Because I'm Happppppy!

Once those lyrics get in my head….glee is inevitable…it's time for skipping…wiggling…clapping, bouncing with the pup, smiles... smiles… and layering of vibrant garden hues that make me…..

HAPPY!!!!

Betting you are too!

May's Garden

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Alfred Austin

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Alfred Austin

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Alice Walker

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Eliot

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Oscar de la Renta

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Luther Burbank

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.

Emilia Fox

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Luis Barragan

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

With a Dollop of Paint....

dol·lop  (dlp)

n.

1. A large lump or portion of a solid matter: a dollop of ice cream.

2. A small quantity or splash of a liquid: a dollop of whiskey.

3. A modicum; a bit: not a dollop of truth to the story.

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acrylics, palette knife

acrylics, palette knife

acrylics, palette knife

acrylics, molding paste

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acrylics, collage, molding paste

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acrylics, oil pastels, pen

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acrylics, collage, pen

It's Letter "D" Day at Jenny's Alphabet Thursday:)

Got a "D" word you want to share?

It's Paint Party Friday time!

Come share your art!

To Do List

Attend a Happy Hour:

Why not have it in my own backyard?

Margaritas :  One Size Fits All

You're invited!

EnJoy the florals!

Meet me back in the kitchen for appetizers?

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Joining Paint Party Friday!

A Different Kind of Palette

All gardening is landscape painting.
William Kent

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
Martha Smith

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
Phyllis Theroux

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Jean Anouilh

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Dogen Zenji

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar de la Renta

To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger

Hope You enJoyed My Garden Tour!

More Later:)