Flowery stuff

Good morning! Hows things?? Hunkydory I hope?
All well here :: this week I am fighting off my monthly hormone-induced rant about the state of my house (remember this time last month?) See, I was right, I told you all my housework was probably due to PMT. It's amazing how blogging allows one to see the cycles of ones life unfold, how it seems that during the  third week of each month I get all antsy about the house and start picking flowers to make me feel better. I am so completely predictable, and I hope you don't mind looking at pretty flowers with me again today.

When I came home from school this morning, the sun was shining and I was really glad to see the flowers blooming in my little patch of front garden. The cosmos plants that grew and grew and grew all summer long but refused to flower are now really getting going, and they are wonderful.

Same for the nasturtiums, they too were so late to flower, but they are making up for it now and were positively glowing in the Autumn light this morning.

Jewel bright against the green of their leaves.

And I love the way the little droplets of rain are collected like jewels too.

A pink geranium, a little chomped around the edges, but still beautiful.

And a self seeded poppy, also chomped around the edges, with it's little Chomper still in residence.

And here I am look, having just jumped down off the wall, camera in hand, slipping on the wet flagstones and narrowly avoiding a serious injury.
Thought it was hilarious that in mid fall, I must've had my finger on the button and unknowingly took an action shot of my own slippy skid.
Good job you can't hear the words that tumbled out of my mouth, they were not pretty.



After yesterdays post, I did end up clearing the coffee table, and so first thing this morning it was completely, totally Free of Stuff. Yes, it really was empty!
And now this is where my little posy of garden flowers are sitting. I love this taken-from-above photo, this still life shot captures our morning perfectly ::  my habitual morning coffee and biscuit, a toy truck left over from some game taking place on the table early this morning, and the sweetest little beaded bracelet made for me this very morning by Little Man.
See his eye for colour, isn't that quite something, the way he has arranged the beads?
I was watching him string them  before breakfast and I just LOVED the way he chose to put those two turquoise blue beads there to finish off. Beautiful.



I so love seeing fresh flowers in a room.



I know that as soon as I've finished writing this I'm going to go running down two flights of stairs and straight into my living room so I can feast my eyes on these flowers again.
Will try not to slip or trip on my way down cos I really do have to run.
Two steps at a time running, yeah, I'm off now......
Need to see the flowers now, right now.........

Comments

[Jude]

Love the flowers but also the cushion in the background! First spotted it in your previous post and wondered whether it was OK to ask about it. It has reappeared and reminds me a bit of the paper weaving we did as children, so I am going to ask is it fabric or tapestry?
Your postings are a favourite stop for me before doing any computer related work! Please don't stop.

[Andrea]

Fantastic colours for this time of year, I am very jealous...glad you survived the fall! x

[kitschen pink]

Amazingly beautiful photoes as ever!! How very clever of you not to use the camera as a landing pad - a finely honed natural instinct to keep it high and safe - you could be a danger-sport photographer with instincts like that! t.xx

[claire]

Ah the joys of PMT..... My wee man made me a bookmark this morning after he woke up at 6am! I thought he was quiet and was expecting beheaded action men or room devestation, but no I got presented with a lovley bookmark he made from paper!! Ahhhhh. Long may it last though I'm sure the days are numbered how quick do they grow???

[Lisa]

I love your bracelet, what a sweet Little Man to have made that for you.
Pleased to hear you are still in one piece after your slip up.
xx

[cathleen]

Coming here first thing in the morning is always a way to brighten my day. You are such a wonder, Lucy, because you manage to take little windows of your life and to capture the beauty of every small little detail and make it a treat to peek in from the other side. The flowers, your little slip on the flagstones, your living room photos from yesterday....all of it beautifully ordinary, and so beautifully you. You are such a charming and delightful personality....I wish you lived next door!

[Pink feather paradise]

I think I am embarking on a PMT week of snapping at the smallest things, mind you if they just left me alone to crochet and draw I would be more than happy!

What lovely flowers and a young jeweller in the making... I am still not a true blogger as I went out with Danny man to feed the ducks and go to the market and forgot my camera completely! doh!
Alex x

[Mrs Be]

Beautiful flowers (and bracelet!). Glad to hear you didn't hurt yourself but did chuckle that you managed to capture it1

[Lesley]

only a true blogger would manage to take a picture of an almost accident i think:-D lovely colours how nice to see such vibrancy at this time of the year - the bracelet was very impressive !
Lesley x

[Fiona]

Gorgeous flowers! Our garden has just about had it as far as flowers go but I did manage to find a few roses and lots of rose hips to pick on sunday to add to some crysanthamums I salvaged from a previous jug of flowers. They're not quite as bright and cheerful as your lovely posy. Thinking of tripping, I managed to trip up the stairs on Friday night in front of my future in-laws and the really bad thing is the trip was alcohol induced! I had just lost my job though so I think it was a valid reason to have a few too many glasses of wine. And the in-laws thought it was very funny luckily!