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A Walk In The Spring Garden
Happy Tuesday! I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend! Our weekend was a rainy one, with rain most of yesterday. We would normally be disappointed with a rainy holiday, but the rain was...
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Celebrating Mothers With Peonies
Happy Monday and welcome sweet friends! This coming Sunday, May 10, is Mother’s Day which is always a special day for our family! “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord...
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An April Tea In The Sunshine Cottage
Happy Tuesday my friends. Our spring continues to be a bit unusual. Yesterday morning our low was 37 degrees, a chilly start to the week. Late winter and early spring normally provides plenty of rain,...
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19 Spring & Easter Tablesettings
Happy Thursday sweet friends. I hope you have experienced a breath of spring where you live. We have definitely had spring-like temperatures in our Appalachian Foothills. “Give ear, O heavens, and I...
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A Year Of Memories Made With Flowers
Hello sweet friends. I sincerely hope everyone’s new year is off to a great start! “but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run...
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April & May In The Garden
Happy Thursday dear friends! Join me for a stroll in and around the garden! “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord...
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A Mother’s Love
Hello sweet friends and Happy Monday! This coming Sunday, May 11th is Mother’s Day which has always been a very special day for our family! “She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of...
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18 Spring & Easter Tablescapes
Welcome, sweet friends! Spring has arrived with a mixed bag of weather. We had frost three mornings last week and yesterday we had rain that at least washed away the pollen temporarily. The rest of the...
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Is It Spring Yet?
Happy Tuesday, friends. I don’t know about you, but I am ready for spring! Meteorological Spring begins March 1, which is this coming Saturday and I am going with it. This winter seems to have been...
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My Garden Journal
Hello sweet friends! It is mid-January and I am thinking about all things gardening, so much so, I’ve even ordered seeds…zinnias, sunflowers, and marigolds should arrive tomorrow ! “The wilderness and...
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2024’s Top Ten
Happy Thursday, sweet friends. I know most of you are experiencing icy cold weather! Our weather forecasters are saying that beginning early Friday morning we could have between 2-3 inches of snow and...
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A Year Of Flowers & Monday Morning Blooms
Hello sweet friends. I sincerely hope the New Year is off to a good start for you! “Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have...
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June Gardening In The South
Hello sweet friends and Happy Tuesday! For the past two days it has hit 100 degrees and today promises the same. Add breezes, and no rain for a few weeks, and gardening is challenging right now in our...
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A Breath Of Fresh Air
Hello sweet friends. I hope you are enjoying the first week of June! “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!” Psalm 34:8 (ESV) Last week, Butch...
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Lessons From My Mother
Hello sweet friends! The month of May is my favorite spring month with all of its blooming beauty and fun celebrations! May often brings on heat and humidity in our Appalachian Foothills. This week we...
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Peonies & Other Garden Happenings
Happy Tuesday sweet friends! Our gardening has gotten off to a slow start. With both of us having the flu at the same time, we certainly are behind. The Head Gardener has done all of the work so far,...
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Simple + Southern Sunday No. 493
”fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.“ Isaiah 41:10 (ESV) Low clouds and...
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Simple + Southern Sunday No. 490 – Easter
Wishing You A Wonderful Easter ”And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us...
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Farm Fresh Blooms In A Watering Can
Happy Monday sweet friends. I hope all of you enjoyed a wonderful weekend. It was an exciting one for us as we celebrated EM’s birthday and attended her school’s spring musical! “How much better to get...
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May Garden Notes
Hello sweet friends. Since, I sort of promised a garden update, I got busy and took photos on Tuesday! “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” Psalm 119:103 RM...
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