Hi! I had a hectic week and a busy day today so instead of a Bitty update, I think tonight we'll take a sweet, peaceful, thoughtful walk through the morning glory gardens.
In a time of fear and unrest, plus such tragic natural events---fires, hurricanes=--I try to focus on the serenity and quietude of my little corner of the world. And pray that it lasts.
So come walk with me?
The cooler days and rain have sent the glories into mad profusions! Don't you love their old-fashioned simplicity?
Two sizes. I love the tiny bluer ones!
Looks like sunflowers and crepe myrtle...
but look closely, the morning glories have twined all the way to the top of the maybe 12 foot high sunflowers!
The glories shut their eyes before noon most days. And only bloom that one morning, and then are gone....
Sunny marigold hedge, seen through fence slats...
Tiny flower hedges.
Something for the Weekend: This week's book is Louise Penny's next Inspector Gamache installment, Glass Houses. I love Penny's books and usually recommend highly but this one, hmmm: lots of tedious philosophizing, a very unlikely premise, and a the general feeling that everyone knows what's going on except me, the reader. I'm at 75% now and the murderer/ defendant [but not really!!!] has just been revealed. C'mon? And Penny's odd puns/ allusions/ word plays in English, when everyone is supposedly speaking French are jarring. here
[PS This book got almost entirely 5* reviews, so maybe it was just me? Read it and let me know what you think!]
I'm rather looking forward instead to to the new Vince Flynn/ Mitch Rapp, Enemy of the State, now written by Kyle Mills. Mitch is a thug but we love him. Pretty sure he won't hand-wring and moan about whatever issue he has to face,lol. here
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Look! Someone is fence-peeking back at me!
love
lizzy
gone to the ebach....
Mel! Baloon tires on beach carts. With a side order of ugly Birkenstock's....
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LOL! I have those same Birkenstocks - mine are worn out though and my new ones are slightly cuter.
ReplyDeleteI always loved morning glories but as I'm a night owl I don't often get to enjoy the blooms. If I lived by that walkway I'd have scarlet runner beans and cardinal vine along with the morning glories. Maybe a black-eyed Susan vine, too. Mix things up a little! I love that 'tunnel' walkway, though, it really does look like a secret passageway to a secret garden or something. Thanks for sharing your walk!
Lovely wandering along the morning glory pathways. A real treat. Thank you. Thoughts and prayers with you on your side of the Globe. Pennyxx
ReplyDeleteI needed that walk through the morning glories too! Thanks for taking me there.
ReplyDeleteMy early morning hike yesterday helped calm my mind and center my thinking. I hope all will be well in your corner of the world.
Thanks for the morning glory walk!!!
ReplyDeleteThe colors are beautiful,mother nature works in such a pretty way :)
That Morning Glory walk is so pretty! It made me smile on yet another very smokey day. Thanks my friend! Have a great weekend. :) Kit
ReplyDeleteGosh, I don't think you could take a bad photo of the walkway. It is always a welcome sight.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I will skip the book based on your comments, and on an Amazon review that said the story really started to lag about 2/3 of the way in. Life's too short. I will try to remember the other that you mentioned though.
So, the duck/goose is fake, I think?
Kel
Hahaha, I thought it was a badly carved seagull, but yes, a wooden duck, I guess. Just appeared recently!
DeleteW the Louise Penny book, I think people who follow the series will read it but I don t recc for anyone new to
the series. In her author notes Penny says she wrote the book just after her husband, who had suffered from dementia, passed away, and that she wrote as she dealt with the loss. Not an excuse but an explanation, I ll try the next book. I skipped the new Mitch Rapp and am reading the new J D Robb/ Eve Dallas, always a good read.
Lol! Well, some kind of feathered creature in any case :)
DeleteEnjoy the book!
I needed a bit of calm, your walk was a balm for frazzled nerves.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading a David Baldachi (sp?) right now, just got it from a micro-library at the doctor's office.It's the third in the series but I haven't read the first two ... I live my life out of order, so there's nothing new there.
~Lisa