leaf me here…

during the fall, make sure you remember to look down…because all that beautiful foliage falls. Sometimes, perfectly.

pots of gold

  Leaf & Petal @ the Birmingham Botanical Gardens

i see red

  it made me very happy. looks like wee cherries.

the sun shines from within

i found these waterlilies at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens yesterday. Birmingham has a cold snap right now. The nights got into the mid 20s, the cold didn’t effect these beauties at all. ~amy

alabama Scottish thistle…

planted in my garden in honor of my maternal grandmother & her mother. my great grandmother immigrated to Vermont from Scotland, by herself, when she was 18 years old. I love knowing her courage & hope that is in me.