...You don't bring me flowers....anymore!

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Zooming in...Full view of flower below in my Monday Morsels. If you look closer, with the camera's macro setting, you can see the 'veins' in this flower...embiggen it!!











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MONDAY MORSELS

I was humming and singing the song by Barbra Streisand [see title], and Bud politely informed me that buying cut flowers is a waste of money when I have a flower haven in my very own yard [I agreed].......


Nothing exciting is happening around here these days. Bud and I are nearly done with the outdoor cleanup. One more flower box area in the front yard of weeding and we'll be done. The lawns have been trimmed and edged, and Bud put down "Weed and Feed". It's lookin' good!!! Now we're tackling inside. Hope you're sitting down .......he's tearing all the books down off the shelves in our library and dusting them. Yay!!! It truly is a week long project for him. And as much as he loves his books, he dreads the day I say "It's time to clean 'em". Just to let you know, when we relocated here from Tucson, the packers had packed 45 [you read that correctly!!] ..forty-five boxes of nothing but books!; and, there have been many more added since we've lived in Texas! Okay, so while he is working on that, I washed the windows and Venetian blinds, the curtains and then rehung them. I cleaned the small collection of mermaids and waxed and cleaned my desk...Pfft!!! That was like ---total tornado went through it....disaster area. Where's FEMA when you need 'em?!! Then, waxed and cleaned the doors and window sill...MY part is done!! LOL I'll move on to the master bedroom now, I think, 'cause the master bath was done last week. For me, the worst room to Spring Clean is the kitchen. Ewwww. Cupboards...inside and out. I don't know how those dust bunnies find their way through the cupboard doors and love living in the darkness like they do, but they do. "Out you go, you little rascals". And I do believe they breed just as their cousins do. They show up continually like there's a hot momma somewhere I never catch, and they bore new bunnies just hours after I clean 'em out. Somebody should patent a dust bunny birth control, they'd make a huge profit that would keep our country out of debt, being that the government wants to control profits these days. [Sorry, couldn't shut up on that one!] Are y'all still with me this fine Monday? I do gab on and on sometimes. So, to close this entry for the day, I thought I'd share some of the flowers that are in bloom in our back yard now that it's decent looking for my bloggin' buddies. The top image is a Chicago Peace Rose bud. And the fragrance? So wonderful...like a fresh clean scent of Springtime!! The middle photo is of a newly planted hibiscus. It's residing under our huge bird of paradise plant where it'll get the morning sun, and the dew from the BOP plant will filter down to feed it extra moisture. It's a favorite of Bud's...we had one in Tucson, and I finally found the exact species here over the weekend. And lastly, my white Calla Lily is in full bloom. I have it planted with the Spanish Bayonets in the corner under the overhang of the neighbor's Mountain Cherry Tree where the sun is filtered during the summer months when the temps soar to triple digits and it'll survive the heat of the season. As you can figure out, I love flowers of all kinds. It's a good thing I don't work in a nursery 'cause I'd never get a paycheck...my wages would be garnished for plants I continually take home with me.







POSTED: Monday, April 12th, 2010
3:00 A.M.