So, I know that it was single flowers each day for about 5 days & I shared the first couple. Well, this morning (just before the sun would start breaking the horizon) I saw this:
The other hibiscus bush beside it is colored differently & is the one that was clipped so it only has one bud on it that is getting ready to bloom! Eeekkk… I’m excited to see it
My 2nd plant is opening! We had off & on light rain yesterday. Some thunder rolls in the AM the a couple lightning strikes within 10 miles…
However, the rest of my state & literally one town over, they had closed bridges & rotaries because of downpours & floods! I was shocked! Where we are, if you moved your car it was dry underneath & nothing resembling a puddle.
Also the top of my Rose of Sharon looks good this morning too!
Oh, that makes me smile if any more pop up through November I will take pictures. We have kind of a garden neighborhood… we actually give new neighbors gnomes. Well, it takes them a little bit to figure out that it’s my daughter & a neighbor & I picking them out & leaving them on their porches for them to find, but it’s a fun thing to do in the neighborhood. We also go through an I have to split this plant, here you go neighbor! So now I actually have 8 daisy bushes around my yard too Along with hostas green & green & white… it’s a thing between 4 of our yards.
I’m hoping that there’s more tomorrow, but I am very happy with the number of flowers I have been able to collect this year!
I don’t know what these are but they popped up next to some rocks we have on our property by the road. They aren’t brown or black eyed Susans, they are smaller than those.
Oh! & these are Happiness Rocks. My daughter (along with me & our neighbor) would paint the flatter rocks with different things & words so as people walked by they would see them & either pick them up or leave them for others. These are the only 3 left. She used to do them every summer before she turned 12 We have shells that are the same way around the neighborhood too.
I’m so happy that you love the pictures. When I go outside the first time in the morning, well it’s either still dark… but then it’s that time between sunrise & the moon setting where the sun is just starting to maybe break the horizon. That’s when I look for my first smiles of the day with what is going on outside.
I hope your day remains a good one with smiles a plenty!
I forget where we got the original idea, I know it started with clam shells after we would go clamming & have a boil. We’d wash out the shells for clams & quahogs & then paint them. I think we ran out & started using flat rocks because my driveway & at the time my neighbor had stone driveways that were like river rocks sort of… I honestly forget what the rocks are called for the driveway
So lovely @Susurrus
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you! I have been feeling a little down for the last several days, and I love seeing your happy smiling flowers.
Love and
So, I was actually AWAKE at 1 AM EST, so I was awake through one of my favorite times of day… however, while I found 7 blooms that need about a day before any open, I didn’t have any new blooms yet. So I walked across the street to one of the right of ways that goes to the channel between us & the smaller island off of our shore. (We can walk over at low tide in some places) Anyway, this is what I saw for about 10 minutes before I walked back home:
Thank you @marsha! I have a present for you this morning!
Last night around 8 PM we had a rolling thunderstorm (thundah boomah ), it lasted about 2 hours, which we love to watch the lightning in the sky & listen to the thunder roll out to the ocean. I only had 1 bloom but others were getting ready to open. So this morning I went from 1 yesterday to this:
I have never seen those! I love them! So pretty! Thank you for sharing @Ostara.
I have some more buds on my Hibiscus , but ibwander the yard to see if anything has started or come around since the bits of rain we got comapred to the rest of the state.
I absolutely love love love it! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
When I saw your pictures, I felt such a calm and peaceful feeling come over me. I think I will print them out so I can look at them throughout my day!
May you always be blessed dear @Susurrus