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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

My Iris Honor Garden

When we moved to Hot

Springs Village two years

ago today, I brought my

Iris bulbs with me.

I built bed devoted to them.

I got them in the

ground and a few of

them bloomed the

next year.

This year they all bloomed.

'My Honor Garden'.

I have named some of them after the special people in my life that gave me the bulbs from their garden. I do know that they have 'official' names, but in my garden they have been renamed.

Laura

Peggy

Odell

...and the rest of the collection

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Thoughts for Thursday

First Day of Spring

The Daffodils

William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils,

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they

Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;

A poet could not but be gay

In such a jocund company.

I gazed, and gazed, but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought;

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

Born April 7, 1770
Died April 23, 1850

From One Hundred and One Famous Poems
with a Prose Supplement
An Anthology Compiled by Roy J. Cook
Revised Edition, published in 1958
by The Reilly & Lee Co. Publishers, Chicago

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Rocky Mountain High, Colorado (Part One)

Just got back from a week in Colorado...first to Idaho Springs, Georgetown, then Estes Park (Part Two!

We had a great time visiting relatives and meeting new friends. We came from from approximately 300 feet above sea level in Arkansas to 7500 feet in Idaho Springs and 8500 in Georgetown and back down to 7,500 feet in Estes Park. Definitely had to adjust to the change. We drank lots and lots of water and didn't move too fast. Colorado is one of my favorite States. The Rockies are awesome and the people even more so.

We don't buy 'dust catchers'...just send ourselves postcards!

Continental Divide on the way to Idaho Springs from Denver Airport

Idaho Springs

'Vintage Moose Tavern' where we had Beer and Antipasto

Gospel Music-Group getting ready
for Gospel Music Festival
that weekend-we would be in
Estes Park by then so we stopped and listened for a while.
In the cutest shop-

(Cute Shop-No, I couldn't buy it!
It wouldn't fit in our suitcase.)

Walk by Clear Creek

Georgetown

Louis DuPuy's Hotel de Paris and Gardens

On to Estes Park...continued in

Part Two of Rocky Mountain High, Colorado!

Friday, May 3, 2013

Adventures of a Pink Iris

This is the story of Pink...
...the Iris on our mantle.

Her story...yes, her, she is 'pink' after all!...begins at Nana's Iris Garden in Charleston, Arkansas.

Pink is in truck
along with day lilies.

My Sister-in-law and I went there in 2007 a side trip on the way to the Butterfly Festival on Mount Magazine.

She is one of those
iris leaves in a flower bed
in the front of our
former house.

Pink has now been transported along with other iris to our new home. The pictures tell the rest of the story.

Just a few leaves are appearing in their new home.

Pink is on our mantle now,

but she lives in our iris bed

to bloom another day!

Sunday, April 14, 2013

A Walk on the Wild Side

Time for a walk before Chuck is ensconced in front of the TV watching the Masters Golf Tournament. There's no time to get in the car to walk a man-made trail. So...we took off out our back door down a trail that used to be a logging road when our sub-division came into being. We used the gravel 'streets to be' as our path.