Farm. It was a fun trip, not just because we got anniversary flowers for me but because we followed it up with lobster rolls in Plymouth.

I hope you have a weekend full of flowers and fun!

Say hello to this gorgeous heliotrope. It looks beautiful and smells fantastic.

Here’s to a beautiful and fantastic weekend, friends!

Here you go. Some pretty little pink flowers from one of the containers on my deck. They are small, about the size of a nickel, and look like little roses to me, although they are actually a variety of petunia.

Take some time to enjoy small joyful things this weekend, friends.

There is a flower farm not too far from me that sells incredibly beautiful blooms and bouquets. They are popular and sell out quickly but while Dale was in the hospital I was able to score a ranunculus bouquet. The pick up process is simple: you drive up, they check your name on a clipboard, and they bring out what you ordered. I’ll admit to being a little disappointed when the ranunculus they brought me were all white; I was hoping for pinks or yellows. Yet when I brought these home and put them in my bedroom they looked perfect against the gray walls and brought me a wonderful feeling of peace.

I hope you have some peaceful feelings this weekend.