That is just gorgeous! I think I would spend all day there too. I love this time of year when all the flowers are blooming and my garden is going nuts. =]
I've spent a lot of time in my own garden the past couple of months. It kind of takes away the stiff neck, upset stressed stomach, and headaches. Actually, I think a lot of us have been in our gardens lately, courtesy of the world we are living in! Gardening truly IS good for the soul.
Beautiful! I've just started gardening this year. After finally dumping my ex, I'm starting to remember that there are actually things out there that *I* like to do! And gardening is one of them!!!!
I wish my garden was blooming, but there's nothing as yet. Yes, some greening up, but that's it. I keep hoping the day lilys will sprout soon, but I know it's ridiculously early for May in Michigan.
But today is gorgeous in Michigan (rain later) and I have your flowers to feast my eyes upon.
Gorgeous photographs. I just did a post today about the same thing. Just wear thick gloves - your nails will be fine. Have fun. It's a beautiful day out!
oh funny story for you....i just found out my stepmom has lung cancer and only 15 months to live. one of the fellow teachers found out and came running in my room during show and tell and i immediately started crying because i knew she knew and all of my emotions just poured out- with a hannah montana doll in my lap, i put my head in my lap as well. the kids started yelling "don't cry on the toys!!!" what a sensitive bunch they are.
Beautiful poppy bed! I will have to check your profile ... you must live a little south of Ohio. My poppies are just growing. I also saw an old fashioned bleeding heart.... And the blue flowers??? I am stumped. They look like a perennial?
Thank you for sharing. I love to garden. I did a post earlier this week? on how I like to garden competitively with my neighbors.
Beautiful! I don't have a manicure but I also don't like to garden! I love my 4 rose bushes that supply my house with pretties, that's enough for me. Your flowers are wonderful!
Such beautiful flowers. I too love to garden but mainly, it's a good excuse for me to play in the dirt! LOL I hope that it's just the relaxing and peace that you need.
Can I come help? So much more fun to work in beauty already in full swing than thinking of digging the compost piles into my garden and beginning the planting, two months late. So beautiful. I'd have to cut and bring those inside.
p.s. The bleeding hearts have a place in your garden, don't they? Funny how the bleeding heart can add to the beauty and the depth of a garden. Even that has its place.
What a great Mother's Day treat to see all your blooming flowers. The gardens around here won't look anything like that for a few weeks, mine included. Thanks!
Simply Beautiful. That is, the fact that you can post pictures of flowers and get 70 comments and I post a picture of my cleavage and get 3. And you wonder why I drink?
gorgeous. I'm trying to have something of a garden - something that I won't kill too easily. I'm hoping for no more frost so I can plant the pretty flowers that are hanging out in my garage.
That does look like a place of replenishment. I need a place like that. Right now I'm going to the side yard where there are budding wisteria vines growing across our large arbor. Sometimes it's shady and cool enough in there to hang out. Alas, the kids or the dogs always find me in short order.
I spent time in my garden this weekend too, but your's looks better than mine. Are those poppies? Do you feel compelled to quote the Wicked Witch when you're in that part of the garden? Hell with the manicure - that garden is worth it!
That is just gorgeous! I think I would spend all day there too. I love this time of year when all the flowers are blooming and my garden is going nuts. =]
ReplyDeleteFabulous! I'd love to join you in the destruction of weeds and, of course, my manicure :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous gardens. Still too early here for flowers. Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteI've spent a lot of time in my own garden the past couple of months. It kind of takes away the stiff neck, upset stressed stomach, and headaches. Actually, I think a lot of us have been in our gardens lately, courtesy of the world we are living in! Gardening truly IS good for the soul.
ReplyDeleteIt has been a long cold winter up here and things are just beginning to bloom. Your garden is an inspiration.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I've just started gardening this year. After finally dumping my ex, I'm starting to remember that there are actually things out there that *I* like to do! And gardening is one of them!!!!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteShould I be alarmed that you're growing such a large display of poppies?
Enjoy the dirt! My mother swears that it's the best therapy on Earth, and I totally agree.
Wow. That's a BIG garden. Are you sure you don't need some professional help?
ReplyDeleteI know I do. But not for gardening. hee hee
Beautiful. Just beautiful. Dig in!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy! Sure is a pretty flower garden.
ReplyDeleteDi
The Blue Ridge Gal
Spring is in the air.
ReplyDeleteYour garden meshes perfectly with the mountain next door.
