Rain or Shine. Or Both.

Don't you love just love the different types of weather?

Yesterday morning I pottered around in the garden, pruning our random tomato plant
and uprooting the zucchini two plants that refused to grow before sitting on 

the porch swing chatting with my best friend who lives overseas.

This morning, after a night of pouring rain,
it had slowed to a steady drizzle so I stood on the back patio
admiring the rain drops that lined the foliage of the jasmine vines. 

I kept watching them drop and decided I needed to grab my camera and take some photos!

The light was amazing! 

Who would have thought?  A rainy day?  Good lighting for photos?! 

I guess that's how we learn, eh?  By doing.

As I was peering through the lens, my eye found a little hidden wonder ...

A gorgeous dragon fly seeking shelter from the wet drops.

And the beautiful white flowers that had opened opened earlier in the week
were tightly shut, protecting their delicate centers from the rain.




Such little beauties.



This little one didn't shut quick enough and was pulled over by the weight of the rain.
I still thought it was beautiful though ...

I do love the rain. 
And the shine.

Do you?

Corner View {One Color}

The theme for this week's Corner View - hosted at FuoriBorgo - is one color. My favorite color is green. A deep emerald green. Mmmmmm, I love that. But my one color today is YELLOW. When we are talking flowers ... yellow are my favorite! And this yellow beauty is currently stretching towards the sky in my backyard.

Pink

I

i love snapdragons

Purple

Pomegranate Flower

 

This is a pomegranate flower, just before it blooms .... 

Red

White

Jade

 

It's springtime in my neck of the woods.  My favorite time of year!

The flowers are magnificent.  This afternoon I shot a few that are blooming in our garden.  I plan to show you a few over the next week or two!  They are just lovely.  This photo isn't so much about the flower, as it is about the jade in front of it but I love how you can see the beautiful hippeastrum behind it.

Corner View {flowers}

I was going to take some photos today of these flowers in our front garden.


But it is raining.


  So I'll share these ones I took the other day.


I just love when they are in bloom!

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Corner View was created by Jane at Spain Daily and is now hosted by Francesca.  It is bloggers from all over the world, posting photos of a specific weekly theme.  To join, just post to your own blog and then link up over at Francesca's Corner View for the week.  Then, visit the other Corner Views ... that's my favorite part !  Seeing the interpretations of the themes, visiting different cultures, learning something new !

Full Bloom

Our Jasmine is in full bloom and it is MAGNIFICENT !

Hippeastrum

JUST

STARTING

 

TO OPEN 

Hanging Lantern

 

Corner {Leaf} View & 10 on 10

I've been wanting to join 10 on 10 for some time now but kept forgetting on the 10th !  My friend Khrista does it and I just love it.  What you do ... take one hour photo an hour for ten hours ... and then post it on the 10th day of the month.  I didn't read the instructions until this morning, and I just took 10 photos.  Next time I'll do it properly. :)

A new pomegranate on our tree !

Our third hippiastrum has bloomed and it's a different (but just as beautiful!) color !

 

Pink Lavendar !

 

The view from where I sit.

New candle holder from the cheap shop ... and one of my paintings.

 

A segment of another of my paintings.

And a segment from a third.

Laundry Day

Hangers

"Mailboxes" on our bedroom door.  With mail in them ....

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AND HERE IS MY CORNER VIEW ... LEAF

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Corner View was created by Jane at Spain Daily and is now hosted by Francesca.  It is bloggers from all over the world, posting photos of a specific weekly theme.  To join, just post to your own blog and then link up over at Francesca's Corner View for the week.  Then, visit the other Corner Views ... that's my favorite part !  Seeing the interpretations of the themes, visiting different cultures, learning something new !

Gerbera

 

Seriously, I can't get enough of Spring ! 

I love it !

Grevillea

All my life, I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and in mind. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Coming {in for a} Landing

"When the dog bites. When the bee stings.  

When I'm feeling sad.  

I'm simply remember 

my favorite things 

and then I don't feel so bad"

~Oscar Hammerstein~

Simple Charm

 

"The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob 

the little violet of it's scent nor the daisy of it's simple charm. 

 If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring 

would lose it's loveliness." 

~ Therese of Lisieux ~

Favorites

 

I've learned recently that these are some of my husband's favorite flowers ...

{time for myself} Corner View

These days, time I find for myself is sometimes in the garden ... planting, watering, weeding, harvesting and enjoying. Sometimes behind the camera ... as much as possible behind the camera ! Sometimes with my nose in a book.  Sometimes it is spent here ... on my blog ... with you.

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Corner View was created by Jane at Spain Daily and is now hosted by Francesca.  It is bloggers from all over the world, posting photos of a specific weekly theme.  To join, just post to your own blog and then link up over at Francesca's Corner View for the week.  Then, visit the other Corner Views ... that's my favorite part !  Seeing the interpretations of the themes, visiting different cultures, learning something new !