Purple flowers weren’t always my favorite, but purple and black were Charley’s high school colors, Mt. St. Joe in ‘Bawlmer’, and then when we got a football team after a long stretch without one, tough for a town like Baltimore who supports its teams, purple and black turned out to be the Raven’s colors, too. So when we moved to Florida Charley wanted only purple flowers in the yard, and I guess it rubbed off on me because that’s what catches my eye these days. I’ve been seeing photos of flowers lately, and I guess that’s what gave me the idea of going to the Nature Coast Botanical Garden today, and my first view didn’t give me a clue that there had been so much pruning going on in the garden. But once I was inside I saw all the trimmed up plants and knew that it will be a lot more colorful in the coming weeks. But it was beautiful, and there was a surprise in store.
I will return before too long because there is a nice butterfly garden here also, and in a few weeks the flowers won’t be the only colorful photo ops here…
I loved this little donkey planter that sat on a shelf in my mother’s house. I loved it enough that I claimed it for my own when my mother was the one doing the downsizing. I still love it, maybe it’s the colors? So I had just said that I needed to find a little plant to put in it. Something alive in the house, something to take care of. Then I went to Publix and the Christmas cactus were on sale. Just the thing I think. But my success rate with plants isn’t all that great so I hope I haven’t condemned the poor thing to death,
With Christmas on the brain the last couple of days I decided that I needed to find a spot for my tree, but there is no empty wall space in this tiny house. But where there’s will there’s a way because I found a spot. I’ve been itching to start sewing again. Normally that would be such a nice winter activity, except you can hardly call this Florida weather winter.
