Our January blooms are sprawling wildly, bursting with color, ignoring the season, crowding each other and competing for Most Beautiful.

Reinforcing my benign neglect this year, the greenery of Glover Gardens has gifted us with unexpected late-November blooms.

Butterflies, butterfly weed, and a caterpillar relocation project. It’s never a dull moment at Glover Gardens.

…about mindfulness, and flowers, and tasting life…

If Easter lilies are white, perhaps these gorgeous red lilies are Good Friday lilies.

Dazzling colors and green spaces that can be found all over Paris are the subject of this January Dreaming post.

Scottish bees and purple flowers, and a haiku.

Aberdeen’s Cruickshank Botanic Garden on the King’s College campus in Old Aberdeen is gorgeous and haiku-inspiring.

A change of scenery brings mountain wildflowers, a fire in the fireplace and a haiku about the mesmerizing nature of flames.

A digital postcard from Glover Gardens with scarlet Lord Baltimore blooms.

Haiku saluting the Purple Fringe alongside the abandoned track at the top of Boreas Pass at the continental divide.

On Elkhorn Road headed North toward Como, CO, the tired old asphalt is framed in spring by spunky yellow wildflowers. Thus, a haiku.

A rare gift as an early Mothers Day treat: the Easter Lilies and Amaryllis blooming at the same time.

An Earth Day celebration of nature-filled Butler Shores Metropolitan Park along Ladybird Lake in Austin.

Glover Gardens is an aromatherapy district with an abundance of jasmine this spring.

An Easter message and a luscious red rose from Glover Gardens.