Warm And Sunny Pink Saturday

Hello Friends....I hope your week was peaceful and perfect! Mine? It was good with a couple of small bumps. Such is life! Today we are having our weekly pink party, thanks to Beverly at How Sweet The Sound. Hop over and find all the other wonderful ladies celebrating pink on their blogs....

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*The heavenly flowers and glass vase are from my Texas family and sweet card from my NY daughter.... I hope your Mothers Day was all it should be. Mine was happy. It was just hubby and Miss A and myself. There were happy phone calls and I chose pizza for dinner, which our granddaughter treated me to...There was one little glitch, though. I went out to work in the gardens and enjoy the sunshine when I felt a sharp stab to my knee. It was p-a-i-n-f-u-l! I could not help but let out a yelp and dropping my hoe, I grabbed my jeans trying to squash whatever stung me and WHAM! I got stung again. Grabbing my pant legs harder I hobbled to the house only to find that hubby dearest had locked the back door. Our little neighbor boy, who is a clone of the little boy in Jerry McGuire, walked up the driveway to retrieve a ball that flew over the fence only to see me pounding on the door, ( I must have looked like a crazy lady hanging onto my jeans and banging on the door. I gave up the back door and hastily went to the front...IT WAS LOCKED, TOO! Finally, Hubby came downstairs. (I always leave both doors unlocked when I am working outside and made a point of unlocking the front door before I went out.) It was just automatic reflex that he locked the doors and I knew that, but I was not a happy camper at all and as I threw off my jeans to see my knee. I was rather shocked...it was bright red and huge! The frozen penny was retrieved from the freezer with a sack of ice. My worry was that since I am diabetic, I could go into shock...I have never been allergic to stings, but there was that concern....well, to end this overly long tale, after an hour I was fine and went back to my gardening. There were two little holes side by side on my knee as if it had been a snake....when I got back to the garden there were a couple of yellow jackets with their legs dangling as they flew and then I knew...they will sting twice and a bee can not with his barbed stinger... So, that little incident was the excitement of my otherwise very happy Mothers Day!
Have a glorious week enjoying all that is blooming courtesy of Mother Nature. ♥ Jil
PS As I write this, a very happy robin is singing gayly by my window...the icing on a beautiful day!

Lets Party Among The Flowers...

What could be better to chase away the gloom of dark winter skies, than to engross ourselves in sunny pictures of gardens and flowers? It was a pleasurable time, this afternoon, going through my pictures revisiting last summers blooms! Even though it only got to a chilly 20 degrees today in my part of Michigan, I could feel the warm sunshine as I enjoyed these pictures. They gave me that happy, hopeful feeling knowing that it would not be too long before we saw the first blush of green on the trees .... the the first tips of tulips and daffodils pushing up through the soil. Images to remember as we are shoveling snow and dealing with the cold.

So, please join us at ETSY COTTAGE STYLE for a sweet party in the gardens of our members...Guaranteed, it will lift away the winter blahs and remind you what is not that far off...I have already begun my list of flowers and plants for my spring trips to the nursery! One of life's true pleasures. ♥ Enjoy!

Look at those beautiful healthy buds! And, petunias, pink and white, waiting to be planted....

And one of my sweet Columbine plants. They are so special, I always imagine fairies playing among their pretty leaves....foxglove in the background is one of my favorites...

A few raindrops from a passing spring shower....

And, of course, beautiful bearded Iris...

And bright pink Carnations with a spicy fragrance...

More Iris that came with the house...

This was a "curbside" find. Hubby found this and spoke with the man that had put it out to be sure he was really giving away this treasure....the man told him it had belonged to his father long ago. The paper is still on the front with the name of the company that made it. That was a bonus day, as he also surprised me with a beautiful olde wicker rocker for the porch from the same house ....It is our most comfortable porch chair!

One of our beautiful Spirea bushes in bloom....

Beautiful Baby Blue Rose...she did not do well last year and hope the year to come will be better for blooms!

Our gorgeous Bleeding Heart bushes among the Lily Of The Valley! They get twice this size and are the prettiest things! I wished they bloomed all summer long!

One of my new Star Gazer Lilies....they were huge!!

Dainty Bleeding Hearts and Wood Columbine among the
Ferns and Violets...

Flowers in one of the hanging baskets on the front porch...

Our daughters home by Lake Champlain...
And I will end this little trip down my memory lane of last years flowers with my beloved Eden Rose:

I hope you enjoyed your visit and that all the flowers and their loveliness, warmed your heart!
Now I am going to go and enjoy yours...
♥ Jil

Hello All and Happy Easter, Happy Spring and Happy Passover! This is a special Pink Saturday and when you go to Beverly's you will find all the pretty Springtime blogs to browse through....


Flowers from our gardens last year and the cross beside the road that we always watch for....I believe this one is in Missouri. Isn't it magnificent?

Spring is very slow in coming to us this year...right now it is raining, which I love, but it is chilly, chilly, chilly....which I don't love! I do hope that Sunday will have the sun shinning and warmer temps so all the children can have fun finding eggs outside.....so much more fun than finding them inside.


We will be celebrating just the two of us, but we have much to be thankful for. The West Texas fires swept through the town our Texas family lives in....Ft. Davis. It swept through the area of their home and when they were evacuated they went out on the highway where they could watch. It was all high flames fed by the high winds and dense smoke, but hours and hours later, when it all cleared, their home was OK! There was only a small bit under the fence in a portion of their property. Many were not so lucky....I believe, the last I heard 43 homes were lost in that area and sadly a fireman is in the burn unit of The University Medical Center in Lubbuck. He is fighting for his life with 60% of his body burned.....I hope you will remember to keep him in your prayers.....having been in the US Forest Service with my first husband, I know how treacherous and deadly even a grass fire can become!

