sequence ...

After a few days of heavy rain

our lilac bush was water logged and her branches were literally touching the grass.

After a bit of pruning to take the stress from some of the branches

we have  a lovely tin filled with blooms for our deck ♥

bleeding heart are looking so pretty in our shade garden

archer ... our sweet garden "helper"

lily of the valley have spread wildly & beautifully

columbine

garden visitors and butterfly spottings

♥heart shaped wings♥

a little garden journaling/reading

Live * Life * Lantern

I created this linen hand painted garden lantern a few years ago.

During the summer months, we like to make our outdoor space as comfortable as inside,

and our gazebo is one spot in the garden that we thoroughly enjoy.

Sitting under the honeysuckle vine covered roof, it is here that strings of tiny white lights are wrapped overhead, clay pots are stuffed full of our favourite flowers, big comfy cushions are tossed on chairs, a quilt sits on our garden swing to throw over our legs in the evening and my ever - growing collection of garden tchotchkes is dispersed.

{more photos of my Live* Life* Lantern can be found in the Summer 2015 issue of Sew Somerset (pages 60-63) along with full instructions on how to create }

purple sand cherry

"Let your life

be the epic poem that it is.

Embrace each moment

on its own merit.

One at a time,

in the sequence

in which it happens"

~Veronique Vienne~