Posted in Awesome Fotos, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Thoughts, Gardening, Home and Hearth, Photography, Survival, Uncategorized, Virginia, Virginia Views, tagged Blooms, flower care, flowers, gardeners, Gardens, Iris, Virginia flora, Virginia garden on April 28, 2016| 19 Comments »
Sadly neglected irises are the flowers we count on to return to our trial-and-error Virginia garden year after year. I bought the bulbs nearly 20 years ago, planted them in a line and left the bed virtually untended forever after. Ignored and all but forgotten over each winter, the brilliantly purple blooms unfailingly return and return again in the Spring – more beautiful than ever.
Posted in Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, February Perspectives, Gardening, Humor, Photography, Seasons, Survival, tagged February Fotos, gardening, humor, Iris, photography, Seasons, Spring in February, Winter blooms on February 16, 2015| 16 Comments »
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Beauty, Country Fotos, Country Thoughts, Poetry, tagged Flower, Garden, Iris, Peony, springtime on May 20, 2013| 9 Comments »
This is why I love Spring more than Fall,
at least for now, since ’tis the season.
Which flower is most beautiful of all?
Is the plate sized peony the reason?
Or is it the purple iris growing tall?
Or the sweet coolness of a summer breeze
wafting in as if to tease?
I walk and think and plan and look.
I love Spring’s promise;
an introduction
that reads better than the book.
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