We’ve had some delightfully cooler days this week and I’ve found myself drawn more and more to the outdoors.  Today, after some plant watering and weed pulling, I took the camera for a little wander around the garden.

little mushroom

I found this little fellow in the middle of our side yard.

lovely, tiny, pink flower

I scanned my flower seed packets, but I’m not really sure what kind these are.  At first I thought they were primroses, but now I’m not so sure…

We’ve gotten all of our summer veggies planted and more and more of our flowers are blooming.  The camera and I had a little stroll around the garden on saturday:

violet blue

My mom gave me these flowers last summer and I managed to keep them alive through the winter. They seem pretty happy to be back in the sunshine.   I’m not quite sure what kind they are, but I just love the shape and color of the petals!

lovely

I’m so proud of this little cozy.  The day I posted it, it made the front page of Etsy!

Bark Button Cozy

The bark button is by Amberae.

Our purple crocus is blooming!

Everywhere you look there are flowers. Our yard is filled with dark purple and pale white violets. The last of the hyacinths and our single daffodil are perfuming our living room. Our neighbors are tired of their thirty year old beautiful red tulips and have given them to us. They are blooming right now so I have not been able to transplant them yet. I am going to make a bed for them in front of the house and plant grape hyacinths in front of them.

Yesterday was so warm that it felt like summer and reminded me of a poem by Emily Dickinson:

THE BEE is not afraid of me,

I know the butterfly;

The pretty people in the woods

Receive me cordially

The brooks laugh louder when I come,

the breezes madder play.

Wherefore, mine eyes,

the silver mists

thy silver mists?

Wherefore, O summer’s day?