Garden Delights!

Hello everyone,

Thank you to all of you who left kind words yesterday and to all of you who came to visit. As always it is nice to go away for a holiday but nice to be back home again.After some visiting with children and grandchildren we got back to doing some painting but I am hopeful the carpenter will be back today and finish by the weekend. It will be nice to finish up because the garden is calling me!

The photos above are some early spring beauty from our own garden. It is so exciting to be able to pick a bouquet from the garden once again. The striped scilla and pink hellebore's are blooming as well as hyacinths and the daffodils are all coming into bloom.

There were so many beautiful flowering shrubs and trees as well as some perennials blooming in the south. I love the statue of the woman in the center photo but there were so many lovely statues- another collage!

I am having fun making some collages with the photos I took in Charleston.

I thought this would be a good way to share some of the beautiful garden gates in Charleston. If you like you can click on the photos to enlarge them for a better view. I am envious of all the old brick walls and beautiful hand crafted iron gates and fences. I had to stop and peek through the garden gates of nearly every home. Yep! I am a lot of fun to walk with but soaking in the beauty was more fun then exercise.

Thank you again for visiting me and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Carolyn

p.s. I should also mention that the quality of the pics are not as good because I had to squeeze as many as I could on my memory card. You know me more is more!

Also you can enlarge by holding the ctrl botton and scrolling the mouse button away from you which is faster.

Beautiful Charleston!

Hello ! I am back from our trip to Charleston and we had a great time there. The city is so beautiful with amazing gardens tucked in around all the beautiful homes in the historic district.

We walked around the town each day and I was totally wowed! There is so much to see and enjoy there.

There are over one hundred beautiful churches in Charleston!

The architecture is amazing!

Aren't they beautiful?

We enjoyed a horse and carriage ride and got the history of the buildings as we passed.

There were such beautiful flowering shrubs etc. everywhere.

Love all the wisteria blooming everywhere.

Beautiful porches on most all the homes.

I went on the annual house and garden tour on Saturday and got to see in five beautiful historic homes and seven gardens. The above garden was enclosed with high brick walls and I felt like I had just stepped into The Secret Garden(movie). Everyday was sunny and perfect temperature-I look forward to going back again sometime. I took over 1000 pictures so I will have to share a few more of my favorites with you in a couple of days. I am also looking forward to catching up with you all as soon as I can.

We were at the airport at 3 a.m. this morning so I am off for a nice hot bath and then my own little bed!

Have a good night,

Carolyn