wedding shoes

violas :-)

lilacs

hearts

San Diego Zoo

fern

bud

patterns

Rose Garden

Wow, the roses in Golden Gate park at the rose garden are already completely gorgeous and bursting out in blooms :-) If I don't watch myself, the next dozen or so photos to be posted here may be ALL roses.

happiness

It was around this time 3 years ago (incidently, today, J & I have been married for 2 years and 10 months) that we had engagement photos taken in Golden Gate Park at the SF Botanical gardens. I've recently been looking back at pictures from that shoot, and I just love this one :-) The photo was taken by the fun and talented Jules Bianchi.

Godchildren make fun garden helpers :-)

This photo was shot by my husband - I love it!

Still working on the color translation...

Mother's day trip to Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania

A fern-y type plant - very lovely yellow-green - such an airy quality to it...

The Italian fountain garden seen through the ironwork fencing.

Purple-y flower. 'Nuff said.

Granny's favorite, and North Carolina's pride - the Dogwood!


One of my own personal loves, the Iris. So beautiful, especially in purple ;-)

These are all peeks into a trip Jonathan, Mom, and I took to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania for Mother's day this past May. It was such a beautiful day and we had a nice time drinking in the outdoors!

A community garden?

As I wandered around the park on Saturday evening, I discovered what appeared to be a very large garden. (This was at a park in Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor, MI for M & P's wedding rehearsal picnic) It turns out that this LARGE garden was in fact a community garden. So it seems that anyone can reserve a small plot in the garden and plant anything they wish...within reason.
Some gardens were filled with flowers, some with vegetables, and most were a somewhat balanced combination of both. It was fun and interesting to see the various people who had come over to the garden just around sunset to pick some produce/vegetables/herbs/flowers up for their evening meal. I seized the opportunity and the last bit of daylight to capture some of the beautiful garden sights.

The first photo up top is of a sunflower. It was a sunflower past its prime, very tall and bent over my head (so it was at least 6 feet tall). I gazed up into its center which was curved in and out in this lovely pattern. I'm reminded of the first time I learned about the fibonacci sequence from my mom. The patterns in the sunflower brought back some of those memories or pine cones, pineapples, and so many other mathematical patterns found in nature.

To the left here is a beautiful red flower. I'm not sure what it is called, but it has the shape of a daisy or a small sunflower. Perhaps it's a gerbera daisy? I don't know, but it was rustic and beautiful, and it brought perfect visions of walking in the countryside.

Finally, this evening star (?) caught my eye for the very obvious reason that it is an absolutely gorgeous shade of purple. There were so many lovely, natural flowers to see that evening, but I tore myself away and ended up taking pictures of people :-)

patio garden

I'm interrupting the Maine posts once again for a quick little post on the subject of cherry tomatoes!! :-) I can't wait until morning to see if they've ripened since last Thursday when we left for Chicago.

This picture was taken last Wednesday afternoon of one of my two cherry tomato plants (I also have two tomato plants of the celebrity variety). I've acquired quite a lovely potted garden out on our patio. We have three basil plants - Cuban, Sweet, and Mini Purple. In addition to the basil and tomatoes (do I sense some caprese salads in my future??), you will also find in my garden two rosemary plants, two chive plants, oregano, sage, thyme, parsley, dill, and assorted flowers such as petunias, marigolds, dianthus, nemesia, and bluebells.

I can't wait to see how everything has grown since I've been gone :-)

Butterflies in our Garden!!!!

Ok, so this is not in the Maine series of blog posts...

However, can you see why I got distracted????

This butterfly was flitting from marigold to marigold in my garden this noon as I was watering all of the plants (tomatoes, herbs, flowers, etc...).

I dashed into the house to get my camera, and when I returned, it was still over with the marigolds.

What an enchanting addition to my day. hmmm...