Flowers In The House ( Of Chaos)

Welcome.  Sorry you had to traipse through such tall grass to get inside.  Hope you stopped to pull a weed or two.  It doesn't stop raining/drizzling/thundering here.  Correction: it stopped today.

We have not only had a week of rain but a week of painting/plastering in the living/dining room/kitchen, replastering the ceiling and walls from the last week of rain.  Oh that was a tropical storm.

This has meant our little bedroom has held not only us, the Lab and the crazy cat (who now insists on sleeping on the bed with us), but 4 dining room chairs, a wingback chair, piles of books, plants, mirrors and artwork.

I now refer to myself as: 'Jane - formerly known as OCD'.

But this afternoon the sun peeked through and I sloshed around the garden gathering an armful of autumn bounty.

 

I filled an old crock with limelight hydrangeas, verbena bonariensis, black jack sedum, flowering Thai basil, pink sage, zinnas, and lengths of passion flower vine.

The kitchen got the expected mason jar full of unexpected loveliness.  Autumn blooming anemones, black and blue salvia, sedun autumn joy, chokecherry berries, the last of the shasta daisies and a touch of  chocolate eupatorium.

And on a shelf in the dining room, where we display my favorite green majolica plates and some Furstenberg German china from GG's family, one little cup with a white zinnia from my neighbor Nelda's garden.

 Sometime less is definitely more, no?

So that's my story.  And yours?  Invite us over and do tell.

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