Good morning spring!

 What a beautiful day!  The sun is shining so bright.  Just what I've been waiting for, sunshine and warm weather.   It's been a really long winter.   

We have some early blooming flowers spreading a bit of color around the garden.     

The pollen is here and the bees are buzzing.   

Strawberry blossoms!  

And the azaleas are getting ready to show their beautiful colors.  

Glorious spring!

Early morning beauty in the garden.

 Early this morning as I glanced out the bedroom window I could see a white glistening frost covering the garden.  It was beautiful!  With my cup of coffee and camera in hand I headed outside.  

The pansies looked like they were dipped in sugar ready to eat.    

Soft, white, and beautiful!  

 Sad to say, by noon, it was all gone.  

Decorating for the season

One of the things I love to do this time of year is plant pansies.  

These pretty flowers are certain to bring color all winter long, and carry through to the spring season here in the south.  

You can buy cascading pansies for hanging pots and hang them outside your window where you can see them every day!  

I am also catching up on my inside fall decorating here at Mourning Dove Cottage.  

I dried these large hydrangea blooms late in the summer.  

I like to put them in urns on the fireplace mantel.  

A few ceramic pumpkins and some berries.   

Pumpkins everywhere.  

I'm a bit late with my fall decorations, but better late than never ~ 
next week we will be getting out all of our Christmas things, right?

Hope you're enjoying this beautiful season!    

Flowers make gray days more pleasant...

looking from inside my window to the outside cold




it's nice to see some other color than just gray.







These pansies and purple cabbages in my window boxes are a happy sight.

Enjoy your day!

Donna

Finding color in the back yard

I still have some flowers blooming in the back yard even though it's the end of November. The pansies will bloom all winter into spring.

The leaves on the crape myrtle are gorgeous right now.

I love having color all year long, whether it be flowers or berries,

or leaves.

This geranium is by the front door. Bright and cheery to welcome visitors!

Do you have color in your yard?

Colorful pansies

Since I spent the day outside yesterday planting pansies and cabbages, I still have pansies on my mind. They are the prettiest flowers and come in so many colors.

I had to paint them.

Painted on a wooden serving tray...

and will be listed in my shop soon. I just have to final coat the tray and put the handles on.

Pansies and cabbages

It's a good day for fall planting. The weather is mild today, high 68, sunny and beautiful.

I'm planting pansies and ornamental cabbages.

The pansies will go in pots on the back porch and by the doors, and the ornamental cabbages (kale) will go in the window boxes on the front of the house. I chose pretty creamy yellow and maroonish colored pansies this year.....so many colors to choose from, and the nice thing is they will bloom until next spring and early summer. The kale will continue to grow all year and if you cut it back in the summer it will come up again in the fall.

That's what I'm doing today....happily digging in the dirt!

What are you up to today?

Pansies and cabbages

Every year around this time I like to plant pansies and ornamental cabbages. They're a wonderful winter plant and they bring pretty color to the garden and porch.




The purples and blues look stunning when and if we get a dusting of snow.

Riley thinks this is a good idea.