Tis’ the season for beautiful lilies apparently… so many different colors blooming all over the neighborhood! Like these vibrant pink ones just down the street.

Classic red Asiatic lilies blooming in my front yard.
Simply saturated color.

The coleus plants on my front porch are all growing so well… so I just chopped them all down!!! Okay, so maybe “pruned” them is a better phrase… but here are the cuttings that I’m going to try rooting. My Peoria gardening friends to it all the time… so I figure if I can even get half of them to root I’m doing good!

A new favorite in the neighborhood! I noticed these striking asiatic lilies about a block or two from my place as I was pedaling home this morning! Pretty striking with their mix of colors & crazy patterns!

Plants on trees… now made possible with a trio of ceramic wall pockets made with drainage holes! A sweet little collection enjoying the morning sun. Thanks for sharing Kimberley Sue!!!

Enjoying late afternoon flowers on the back porch. Vibrant & fragrant bee balm flowers & furry smoke bush clippings in a soda-fired ikebana vase… and a mini hosta in a handmade flower pot!

A rose is a rose is a rose… beautiful even if it’s just a wild rose growing on the roadside!

When a vase finally gets flowers… it’s like some kind of destiny fulfilled! Thank you Sarah for sharing your beautiful roses in my stamped & soda-fired vase! A nice addition to your kitchen.

While the clouds roll through today, it was a beautifully sunny day yesterday… perfect for a bike ride up to where the “path ends” and back again. Such a pretty day pedaling north to the Great Lakes Naval Base, through Fort Sheridan, Openlands Lakeshore Preserve, the Chicago Botanic Garden and the Chicago River North Branch Trail.

Great fun to find my friends Allison & Terry at Openlands…
while he was busy trying to balance more rocks along the lakefront!

So the buds have finally opened on my dendrobium orchid… so exciting as it’s re-blooming for me for the very first time!!! Seemingly with “nothing but neglect” as its care regimen… maybe a splash of water if & when I remember?! Sure, there may not be a lot of flowers on this one… but it’s still pretty exciting. Guess my orchids have enjoyed quarantine a bit more than me!