you are wondering

what about the garden

this winter we had 2 nights of light frost and the next week one more night
but that is all it takes for some plants

the passion flowers so died off this winter
that I could hardly look at them
one day they were green and covering the fence
then almost overnight they completely turned brown

they are starting to come back now

and a friend told me that since they have established roots

they will really take off this year

woo hoo - I can't wait - they are my favorite
plus they made a few baby plants for me to transplant to other places

there is more to the garden though than passion vines

for example this lovely deep blue orchid, lily?

I thought I was buying gladiolus!

it has leaves like the glad....

hard to see here. but the flower comes off a "branch" that comes out perpendicular to the leaves

 is so strange and beautiful to me

who knew a geranium was so hardy

this one is on it's second year

the frost didn't faze it, it bloomed all winter and just keeps getting bigger

the butterflies love it

the jasmine is blooming like crazy and the smell fills the yard

it has little star like flowers

also hanging in our garden is something interesting we found while kayaking

some kind of cocoon

again not a great photo but it has little pieces of sticks all over it

 we were hanging out on a beach and we noticed that the bushes were full of these

we brought this one home

I wonder when it will hatch and if we will see what it is, I'll let you know

and this, this is the most amazing thing of all -

this was an old hot tub that did not work anymore

was never going to

it was a big deep hole with water in the bottom and it seemed so dangerous

with little kids

so we filled it in with sand last year

I thought about how I want to get something planted there and was looking into it

when I realized that the impatiens had self seeded

I didn't have to do anything

we saw one pink flower and then realized they were all impatiens

they are just getting bigger and better

just what I wanted but did not know how to do

thank you mother nature!

in addition to flowers our garden has fairies

cute fairies

that live

and sleep in the bamboo

the world is a magical place

and I am honored to be here