And, another blessing....our Texas grandson has had the grafting on his hand completed this week. He is waiting to find out when he will be released to finish his therapy and recovery.....Three weeks ago he had a serious dirt bike accident where he wound up being air lifted to Lubbuck to The University Medical Center and that is where he is now after the surgery.....A freak accident caused him to fly over the handle bars with the bike landing on top of him. He was knocked unconscious and his unprotected hand rested on the hot exhaust pipe causing third degree burns on his hand and wrist. I know he learned a valuable lesson to always be wearing your safety gear...all of it, not just some of it. Thank heavens he had his helmet on or it could have been much, much worse!
This special young man graduates from college next month and has been accepted into the US Border Patrol and is waiting orders. We are all hoping and praying he will get his hand healed and working before they call....

So, these last few weeks have been a bit stressful, but with luck and prayers, all seems to be on the mend!

Wishing you all many blessings,
Jil

Chilly Pink Saturday

Hello All....Wherever you are I hope it is not as cold as it is here. Brrrr! It is almost April and last night it got down to 9 degrees and the high today, so far, has not made it to 30! The less than one inch of snow of the first of the week turned out to be more like four and it is frozen to the ground and trees. Even though tulips and other spring flowers seem to be hardy, I wonder what this frozen snow is doing to them! Some were up about six inches ....Oh, where is Spring and some warm air????

But to happier matters....this is Saturday and you all know what that means! We are celebrating our favorite color, PINK, with Beverly . Be sure and run over to see all the wonderful blogs taking part....

I feel kind of lacking in pink this week to show you, but I did these three little "egg" bunnies and they come in this very pink wire basket...They turned out pretty cute and they sit by themselves, too. You can see more views of them at My Website

And, then while I was at it, I made three more that I listed individually on My Etsy

This is one of them....

I am keeping the noble people of Japan in my daily prayers and I hope you will join me....they are now fearing a serious breach in the reactors that could spill uncontrolled amounts of radiation....how horrific on top of all they are having to deal with! And then there was another good jolt in the ground in Myanmar which took lives....

I was saddened too, this week, by the passing of one my all time favorite actresses...Elizabeth Taylor. I have read that she had suffered great pain for some time and while I will miss her, I am happy she is now painfree and in a peaceful place.

Lets hope that next weeks news will be a bit cheerier!
Happy Pink Saturday!
Jil

Introducing Eden * My Heart Stopping New Rose

Hi Everyone....I am not sure how my Pink Saturday Post got below this post...lol...if anyone could do it, it would be me! Please scroll past this post for Pink Saturday....my apologies....Jil


Four years ago, this month, my Romantic Homes arrived and when I turned the page, this double page of gorgeous pink climbing roses looked up at me and took my breath away...It was instant love!....I knew I had to have them!....




So, for four long years, this magazine has been the top one in my magazine basket with the page folded back to this double page and for four years I have looked each place we shopped for the spring and summer plants, but no Eden, until...... Last Saturday, out to my favorite garden spot....I was just about to call it quits with plant buying....the purchase table had just about everythng I had come for....when something...I don't know what made me go out and look at their climbing roses...as I rounded the corner I saw a large branch of big pale fluffy pink roses falling out over the aisle,...and I thought these are MINE and walked a little faster incase someone else had spotted this beauty, too.....I didn't care what they cost, if we had to eat beans for a month, so be it, but I was going to have this rose and when I looked at the tag...OMGosh...the name was Eden. I NEVER expected these beautiful roses to be EDEN! If you could see these roses in person, you would understand why they were given this name....

I almost ran to the check out.....this was no small feat either, as the bush and the pot it was in was quite big and with big canes flopping here and there and trying to avoid all the shoppers, it was a chore and the day was 100% humidity and in with all the plants, 200% I am sure! I was exhausted and dripping by the time we got to the register but we made it and no one tried to grab it from me....my fear!

Hubby had wanted to wait in the car....he had a book and he could leave the air conditioning running and..... he knows me at nurseries, but he lovingly loaded it in the van, admired it greatly and off we went to Sams...you would not believe the smile on my face!!!

No it is not planted yet. It must have six hours of sun and in our tiny yard with trees all around, I keep moving the pot and watching how many hours the sun shines on it...So far the most has been three hours....there is a spot, in the front, on one side of the porch against the brick pillar that needs a bush. We have considered that spot as the sun will shine six hours there, but, I can't really see it unless I go out to the front...in the back I can see it out many windows....decisions, decisions....But, I am in heaven with my beautiful pink rose, Eden!

And Below Are My Precious Babies....




Pink Rose Wishes....Jil
xo

2nd BIRTHDAY FOR PINK SATURDAY! WOO HOO!

Thank you, thank you, Beverly for having the brilliant idea for this pinkalicious event! And, can you believe that two years have passed, already???? Well, we sure have had fun and met lots of sweet new friends....that is the best part! And, Happy Birthday Wishes for many more Pink Birthdays!



You will find this fun and fancy frame with a vintage birthday card inside, at our new website....I hope you will visit and take a peek... The Ruffled Rose
A Bit Of Pink From My Gardens...

The Angel In My Garden....I Made Many Of These For Craft Shows

Sweet Little Bird Bath Among The Bleeding Hearts


Carnations...and these have that wonderful Carnation scent....

Delicate Foxglove blossoms with water drops....

Where I love to sit with a book and a glass of Sweet Tea with Lemon or just sit.....

*Lets pause for just a moment and say a prayer for those brave men and women and their families, who served our country and gave the ultimate sacrifice so we can have the freedoms we have today....We must stay united and strong so they did not die in vain....*


Now I am off to other Pink Birthday Parties.....
Sending Hugs.....Jil xo