Away from the garden

I miss our little white cottage.... hours away from it are like days 

and days seems like extra long months.        

I am accompanying my husband who is attending some meetings in Austin and San Antonio, and then it will be a trip to the house in the roses. It will be already the middle of July by the time we'll get back to our little white cottage... I have left angels in charge.

If we could go anywhere we want, even Paradise, would we miss our homes? If my home is not there I know I would.

When we left our little white cottage, the Endless Summer hydrangeas in the front porch were in full bloom... 

And the Iceberg roses were fully clad in all their glories--outfits suitable of queens, 

and angels wings

Hard to believe this hedge here....

is the same hedge of just a year ago...

Some of the Crape Myrtle trees in our back gardens were in bloom when we left...

...a classic sign 

...that summer is here as the tree bursts into bloom with huge, colorful flowers.

The large, drooping flower clusters in gorgeous colors remind me of the lilac trees that grew at the house in the roses.  

Sadly, lilacs won't grow here, but I do have the Crepe Myrtles now...

...butterfly bushes are doing wonderfully too

They attract myriads of butterflies to the garden...

Zinnias are almost as tall as me...

I scattered thousands of zinnia seeds this year... I love zinnias.  They grow so tall and always know how to fill my spaces with color and immense joy.

This is one of my favorite corners in the garden...

It used to look like this only a year ago today...

And this is what that corner looked like even before we put up that fence there... the glorious beam of light I was able to captured that day it certainly filled me up with hope and a sense of clarity... 

It let me see clearly into the future..

 to this now...

and this...

Once upon a time while living in another garden I had this idea that I could never love another garden as much as I loved the one I was gifted with at that time.  Well, I could not have been more wrong.  

How are you all been doing in your part of the world?