Thankful {things I love} Thursday ...

After two disappointments at trying to root an avocado pit ...

third time really did turn out to be a charm :-)

seems each morning, the taproot stretches a teeny bit more out of it's shell!

I am soooooo excited. It really has been fascinating to watch as the shell cracked open.

Vases filled with garden peonies scattered all through the house

AND

the beginnings of a new avocado plant!!!!

It has been raining for most of the day & wonderfully cool {my kind of weather}

I have been jotting down garden notes & sketches to keep track of my avocado's progress ...

 

Took this little Country Living Garden Journal that I've had  for years off the shelf & it was  fun to look back at my "Wish Lists" and Garden Logs from years gone by.

  In 2001 I noted that our garden was filled with Geraniums, Silver Dusty Miller,  Impatients, Petunias, Dianthus, Lamb's ears, Yarrow, Coreopsis, Morning Glory vine,  Cosmos, Vinca, Bachelor's Buttons, Lavatera, Shasta Daisy, Cone flower,  Delphiniums, Sweet peas, Russell lupins, Larkspur, Portulaca & Pansies.  Pink was the predominant colour where as now I prefer red.

In 2005 my new favourite annual was Cleome & I noted that I had filled window boxes, pots, as well as garden beds with them.

After reading about the Heavenly Blue Morning Glory, I remembered one summer it had self-seeded and we found our garden filled - front and back with Morning Glory EVERYWHERE.  

And then there is

this sweetest little Carolina wren who finds shelter under our garden deck. We only have one.

I just love her chunky little body & upturned tail ♥

Carolina wren & emerald green, raindrop covered leaves gave me inspiration ...

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Time to put on the rain boots & find some puddles :-D

A man is getting old

when he walks around a puddle

instead of in it

~R. C. Ferguson~