FLOWER FRIDAY IN OUR GARDEN

I decided to have a wander around the garden this morning and was amazed to see all these beautiful flowers still blooming.  The rain we have had recently has certainly helped so we are being blessed with these later summer “bloomers”!   We were both very surprised to see a single bloom on our Guernsey Cream clematis, which bloomed so well earlier in the year - this one is the second down on the left of my collage.

I have had a busy morning so far, having been to see Karen, my Community Fridge friend just after 9 o’clock, then coffee with Gill, another friend and her husband, John at 10 o’clock.  It’s now lunchtime and I have just had a chat with my Blip friend, Heidi and after lunch, I am being collected by yet another friend, Caroline, to be taken out for coffee - and there may even be cake!  

Mr. HCB has just cut the grass and it is looking good, but he says it needs scarifying again, before we scatter some more wild flower seed to see if they will germinate over the winter.  We were talking about the Parable of the Sower in our Home Group last night, so maybe we should scatter it as the Sower would have done rather doing it too carefully, as we did earlier in the year.  Time will tell what will happen, but in the meantime, we can still enjoy our  beautiful garden flowers.  I don’t think we will be sitting out in the garden that much in the next few days, as it is markedly cooler and there is quite a breeze today and the mornings are definitely cooler.  However, the sun is shining now, which means that our conservatory is still warm.

Hope you all have a great weekend - no doubt some of us will be watching the television to see the crowds visiting London to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth before her funeral on Monday, and perhaps some may even be visiting.

 “Death ends a life,
     not a relationship.”
Mitch Albom

P.S.  I wonder if you can spot the “odd one out” in amongst all the flowers in my collage?