My new favorite flower

I have fallen in love again...

with water lilies. They are just so georgeous!

When my mom was up visiting, we visited the Chicago Botanic Gardens. I always forget until I see them, that I love these flowers so much! And I was surprised to see them still blooming in October.

These pictures were taken in the late afternoon, but I think it makes them more vivid with all the colors and shadows.

Just thought I'd share!

New Things Bloomin' in the Garden

Lots of new things are blooming. We have lots of daylillies that are finally making an appearance and I'm happy to report that they are a lovely shade of ORANGE! Hooray!

We also had a mystery weedy thing growing that I thought could be a purposefully planted flower. Turns out it's a pretty pink phlox.

Lots of my zinnias are now blooming, too. I have a mixed color pot, white, and green "envy" zinnias. So pretty! I love spending time in the garden nowadays looking at all the flowers and seeing the insects buzzing around.

Hooray for Summer!

Messy Me...

I've been busy attempting to clean up our guest bedroom (aka my sewing room) in anticipation of a few guests that will be staying here over the course of the summer. This room is so embarrassingly messy and piled high with washed, but not ironed, folded or put away fabric that I can't even bear to show you a picture. I'll just wait until it's all neat and tidy to show you what it looks like. Hopefully that will be soon! .... In the meantime, here's some lovely pictures of flowers in our garden that are bloomin' right now. Enjoy!

Out in the Garden

I've been going garden crazy!

The backyard & porch gardens have been mesmerizing me lately. I find myself wandering outside just to see what's going on. Are there new buds? What's on it's way out? How are the veggies doing?

Here's a few pics of some discoveries I made this weekend.

I captured (on film) our first butterfly visitor (a painted lady on our coreopsis).

Our Earthbox with tomatoes is growing out of control and we have two tomatoes starting to get bigger every day.

And this weekend I found our very first eensy-weensy bean starting.

It's all very exciting!