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Welcoming Fall

Posted in Adventures, Garden, tagged , , , , on October 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Summer seemed to linger this year in the northwest.  For most of September the days were sunny and warm, the leaves remaining green.  This last week, autumn officially arrived with cooler temperatures, blustery days, snow in the mountains, and the opening of the local pumpkin patches!  Washington is a leading producer of pumpkins and one [...]

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Visiting a Dahlia Farm

Posted in Adventures, Garden, tagged , , , , , on September 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Welcome blogging friends on your tour of beauty from The Inspired Room!
The last day of summer started out cold and 43 degrees.  As the sun climbed higher in the sky, the day warmed up and I decided to  visit a dahlia farm I found on a drive this weekend.  Jim’s Dahlia Farm is in the [...]

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Hometown Flowers

Posted in Garden, Sacred Life Sunday, tagged , , , , , , , on August 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »

In celebration of the last day of August, I wanted to take you on a flower tour of my hometown.

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The Summer Queen

Posted in Garden, tagged , , , , on August 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »

“Beautiful colors are not out there:  they are inside our brains,
in our minds, experienced in our hearts,
and then seen with our eyes.”- Alexandra Stoddard

I’m catching up on my weeding this week after being gone the month of July.  Some of my flowers are not liking the heat or neglect this summer. One  flower [...]

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Saying Goodbye to Spring

Posted in Garden, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »

This year, spring came in struggling with winter, with winter shaking it’s fist blowing snow over the tender buds. Eventually spring triumphed gently and warmly, filling the earth with a parade of ever changing foliage.

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June’s Rose

Posted in Garden, Life at Home, tagged , , , , , on June 2, 2009 | 10 Comments »

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it is always June”
- L.M. Montgomery

One of my favorite months of the year is June.  The rain leaves for the season, sunshine and blue skies come back again to the pacific northwest, the days are finally warm, and best of [...]

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Thinking of Lilac Trees

Posted in Garden, Sacred Life Sunday, tagged , , , , , on May 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »

“I’m thinking of lilac-trees,
that shook their purple plumes,
And when the sash was open,
Shed fragrance through the room.”

One of my favorite seasons is here…lilac season.  It is a short season, only lasting a few weeks. The landscape is filled with lavender lilac bouquets,  especially when you drive through the old historical neighborhoods.  Lilacs, like  [...]

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Forget-me-not

Posted in Garden, tagged , , , , on April 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »

Warm sunny days have caused the Forget-me-not flowers to bloom at our house this week.  I have a stone path that leads to the front door of our home and on each side is a flower bed that runs along beside it. In the early spring it is lined with these sweet blue flowers.  A [...]

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Hope Blooms

Posted in Garden, Life at Home, Sacred Life Sunday, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Where flowers bloom so does hope.-Lady Bird Johnson

My dad visited us in Washington state one spring when the cherry trees bloomed, and was amazed with their huge bouquets of pink blossoms.  He was from Arkansas where the small dogwoods brighten the brown woods with their small flash of pink and white.  While they are lovely [...]

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