Mini Flowers

 

 

Hello Friends,

We have spring blooms outside and inside. All of the blooms that I am sharing are mini blooms.  I love the petite bouquets I can create using these mini flowers.

Above I used mini daffodils, squill and tansy greens to create a petite bouquet. 

 

 

This is my second year of owning this orchid and it is the second year that it is blooming for me. My mom was gifted the orchid and asked me if I wanted it after she enjoyed it for awhile.  I killed the last orchid I had, so I was a bit nervous taking over the stewardship of this sweet orchid.

The flowers are small on this variety of orchid.

 I love how long the bloom lasts. 

 

A bit of squill and spring greens.

 

Happy Spring Flowers!!

 ♥

 Carla

It is a Badlands Hodgepodge

 

Badlands, South Dakota

 

Hello Friends,

It is Wednesday and that means it is time for the Hodgepodge.

Joyce asks the questions.

We answer the questions.

Click here to join the fun! 

 

 1. April 22nd is Earth Day...what's the most 'out of this world' place on earth you've ever visited? Tell us something about it. 

 We visited the Badlands in South Dakota. In my opinion it is 'out of this world' with unique beauty. 

 

 

I found a flower growing.  

 

 

The colors are always changing in the landscape. 

They call it the land of stone and light.

 

 

2. A favorite quote, verse, or song lyric with the word earth in it? 

 

"The earth laughs in flowers." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

 3. What's the most trivial thing about which you have a strong opinion? 

 

I do not like when one mixes our coffee roasts. Ha! 

We purchase different roasts of coffee. I like to just have the french roast be the french roast. There is someone else in this house that will mix the french roast with the dark roast and other roasts. He makes up his own roast I guess. 

Ha!

 4. What's your most commonly used kitchen utensil or tool? What's the last thing you made using that tool? 

The strainer. I use a strainer just about everyday.

I strained tuna to make a tuna sandwich for lunch.

 

5. Marilyn (Memphis Bridges) gave me a great book of 3000 questions, and I'm going to try to use one in our Hodgepodge every week. Here is today's - 

What is your greatest extravagance? 

 

Plants!! 

Seeds!!

Gardening gear!!

 

 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks GO!

Christopher Morley

 

Knock - Knock

 

Hello Friends,

Thursday of last week there was a knock at the front door. It was our local police. Hmmm, I wondered what was going on. I opened the door and he asked if I called in a complaint about our backyard neighbor. 

No, I did not. 

He went on to share that someone called in a complaint about all the garbage, vehicles and stuff that is piled everywhere, but did not leave their name. 

 Hmmm, I shared with him, our backyard is fenced in, but I can see through the fence and yes I do see the "collection of items".  But we did not call. 

He shared that they were asked to clean up the yard last summer by the leadership of the village. 

Hmmm, the memo must of gotten lost in the mail, because instead of cleaning up they added to the collection.  

He asked me who might have called in? 

I said most of us have put fence up so we do not need to see the disaster that has taken several years to make.  And that most of our neighbors that do have a relationship with each other have decided it no longer pays to call to complain because nothing gets done about it anyway. And we do not want to get on the bad side of this neighbor, because he already had some words with a different neighbor across the street. 

I think this surprised him, because he said, we are here to help.

I know you are I said. 

He was a young police officer, reminded me of our military son, eager to help.

He told me he hopes the village will enforce the ordinance.  

And he left. 

Hmmm,  I closed the door. Will the village enforce the ordinance?   

To Be Continued...

 

Note: I usually do not share the ugly stuff around my neck of the woods. Our neighborhood is fairly nice, we do have neighbors who help us without even asking.

I usually am an optimistic person, but with this matter I am rather discouraged.  How do you get someone to move piles of trash? Two campers, six cars, washing machines, freezers and refrigerators. This collection has been on going for several years. And earlier complaints go on deaf ears.

Does your community have a way to deal with such things, or do they pretend not to see and hear?