Some beautiful spring flowers gracefully dancing in front of the one of my stamped & soda-fired totem poles down in Central Illinois… is there such a thing as #TotemPoleTuesday?!

And sure, there may have been a bit of April snow this morning…
but it looks like Spring is still holding strong!

Gracefully arching branches of Solomon’s Seal blooming with tiny little flowers hanging below the variegated leaves. I have a few in my front yard, but they have yet to pop-up… whereas these beauties are a bit advanced in a sunny place along a south-facing brick wall.

With some cool weather over the past couple days, it seems like the spring flowers are hanging on a bit longer than normal… like these beautiful azaleas that have been blooming for a couple weeks now!

And still looking good!

Turns out the night-time shadows were created by the flowering crabapple tree on the corner by Lillstreet. Apparently the clear skies & moonlight, along with the streetlight, were bright enough to illuminate these flowers for an evening “photo shoot” of some beautiful & fragrant spring blossoms.

Although today is NATIONAL ORCHID DAY, last night in class we discussed my amazing african violet plant that has not stopped blooming since it was gifted to me a year and a half ago! So I felt a little obligated to show it off again today… since we just talked about it last night, and it looks AMAZING in the sunshine today!

With the recent success of my orchids re-blooming at home with very little hassle… okay, maybe even a bit of neglect… I decided to add two new players onto the team for NATIONAL ORCHID DAY! Kind of excited for the bright new splash of color!!!

I’m kinda excited… I’m trying to grow dahlias this summer for the first time. I started them indoors and these little nuggets popped up this morning!!! Just in time for NATIONAL GARDENING DAY!!!

Beautiful sunshine streaming through splashing some bright light & dramatic shadows on the colorful Spring flowers.

With a nice stamped & soda-fired mug…
and some spring blossoms still looking great in a “matching” ikebana vase!

Another orchid re-blooming in my kitchen window… although this time it came along with a little visitor?! He seemed to be quite happy sitting in the bloom… but I had to force him outside to find other flowers!!! Not sure what he was or where he came from… I’ve never seen one of these before?