Fierce Winds

Hang onto your hats this morning – the wind is fierce and cold and blowing like heck…. but I’m not going to let that stop me. So, I’m bundled up for my morning walk. But hey, look.. there’s no ice!! And the predicted snow squall has missed us here in the south. It’s mid March, it’s Maine, it’s typically our “ muddy” season. No two weather days are the same here in March, and we all know very well we can march right back into winter right up until June… sigh 😟

With a little luck there will not be any power failures today, as we had yesterday in the monsoon rain storms that hung over us all day. I know it’s rushing the season but I can’t wait for some consistent warmth and the bluest of skies.

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Garden of Faith

Truth ❤️

“ There are many tired gardeners, but I’ve seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart.

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad many past gardens may have been, every gardener believes the next year’s will be better.

It’s easy to age when there’s nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for; gardeners, simply refuse to grow up.”

~ anonymous

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Lulu’s Ball

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Indoor Blooms

A few cuttings of forsythia and quince I brought indoors so I’d feel Spring had finally arrived. It worked! 😊 They finally flowered yesterday.

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Three Lambs and a Bag

Yesterday I popped over to my friend Rita’s farm to see the newest additions.. triplets! Sooo beautiful! Four more ewes are scheduled to deliver today of her flock of 30… I’d say it’ll be a busy weekend for my good friend.

Rita is a wool artist, spinner, farmer and owner of Rita’s Wooly Batts–as well as dear friend, who after cleaning and carding her wools, then hand dyes them naturally into wonderful rovings and finished skeins of gorgeously colorful selections. I have a new project I want to try.. felting.. so she send me home with a sack of her colorful batting scraps to practice on.

I chose to felt some my herbal soap bars, because. well, this soapmaker has plenty at hand. It was a fun process, though painstakingly long to get to the end result.

But this is what I really want to learn to achieve. I spotted them at a fair last summer, but the price tag was way out of my pocketbook! I just love the gorgeous colors 😊

Rita at work.

Colorful roving batts

Rita’s Wooly Batts

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Positano

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Green Shutters

Positano, Italy

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Cobeia

Today, I started my cobeia seedlings.. an annual that I’d never omit from my garden.

It’s one of the few annual climbers that does not require a lot of support… but will attach itself to anything in its way. LOL! Once it gets going, it grows fast, and big… easily two to three feet a day. I plant mine on each end of my arbor each year, and it has never failed me.. even through our summer nor’easters here.

And I love that it’s profuse flowers will keep flowering here through Halloween. Just a stunning summer vine.

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Snowy II

It was a lean winter for me spotting many snowy’s, so I was really taken aback this morn, spotting this female. I think she’s probably enroute…. heading back up north to home.

Til next winter.. summer well.

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The Dory IV

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