Just back from witnessing spring come to Asheville, North Carolina and am posting my pics on Flickr. Everything from tulips, redbuds, cherry trees and daffodils were blooming a few days after snow had graced the area. My oldest daughter and I enjoyed a trip to the spa (one of the best, ever) at Grove Park Inn. It was most loverly.
Also just loverly:
- The stunning performance (you must have seen it by now, like the rest of the world) by the never-been-kissed 37 year-old Scottish lady, Susan Boyle, born ninth of nine children, who struggled in school as a child and lived with parents to help care for them as they aged, got up on stage in London and wowed the talent judging panel with her song from Les Miserables. It had over 11 million views by this morning on YouTube. I'm getting a bunch of emails with the link -- my first one, Sunday, had only 2 million views then. The judges faces as they witnessed her talent were just surprising and sweet as her performance. Other iterations of the video are also getting millions of hits.
- Knock Out Roses: This advice from a professional gardener in Dallas for my new-to-Dallas married daughter - "knockout roses are bullet proof. they are green all year, bloom from march to november. You can let them grow into 6 foot tall shrubs or cut them to 18" and pretty much do the cutting whenever you want to....They are pretty much disease proof and they like a little fertilizer from time to time. They can be used as specimens, hedges, or backdrop." I'll be planting Russian sage in my Santa Fe xeriscape. Looks like lavender.
- Carolyn Wharton Caladiums, xtra large out of Sebring, Florida -- my favorites. The most loverly of caladiums in my opinion. I've planted them in three states. I've lost the form through moves of the place that my mother and I both use but they are also here. Great in shade and porch pots. Oh, I love them.
- Change, though difficult, can be loverly: empty nest, for example, is quite delightful. It is like dating all over again. Visiting with one of my new docent friends from Santa Fe, who also moved there full-time when I did, told me of how she finds herself in loverly good places in relationship areas of her life which would not have happened had she not moved. Or maybe it might have happened with years and years of therapy.
Loverly Loverly Loverly Cheers.
What can I say except loverly!?
Posted by: Kay Dennison | April 16, 2009 at 03:27 PM