Hoya

This is one of my hoya plants, one that has not bloomed for me at this point. I took the picture with the sunlight streaming through the leaves, I like it, mostly because I love the sun.

Sunday Blooming Sunday

I do not have much in bloom right now but will share what I do have. Plus a stray african violet or two. The sun shone today, which made it a good day. We enjoyed a small road trip to the soy candle factory so I could buy wax to make my candles and a couple of new fragrance oils, well, one is a repeat, Orange Spice which is a popular scent with those that I have give a candle to, the new scent that I have not tried before is Orange Blossom. I also bought some soy tea lights at their retail outlet I don't make tea lights, too little and I would spill to much :) . Then we went to my parents to take them our for Chinese.

More Butterflies

More and more butterflies! TGIF, now I have two whole days to myself, always a treat.

More Butterflies

More butterflies..............I have lots, like I said it was a great day.

Our tems were in the 30s today, was a change. It is not supposed to last but no blizzards in the forecast anyway.

More Butterflies

More butterflies from out day at Reiman Gardens.

Beautiful sun shiney day here today..................... the sun always makes me feel better.

Reiman Butterflies

Reiman Gardens in Ames Iowa is one of my favorite places to visit. We try to get there at least 4 times a year or more if possible. I love the butterfly house. I turned the big 6-0 on Dec 19, I took the day off of work because I wanted to go to Reimans, naturally we had one of the many blizzards we have had this winter with 8-10 inches of snow. So it was not meant to be. The butterfly house closes down from Jan 1st to April 1st so I did not have many chances to get there. I did something I rarely do, the following Monday I called in sick and we went to Ames, it was 20 below zero but in the butterfly house it was 80 something. The conservatory was all decked out for Christmas of course. We had a wonderful visit and I am glad I played hooky :).

Shades of Last Summer

Today the temps were almost 65 degrees higher than yesterday but were still cold......brrrrr....

The temp was about 30 today, with yesterdays minus 34, that is almost 65 degrees.......hard to believe.

The above photo was taken last August, I think it is Pinky Winky (Hydrangea).