as luck would have it…

the rain Mother Nature dropped on us knocked the leaf into it’s opposite colored grass & i happened to have camera in hand.

the flower puzzles me

i found this blossom at a nursery. the plant only had the one flower & one bud. the bud was the strange yellow color like the flower pictured. did someone create this bizarre flower on purpose? i still can’t tell if i like it or not…but it certainly caught my attention.

Lavender for your vacuum cleaner?

i have a bed of different types of lavender. i dry the flowers inside, in a vase without water. might as well look beautiful as they dry. after the blossoms have dried, i keep them in a jar. when i vacuum the rugs, i add the dried lavender into the vacuum container. when i’m finished,…

i don’t know what it is, but i want it…

ok. i grew up in a very small town. every store/shop/doctor was owned by MY neighbor. Montpelier, Vermont doesn’t want big chains to take over the uniqueness of the town. my father had his own practice as the local optometrist. i gotta tell you, wherever my father went, people would greet him by name. i…

eye candy inside Oak Street Garden Shop

forgive the quality of the photographs, i had only my phone with me when i walked in this wonderful nursery. oakstreetgardenshop.com family owned & operated in Birmingham, Alabama