I need more coffee.
The first coffee was a brief and chilly wander round the garden. The second a slightly longer one. It is only a very small garden after all.
I have been up since the cold and the dreams woke me before six, with startling clarity and aching in bits that should not ache. The stretching isn’t cutting it today but I flatly refuse to have painkillers for breakfast. Anyway, it is sunny this morning. That should be enough.
Everything is drenched in dew. Odd small miracles of life and colour are springing up in sheltered corners and a few brave plants have shaken the last mothballs of winter from their leaves and come into full bloom.
The hailstorm yesterday may have battered them, yet the arching grace of the bleeding heart, the impossible brilliance of the aubretia and the homely elegance of the dead nettles are beautiful and the buds on my baby apple tree are full of promise and hope
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
I am up early too here in Seattle. Beautiful photos as always and always a blessing for me.
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Other end of the day and other end of the country now… still with the coffee… though a long tall something with ice sounds rather nice… x
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Glorious colour, I hope Summer turns out the same for you 🙂
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So do I 🙂
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Awww so peaceful and pretty. Go get more coffee 🙂 im on my third one already!
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🙂 Evening and I’m still chasing coffee. 🙂
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Thank you for the “like” !
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🙂
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Happy Mother’s Day from across the pond! Wow, those colors are dazzlingly beautiful–may you enjoy basking in their brilliance. xo
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Glorious, aren’t they? 🙂
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Happy Mother’s Day to you!
and I am headed back in for my second cup of coffee and to finis some planters I am taking over to a friends…
your garden is most beautiful but then when you have your spirit embedded then how good it not be….
Take Care…Have a Wonderful rest of your day…
)0(
Blessed Be
ladyblue
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My garden is covering itself in green and colour.. and I am just sitting back and watching the miracles happen in every corner.
In Loving Light,
Sue
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Looks beautiful my friend, sending you so much love on this day reserved for mothers as you are cherished in the heart of many.
Always
Benjamin
Ps: I didn’t not succeed in taking pain pills for breakfast 😦
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Thank you dear.. the garden is so very much greener and full of life than when you were here.
Much love,
PS… It is a toss up between a stiff whisky or painkillers for supper too… No contest really… 😉
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Both 🙂
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Happy mother’s day to you amazing mum! You are a gift to this world:)
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Oh bless you Ionia xxx
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Sue, your lovely garden pictures were a treat to see… especially the bleeding hearts and the little critter!
Blessings ~ Wendy
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I love the small creeping and flying things.. they bring the garden to such life xx
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Oh gosh such beautiful vibrant colours in your garden Sue…and the bleeding heart…oh my!!!
*faints*
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You should see them, Leisa.. a whole corner of plants arching like dancers over the garden. 🙂
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Oh I love bleeding hearts they are so delicate
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So do I 🙂
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What beautiful flowers. Thank you for sharing pics of your garden.
Happy Mother’s Day, Sue.
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Beautiful photos of the “Bleeding Hearts”.
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Gorgeous, aren’t they?
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Yes they are. How well do they attract Hummingbirds?
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We don’t have hummingbirds over here, sadly, Jerry. Just hummingbird moths that pretend to be hummingbirds.. which is a rather odd evolutionary quirk 🙂
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Where is over here? 🙂
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England 🙂
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Should have know when you replied over here. I though pretty much every country/continebt had H birds. 😉
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Not this one, sadly. I wish we had.. beautiful little flying jewels.. and I’ve never seen one wild.
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That’s a shame. I hope to get a shot of a Ruby Throat soon. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/ruby-throated_hummingbird/id
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Oh how beautiful!
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I have some here but not sure if a 55mm lens will bring it in close enough. I sure hope so. Later I’ll get a 250-300mm zoom.
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One of these days I may get a good camera 🙂 For now, I just get lucky.
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What do you have now Sue?
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A point and shoot Panasonic and an even more basic Samsung in the handbag.. nothing fancy 🙂
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Remember the silver camera on my blog. I picked that up in a pawn shop, a $300. camera for half price. It did a wonderful job til it lost it’s ability to focus all the time.:)
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I keep my eyes peeled 🙂
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A lovely reflection on the human condition…….refreshment from burgeoning nature and a few coffees…….but I do hope that the aches and pains are soon dispatched.
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Thank you, on all counts. And so do I 🙂
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Reblogged this on Wyndy Dee and commented:
Beautiful as usual! Love that first picture!!
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your photos are always so stunningly beautiful.
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Thank you. The world is such a beautiful place …I just look at what is there.
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