Tennessee Countryside

Sometimes all you need is a mid-week drive down a country road.

 

 

 

 

 

Timeless Treasures

My grandmother used to spend her down-time embroidering.

Tablecloths, runners, hand towels, and the likes.

It takes a lot of patience to work the needle, especially in fading eye-sight and many times after a long day of work.

I love using these tablecloths when setting the table, they remind me of gentler times, and the love and pride our grandparents took to make the lives of others more uncommon.

 

 

Foggy Start

Our morning started with a heavy fog, one that didn't lift until well into the morning hours.
Heavy pop-storms are now the evening normal, and lightning quivers in the night sky.
Down on Main Street there are signs of  July 4th decorations being hung, red, white and blue adorning the town square.
The Summer flowers are steadfastly holding on...

Hello Summer

"Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond. The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing."

~Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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June In Bloom

The flowers are happy with the rainfall that fell today.
It's a pleasant change, leaving the sunshine behind darkened clouds, one less day of lugging the watering can around.

Summer is just around the corner, how time flies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heat

Our days have quickly gone from cool Spring weather to hot, humid and dry, the trees are beginning to lose their leaves. Keeping flowers watered in ninety degrees is a challenge in itself.

The Columbine seems to love the heat, I've offered it my portion....

Dinner Guest

We had an unannounced dinner guest last night, a nibble here, a nibble there, a nibble everywhere.....

*sigh*

  

Bloomin' Lovely

The Lavender is in bloom, I've tied bunches with garden string and hung from the herb rack to dry.
The smell is intoxicating.
We've had more than our share of rainfall this Spring, and the flowers are showing their gratitude for it.

The lightning bugs have returned,  a definite sign that Summer is just around the corner.
Almost June.....where do the weeks go...