Winter Garden

Quince

Camilla

January is a big gardening month for me. 

It is 74 degrees and gorgeous outside.

This is what I did this morning:

Cut back 13 roses

Cut back all the perennials

Raked mulch from half the flower garden

Replaced  mulch with pine straw from our yard (free)

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I still have to rake the other half of the flower garden 

and place pine straw around the plants.

 In February I run over the monkey grass with the mower 

and cut back the butterfly bushes.

This is a before image with long scraggly roses 

and dogwood leaves all over the place.

The pine straw will settle down in a few days. The blank spots are where ground covers are. The plan here is eventually to have ground cover between plants and little need for mulch.

Clovis helped of course. 

I find peace in my little garden. 

All the hard space here needs updating.

I really do not mind. 

There is no money for it any way. 

The plants, sun, and joy of being outside are enough for me.

Linking@Wow Us Wednesdays

happy gardening

Olive

Black Onyx, Nekkid Man, and Kittens

How is that for a title?

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I had way too much fun at an estate sale this weekend.

I went Friday and purchased a few pieces of pottery and promised myself I would not go back.

So.

I was going to an art show on Saturday except I could not find it.

I was very berry close to the estate sale.

Promise to myself broken like a stale saltine cracker.

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Most everything except the Persian rug (I wanted it too) and large furniture was one half off.

I bought a Quimper tea cup and saucer, black onyx Fenton urns,  and best of all a large canvas transfer of a little girl holding two kittens.

The picture was difficult to photograph and the image does not do it justice. It is so pretty.

I almost forgot my nekkid man urn. Hehe he is nekkid I think!

I refashioned the dining table at the yellow house using the urns, an old brown bottle, and wrought iron pumpkin holder.

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I am linking with Marty at A Stroll Thru Life for Table Top Tuesday.

grace surrounds us

Olive

Doves

Doves,  on a head stone at the Old City Cemetery in Sandersville, Georgia. The Cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places.

These doves have been here for well over one hundred years. What a touching tribute for the death of a  loved one buried here in the nineteenth century.

Two little doves, snuggling as if it’s cold in this place.  The city has recently undertaken a restoration of this historic site. It also has  many angels, urns, ornate fences, and gates.

Does anyone do this any more? Wrap a plot in this sort of fence?  This is a magnificent gate. Victorian wrought iron. The Victorians did wrought iron with gusto. Even at the end of life.

Thanks for joining me in a stroll through the Old City Cemetery. Just so you know we were quite alone and there was a slight breeze felt and seen blowing in the Spanish Moss.

grace surrounds us

Olive