A true sign of Summer… and the newest bloom in my front garden!

Surviving the heat… enjoying a little flicker of sun.
This is a new clematis in my garden… “new” as in the second year,
but the first year with flowers!!! So pretty…

This morning’s arrival… a new iris has bloomed in my garden… with more flower buds coming up soon!!! Loving the dramatic contrast of colors … as well as solids vs. stripes!

Looks like Allison is enjoying some beautiful lilacs from her Momma’s garden… lookin’ sweet in her stamped & purple glazed vase… or is that more “aubergine”???

A week later, and my art fair booth flowers are still looking pretty good.
I think they might be enjoying life on my back porch
with the cooler nights we’ve been having.

Celebrating a little Floral Friday with some beautiful flowers that my friend Rhonda grew in her yard, took some cuttings & now displaying them in my vases all over her house! A little floral collaboration in the making!!! And that yellow peony?… c’mon already… gorgeous!!!

Okay… so my pink Easter Cactus seems to be a little confused. It clearly missed its namesake holiday, but is finally happy & blooming in a handmade stamped & soda-fired flower pot. Almost a month late, but I’ll still take it!!!

Not every mug has to be used for coffee! Sometimes a hybrid mug looks even better with a splash of brightly colored flowers!!! Perfect for another Mugshot Monday!

Spent the morning working in my front yard garden… tending to the weeds, taking out more of last year’s leaves, planting, transplanting & trying my best to make it beautiful. Also enjoying the white crabapple tree blooming at the condo just to the east of me. Simply beautiful… I might need to add one to my yard next year???

Some beautiful redbud flowers still hanging on after the storms, the wind & the hail over the past few days… plus yesterday’s crazy “dust storm”?!!! Excited as these are my favorite trees in the Spring… including the three in my front yard!