In My Garden This Week

I've haven't posted much lately as I have been elbow deep in compost, peat moss, mulch, and dirt. :-) Yes, after so much rain, we are finally enjoying glorious days of sunshine. Temps are cool, so it is the perfect weather for gardening
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I love this side view of the poppy and the soft striped background. It's one of the few poppies still intact.

WARNING: I brake for wooden chairs left curbside. If the seat is rotten or broken, it's even better. I'll find a spot for it in my yard. :-)
    [Note: I was just rereading this post from yesterday and noticed that I had written "break" instead of "brake." I guess I better brake  for pesky homonyms from now on . . . ]  
 

 

As you know from reading my blog, I loved being a middle school teacher. Let me tell you a fun story. On Saturday, I headed to a local garden center to buy a flat of white petunias as I always put a touch of white in each hanging basket that I make.)  No luck . . . but as I was browsing, I heard, "Miss Smith!!!" A woman introduced herself as being one of my students from when I first started teaching in the 70s. Wow! I did remember her and we had a short pleasant conversation. As I was walking back to my car, she proclaimed loudly to everyone, "There goes one of our town's best teachers ever!" What a day brightener!

The story continues . . . Sunday after church I went to a different garden center in search of the same white petunias, and I was successful. After making my purchase, a woman stopped me. She, too, announced that she had been one of my students the year that Central Junior High closed . . . 1981! She handed her phone to her husband and had him take a number of photos of the two of us. She claimed that I hadn't changed a bit and that she had loved being in my English class. (Now, I am probably thirty pounds heavier and my bright red hair has faded to a more strawberry blond, but nevertheless, she recognized me thirty-eight years later. :-)

Yesterday after food shopping at Roche Brothers, I decided to check out Southern Artery Gardens to see if anything there might catch my eye. (I'm truly, absolutely, totally incorrigible when it comes to flower shopping; I simply can't stop myself from visiting every garden shop in the area. I justify it by saying that I am an equal opportunity shopper merely doing my part to help the economy.) So, I looked around eagerly and waited patiently for someone to approach and say that he or she had been one my students. It didn't happen, but I did make the acquaintance of this pretty soft pink Knock Out rose which is now happily planted in my garden.

Here's a photo of my hexi quilt taken on my sunporch. The photo in my previous post made it appear darker than it actually is.

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Have a fun, colorful day.