Serenity indeed.
So you sooth your soul in a field of poppies? Not that I'm judging or anything.
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful! Enjoy your day.
ReplyDeleteThose poppies are very beautiful, and your garden looks as lovely as you are, VKMom...
ReplyDeleteAnd, what do you mean, you don't go to the mini-bar, or liquor store, to unwind after all??! xox
Niiice. Makes me want to enhance the boring bushes in front of my house. I have nothing out there except those little bushes and old fallen leaves!
ReplyDeleteI wish my garden was blooming, but there's nothing as yet. Yes, some greening up, but that's it. I keep hoping the day lilys will sprout soon, but I know it's ridiculously early for May in Michigan.
ReplyDeleteBut today is gorgeous in Michigan (rain later) and I have your flowers to feast my eyes upon.
Enjoy your day, I am doing the same. I love your flowers they are beautiful and thick. Gorgeous!!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Gardening is one of my favs.
ReplyDeleteThat was my yesterday. Today I'll work on being able to move again!
ReplyDeleteThat is what I need to do this afternoon. yet the lure of reading blogs and playing online games has sucked me in!!
ReplyDeleteI hate gardening.
ReplyDeleteNice flowers though.
Just been chatting to my wife - we're probably moving house soon.
"What kind of garden would you like?" she asked.
"One without grass," I said.
"What if is the perfect house but has grass?"
"I'll pay someone to dig it up," I replied.
(as a lifestyle choice I don't mow grass)
I wish I could garden without killing the plants. I can't seem to manage it.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely! I wish I could manage a lovely flower garden!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. I love to garden. Even when my roses attack me. And win.
ReplyDeletebeautiful photos...looks like a great place to escape to ruin your manicure...giggle :)
ReplyDeleteLook at those poppies! We can't get them to grow like that in these parts.
ReplyDeleteLOVE the poppies! Is the purple bee balm? I've never seen it in purple?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful gardens - I feel the peace. And the dirty fingernails!
Ahhhhhhh!
how lovely. reminds me of colorado.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful.. We should all have a place like that
ReplyDeleteWhere's the bar? I know it's hiding in there somewhere.
ReplyDeletelovely garden, vm!
ReplyDeletemy own 'haven'... a stroll in the forest :)
Gorgeous photographs. I just did a post today about the same thing. Just wear thick gloves - your nails will be fine. Have fun. It's a beautiful day out!
ReplyDeleteAre those poppies? They are beautiful!
ReplyDeletei guess i don't have to point out the fact that your thumb must be an extraordinary shade of bright green.
ReplyDeletejust started gardening- would love a full view photo of your garden...
ReplyDeletewow, i absolutely love those orange flowers! thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletestopping by from SITS to say hi
oh funny story for you....i just found out my stepmom has lung cancer and only 15 months to live. one of the fellow teachers found out and came running in my room during show and tell and i immediately started crying because i knew she knew and all of my emotions just poured out- with a hannah montana doll in my lap, i put my head in my lap as well. the kids started yelling "don't cry on the toys!!!"
ReplyDeletewhat a sensitive bunch they are.
And to think ... I thought you went to the liquor store for soul soothing.
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are gorgeous! Makes my puny bed and pots look like a second grader planted them-or my husband. That would soothe my soul!
ReplyDeleteNope; nothing like it. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful poppy bed! I will have to check your profile ... you must live a little south of Ohio. My poppies are just growing. I also saw an old fashioned bleeding heart.... And the blue flowers??? I am stumped. They look like a perennial?
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. I love to garden. I did a post earlier this week? on how I like to garden competitively with my neighbors.
We are also to the finish line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok... I looked closer. I think the blue ones are bachelor buttons. And, in the close up... I spotted some shasta daisies mixing it up.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could garden. My mother can and has beautiful plants in her yard.
Me? I have a bunch of weeds and a dead rose bush. I have absolutely no idea how to garden properly.
The poppy bed is gorgeous as are the rest of what we can see!
ReplyDeleteHappy mom's day.
Your garden is lovely, and I can think of no better place to be!
ReplyDeleteWow, that is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI ruined my manicure today, too. Love your garden! The flowers are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLove the title of this post.
Your flowers are beautiful! I always liked the idea of having a garden...
ReplyDeleteMy yard looks like Mordor...I'll make you martinis and you can have a ball making my yard look better..
ReplyDeleteDirt under the nails has always been sexier than a manicure.
