THE FRENCH HUTCH: Sunrise

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

GOOD DAY SUNSHINE

Sunrise and another sunshiny August day

August blooms

Usually in August my flowers are few, having bloomed out due to our extremely hot and dry climate. This year we’ve had a bit of a break, not so hot and humid with a few cooler days arriving from fronts moving further south. With so many bright blue sunshiny days, my lilies have pleasantly surprised me, continuing to give me many lovely yellow blooms to enjoy. Other than the lilies, my containers continue to thrive and give a lot of color with coleus and trailing petunias. Let’s take a walk through the yard and I will show you what is blooming in the beds now.

The Yellow Daylily

The foliage is beginning to turn brown and the blooms are smaller now.

Yellow is my favorite color and what I always buy. Imagine my surprise when this red beauty bloomed!

Verbena and butterflies

The hibiscus loves the hot climate

Hibiscus and trailing petunias

Petunias

Coleus

Vinca

Nasturtium

Golden Lantana after a Crepe Myrtle petal shower

Multicolored lantana

Mexican Heather

White Crept Myrtles

I hope you enjoyed your walk with me today and I certainly enjoyed your visit! Please tell me, what is blooming in your gardens in August? Hope you will leave a comment so I will know you stopped by.

Linking

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Friday, May 16, 2014

SPRING FLING

Sun, Sand and Sea

My spring fling was recently spent at the gulf coast and it was a beautiful week. The small towns of Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, AL are quiet after the spring break crowd leaves and before the season begins. A week for walking on the beach and sitting beachside with a book is just about my favorite pastime. A favorite place since I was a little girl, when I traveled here on vacations with my family.

Let me share a little of my vacation with you through my
photographs!

High Rise or Beach Cottage

Home away from home for the week,
a lovely beachfront condo.

Part of The Lazy River from high above.

Coastal Views

White Sandy Beaches

Calm Waters for my visit makes me happy

Sunrise Breakfast for two

Pretty Shell Design Pottery

Great Seafood Restaurants
with views

Sunrise

Sunset

Day’s End
Pretty Pink Umbrellas

Around Town

Artists Gallery
Meet lovely artist Linda

Local art and original work

Where I found a beautiful gift for my sister, please don’t tell!

During the week The Southern Bloggers Jubliee meeting was being held in Fairhope so I made the forty-five minute drive over. It was a very informative meeting and I enjoyed meeting other bloggers from the area. We enjoyed a wonderful seafood lunch at a local restaurant after the meeting. If any of you are interested in attending the meetings please click on the link on my sidebar. I hope to make more of these meetings in the future. Of course I always enjoy visiting my friends in Fairhope and you can visit this quaint southern town too, my past posts here and here. Fairhope is a lovely town on Mobile Bay and this town is know for it’s flowers. Such colorful gardens and the air is filled with a floral fragrance. This week the petunias were delightful!