June Garden

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. 

Luther Burbank

Pretty garden

Love the big peonies.  They remind me of my grandma's backyard.  I wish I had some pink ones, but I think the touch of red in these white ones is beautiful.  The only flower I've cut & brought into the house as they are laying on the ground outside!  I need to cage them or give them something to hold up the huge flower.

My favorite...poppies.  I love these giant red flowers and all of my poppy pictures look the same, but I continue to take them.  I have them growing in three different places in my yard & they continue to make me smile every time I look at them.

Pink carnations.  Last year the chipmunks ate every single bloom.  This year, they seem to be leaving them alone.  {I hate chipmunks}

These are pretty in my container. 

The iris.  Such a delicate and beautiful flower .  These are going crazy in my garden...and I need to think the plants, but they are so pretty!  It's hard to dig some up.  

Time in the Garden

My flowers are in full bloom & I took too many pictures yesterday.

Summer Snow Ball

Flower Forest

My favorite black eyed susans

Bee food

The best Gerbers ever

Reach for the Sky

happy

cone flower hiding

daisies

three in a row

my impatient wagon

zoom

bright sun ~ snow white

stuff from today

I need to go take a nap.  Jacob flew to Colorado this morning...and I slept like I always do before Jacob flies by himself.  He's rather a rock star about it now...but I still sent my baby on a plane all alone, and that freaks me out.  I hide it better, but I'm still freaked out.
But today's small world story is great:
I really contemplated just dropping the kid off.  He can get through security & find his gate no problem...but on Frontier, it's cheaper to check your bags than carry on {which is not a bad thing...as I hate how long it takes to get on and off a plane with all the carry on luggage...but the fact that we have to pay to hold things on the plane...UGH}  Anyway.  I figure I need {ok, want} to go & help the kid check his bag.  We're waiting in the crazy, very slow moving line...letting all the South Meyers, Florida people cut in line {why they are being rewarded because they were late to the airport is beyond me} & everyone is grumbling, which starts us talking with the people around us.  I realize that the girl in front of us is the athletic trainer from South High School...who I sat by at JB's last tennis match...where we talked about summer plans and her upcoming trip to Denver.  And Jacob is on the same flight.  So crazy.
We finally make it to the counter & the lady says that Jacob can't take his tennis racquet in his back pack because it hangs out.  {silly rule if you ask me, as it was fine the last time he flew Frontier}  We try to put it in his suitcase, but it won't fit.  Sarah, the trainer, says, "It'll fit in mine & you can get it in Denver."  Seriously.  She unzipped her suitcase, rearranged stuff & put in the racquet.  She even gave JB her cell # in case they had trouble hooking up in Denver.
Gotta love life.

So JB is in Colorado & that's a great thing.

I came home & ran & took picture of my flowers:

And then I finished watching Breaking Bad.  I think I'm a worse person for having watched the series & I'm glad it's over.  I just wish I knew what happens to Jesse.  I really think he drove straight into a tree.

 

things that make me smile

Stressful day at work...and I'm starting to get a cold...and it was hot and windy...and I stress ate yesterday.  So I went for a run.  And a simple act of human kindness made me smile.  I was running down Bates & a blue Chevy pick up truck, coming at me, slowed way down, stopped & rolled down the passenger side window.  I was a little skeptical, but I took out my ear bud & looked in.  I hear something...about a coyote...by the time it registers I'm past him, so I stop & go back to the window & he says, "I just passed two coyotes back there." & I look up and see one cross the road.  I kinda thought I'd be ok, but I figured he was thoughtful enough to worry about me, I needed to heed the warning.  So I turned around & took another route.  Smiling.
And my garden is blooming.  Not just one poppy today.  A whole bunch.  And peonies too.