ReplyDeleteThese are beautiful! You really must have a green thumb!
ReplyDeleteThose flowers are simply good for the soul.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I don't have a manicure but I also don't like to garden! I love my 4 rose bushes that supply my house with pretties, that's enough for me. Your flowers are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty ! I not only cannot garden, I cannot take good pics of flowers. I know, I tried tonight
ReplyDeleteSo pretty!
I love flower gardens. Beautiful shots Vodka, and a very happy Mother's Day to you.
ReplyDeleteI wish I loved gardening, it seems to be so therapeutic for so many people.
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful flowers. I too love to garden but mainly, it's a good excuse for me to play in the dirt! LOL I hope that it's just the relaxing and peace that you need.
ReplyDeleteCan I come help? So much more fun to work in beauty already in full swing than thinking of digging the compost piles into my garden and beginning the planting, two months late. So beautiful. I'd have to cut and bring those inside.
ReplyDeleteSo worth the ruined manicure (and a good excuse to go get another one!!). Hope you are having a great Momma's Day weekend!!
ReplyDeleteI needed to do that today too but instead I went to the beach. I'm such a bad girl.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day.
I have total garden envy
ReplyDeleteLovely spot in your garden. The beauty of flowers never fails to give us hope.
ReplyDeleteHave a good day!
p.s. The bleeding hearts have a place in your garden, don't they? Funny how the bleeding heart can add to the beauty and the depth of a garden. Even that has its place.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day.
Love the poppies and the bleeding hearts and thewhole garden! Gardening is good for the soul. Happy Mother's Day.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day!!!!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day! :)
No, nothing quite like it...unless it's the same scene far from home. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Muthu's Day!
Gorgeous flowers! I'm soothed by playing in the dirt and tending to flowers too... Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great Mother's Day treat to see all your blooming flowers. The gardens around here won't look anything like that for a few weeks, mine included. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSimply Beautiful. That is, the fact that you can post pictures of flowers and get 70 comments and I post a picture of my cleavage and get 3. And you wonder why I drink?
ReplyDeletegorgeous. I'm trying to have something of a garden - something that I won't kill too easily. I'm hoping for no more frost so I can plant the pretty flowers that are hanging out in my garage.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy!
Oh heaven, and I don't blame you one bit. GORJ.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mama's Day!
Happy Mom's Day .... hope you enjoy a martini !
ReplyDeleteIt's a gardens kind of day, isn't it? I love your poppies! I have never been able to get them so lush.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day.
yes, your garden certainly DOES look soothing.
ReplyDeleteHAPPY MOTHERS' DAY!
~maria
my family blog: with my whole heart
That does look like a place of replenishment. I need a place like that. Right now I'm going to the side yard where there are budding wisteria vines growing across our large arbor. Sometimes it's shady and cool enough in there to hang out. Alas, the kids or the dogs always find me in short order.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mama's Day. Enjoy your garden.
Is that yours? It is beautiful. I love poppies. I wish I had some.
ReplyDeleteThat is just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLooks like my grandmother's gardens from way back! People just don't have pretty gardens like that any more.
I found that even working on the weeding, etc. was fun in a pretty garden like that! I'm so jealous!
Grannie
82nd comment. *sigh* I'm still not on top of things. Memba a week or so ago when I was first? That was a good day.
ReplyDeletePictures are beautiful. I hope you really ruined your manicure.
Happy Mother's Day to you!
gawwwgeous... sounds like your version of my "riding my horse" therapy :)
ReplyDeletegp
I totally get it.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day!
Da Goddess
dagoddess.com
That is just beautiful! Just found you through SITS and poked around a bit. Fun blog! Following...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! So hoping we get a yard this summer so i can have a garden..(for the 2 weeks of summer we have...)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful garden! I'll come over with a book and a cup of tea to sit near it while you tackle the weeds!
ReplyDeleteNothing like gardening for a persosn's soul.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm....that looks like a whole LOT of poppies, do you harvest them?
I spent time in my garden this weekend too, but your's looks better than mine. Are those poppies? Do you feel compelled to quote the Wicked Witch when you're in that part of the garden?
ReplyDeleteHell with the manicure - that garden is worth it!
These are gorgeous, Vodka! I cannot wait for mine to come up this summer :o)
ReplyDeleteI passed a garden with the exact same poppies yesterday. It was a great morning lift. I adore them.
ReplyDeleteA poppy field on the heels of "All Hail Dorothy" How appropriate!