Wordless Wednesday From Our Flower Garden

Double Orange Daylily

White Wednesday

More beautiful white blooms from our garden for this White Wednesday post.

white spirea up close

white spirea

severely trimmed back last fall

I never noticed how crooked our birdhouse looked

french lilac - white/pale lavender

french lilac, corner of garden by barn

rose champions

coming back strong again this year

white lilac up close

white lilac bush

corner of garden by 2nd drive way

The smell of the white lilacs is every bit as sweet and strong as our old fashioned purple lilacs, heavenly to be sure.

Many thanks to Kathleen at Faded Charm for hosting White Wednesdays. Head on over to her blog for more fabulous White Wednesday participants.

White Wednesday

Whites Blooming in the Garden

narcissus

daffodils

bradford pear tree

We finally have some whites blooming in the garden. They are so spectacular at night shining in all their glory.

Check out other great White Wednesday posts at Faded Charm.

White Wednesday

I'm joining Kathleen at Faded Charm for White Wednesday this week. I have one of Mom's white pineapple afghans she has made. They are 12 block afghans and are perfect to curl up with during these cold winter months. This particular one will be a wedding present for a friend's son.

just gorgeous

pineapple doily with my new scissors

from Yuko at Be Happy

Aren't they beautiful

full size picture of Mom's crochet afghan

White Wednesday

We Really Got Snow

After listening to the winter storm watches and warnings all week for this past weekend the snow finally started around 11:00 on Friday morning as flurries and continued through the afternoon. About 4:00 it started getting very heavy and covering the roads and appeared to be accumulating faster and faster - at least to us, who are not used to much if any snow during our winters. By the time it finished on Saturday morning we had about 5" on the ground and no ice.

Jennifer's house in all it's undisturbed beauty

our garden gate into the flower garden

hydrangeas by the front porch

fairy by the back porch and Mom's rose garden

backyard birdbath

cherub birdbath in Mom's rose garden

flower garden

swing in the flower garden

We had such a cold and beautiful weekend with all the snow and since none of us had to get out and go to work on Saturday it was enjoyable. Jennifer did have to work Sunday and had trouble getting out of her drive so Mom and I shoved it during the afternoon so the sun could melt it and she could get out on Monday with no problems.

We had no mail delivery on Saturday but Mom had to check just to make sure later in the day. She put on Alan's big ole boots and shuffled her way to the mailbox and back. It was a sight to behold.

Check out Kathleen at Faded Charm for more great White Wednesday blogs.

Foggy White Wednesday

Freezing Fog Mornings

what a way to start the week

on the way to work

sounded like freezing rain at times

the one clear spot in the fog

still not melted from the past 2 weeks of extreme cold

Thanks to Kathleen at Faded Charm for hosting White Wednesday. She has so many links to other White Wednesday participants you can visit.

White Wednesday

We Got Snow

only 1/2" but that is enough for us

baby magnolia

angel girl by the porch

large pot in the middle of the flower garden

benches covered

newest no water fountain in the garden

doves watching over the garden

birth baths we forgot to take down full

little pond covered up

It started snowing around 8 am Thursday morning and snowed all day. We finally had about 1/2" by the end of the day with snow flurries all day Friday and Saturday. We might have ended up with maybe 1" by Sunday morning. Everything looked so beautifully pristine white. After an extremely cold past 10 days we are starting to warm up again and the snow will disappear hopefully until next year.

Check out Kathleen at Faded Charm for more great White Wednesday posts.

White Wednesday at Jennifer's House

We thought Sunday afternoon was going to be another beautiful sunny day so we planned on painting at Jennifer's so her house would be ready for winter since Mom finished the painting on our house and we had left over paint. We did get it painted but never did see the sun come out - nothing like a cool cloudy day to make one's paint brush move faster and faster.

front steps ready for painting

corner of front porch, scraped - sanded and ready for new white paint

finished and ready for winter

her lions standing guard on her newly painted front porch

Visit Kathleen at Faded Charm for more wonderful White Wednesday blogs.

Happy Thanksgiving

Sandy

White Wednesday

This Wednesday I have some black and some white. I'm showing a few of my swans I have collected over the years along with 2 cross stitch pictures my daughter stitched for me in Christmas' past.

1st picture she cross stitched for me was this gorgeous black swan

she still lived at home at the time and managed to keep it a complete secret

black swan figurine I found at the Royal Dutch

my 2nd second cross stitched picture from Jennifer, these beautiful white swans

she had her home by this time so I didn't know anything about them either

white swan figurines

beautiful white swan figurine Jennifer gave me for Christmas one year

Thanks to Kathleen at Faded Charm for hosting White Wednesdays and check out her blog for more wonderful White Wednesday blogs.

Sandy