Heh Everyone! Today is literally the first day of baking season. How do I know? The temperature has dipped down past seventy degrees here in North Texas and the baking barometer in my brain has done a complete mental adjustment and I am now ready to fire up the oven and get my bakers hat on. I’m sure this weather …
My Olive Oil samples from Tunisian Olive Farms in Northern Africa and Balsamic Vinegar samples from Modena Italy. Both infused with natural flavors. I have 26 additional samples still in the box lol. Just had to take a sneak peek. So excited to start the taste testing and incorporate these into my Bleu’ Alchemy Cottage label and start teaching others …
MAGNOLIA – Nobility, Perseverance The window is open and a warm, delicious little breeze comes wandering in. It smells of magnolias and dogwood and it whispers in our ears enticing little stories of gurgling brooks and cool woods. Yes, we have got spring fever and got it bad. ~Country Life, June 1922 #fleur #fleurs #flowers #magnolia #southernliving #southerner #parks #parkcities …
He walked in the door from the back yard and says “I love you Muffin”, hands me this little bouquet of wildflowers….#blessed Thoughtfulness and kindness are everything Y’all Her fairies climb the bare, brown trees,And set green caps on every stalk;Her primroses peep bashfullyFrom borders of the garden walk,And in the reddened maple topsHer blackbird gossips sit and talk.~Hannah R. …
My ranuncula bloomed this morning. As my husband said, its so beautiful it almost looks fake lol 70+ degrees here today Y’all, what a wonderful change! February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. ~J.R. Stockton Color PsychologyRed is the color of energy, passion and actionThe color red is a warm and positive color …
PANSY – #tussiemussie Merriment, Thoughts (You Occupy My Thoughts) Seat of my youth! thy distant spireRecalls each scene of joy;My bosom glows with former fire,In mind again a boy.Each flower a double fragrance flings;Again, as once, in converse gay,Each associate seems to say,“Friendship is Love without his wings!” George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) #fleur #flower #gardens #green #gardener #gardeners #jardin …
So many people who believe that their only loveable if they fit into someone else’s mold. Not true. So many people have lacked love and acceptance by others who were supposed to love and accept them. Do you know you are beautiful? Do you know your beautiful? You are…. “Beautiful” If you can dependOn certaintyCount it out and weigh it …
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread. ~John Burroughs, …
A simple cleansing from the outside world this morning, where fake is real and real is fake. Where millions are made on junk and quality is a word of the past.NAEBM Hanukkah day #6 …I believe in miracles. One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb The color white is color at its most complete and pure, the …
