My daughter and grandson did some shopping for us today. They also volunteered to fill our local small free pantry so I didn't have to go to town.
I asked my daughter to tell me how much the groceries set her back, so I could send money, but this is what she sent back.
I appreciate the lovely flowers and thought behind them.
They are too good to us.
Her garden is always lovely.
#Garden ##BloomScrolling
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The roses are going to fade in the coming hot temps so I tried to capture their beautiful spring colors in the early morning light today
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Edited 32d ago
I love the garden in early summer. #BloomScrolling #Gardening
Well.
I'm still here.
Summer is working overtime trying to take care of both of us.
I am hopeful that today will be the day that my coughing and sinus pain diminish.
My husband sees his primary care provider this afternoon for his version of the same cough.
Summer did take me outside for some fresh air.
The foxglove is in our neighbor's yard. The rhododendron is ours.
Good morning, Mastodon.
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Love going outside right after it rains. All the little critters come out to explore!
Met two friends today, a #caterpillar and a #PotatoBug.
Relatively, we're all small.
#caterpillars #insects #mosstodon #nature #lichensubscribe #bloomscrolling #bugs #awalkaday
Edited 40d ago
My daughter sent me a virtual visit to her garden. I'm getting lots of attention from family today.
So many flowers and she didn't even get to the dahlias yet.
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On the up side of the heat and humidity getting going, the ajisai (hydrangea) are out in force.
These are all from a short walk a couple of days ago. The variety in colour and shapes of the flowers is always impressive.
It seems a lot of you folks in Mastodon land like strawflowers, so here are some more to admire!
Most of us are destined to overcome challenges. For some we have an uphill battle starting the day we are born.
For my daughter I was that challenge. She was a healthy beautiful baby born to a fourteen year old mom. I was a emancipated minor child trying to adult in a world of intolerance.
Somethings never change.
I couldn't legally drive or work, and was determined to avoid any kind of financial assistance that might become an excuse to take her away.
Together we grew up.
I can't put into words how I feel about the person she became.
Today I took our compost to her house. I admired the large new pride flag that they now hang in a window so it doesn't dissappear. I toured her garden that I haven't seen in a month and felt a million good feelings because she turned out to be a kind, talented and compassionate person who doesn't even know how to hate.
My reason to be thankful today.
Flowers are from her garden.
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Edited 17d ago
There is a volunteer tomato plant growing in my wildflower garden. I've never grown tomatoes in that space. I'm letting it stay. Maybe it will be productive, but it will have to outcompete the nearby purple coneflowers that are reaching maturation. (photo attached)
Turk’s Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus) now blooming in the back garden.
#SilentSunday #Stunday #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening
I love the centers of these flowers, they look like some beautiful eldritch horror spilling into our world from between purple fairy wings.
A biblically accurate fae abomination 💜
Edited 12d ago
Last night in the greenhouse...
'Queen of the Night' a night-flowering Cereus though not sure which one. The large (5"-6") flowers start to open late afternoon but are not in their prime until after dark. Then they're over by the morning.
