Finding the magic on a rainy week

It's been rain rain rain all week, and it will be so until the week comes to an end.  In those few magical spells between rain and sunshine I go out to the garden just to see how the world is unfurling outside my shell...

Finding threads of magic everywhere...

 The first blooms are appearing everywhere... 

like little yellow flashes of joy, and twinkling bells... 

The azalea tree is pink-blooming deliciously, and beyond over where the pond resides, new inhabitants are now populating it... several big goldfish, and upon finding out about my wishes and koi dreams, the Fisherman went out and got me two.  Beautiful, big and as lazy as they can be... I've never seen fishes sleeping as koi do, but they do!  Like dead-sleep.  The other morning upon believing them already dead I got a little scared and called out for the Fisherman who came running outside to find me almost in tears.  After moving the water around them kois for a while he was finally able to wake them up. It was such a happy sight seeing them swish the waters like lightings... I don't know if they're girls or boys or just kois, but I've named them Sebastian and Medusa, and I hope to see them grow bigger by the day, without any incidents from predators. 

  

Can we grow azaleas in pots?  I'm so hoping they'll survive.  I put such high hopes last year in a gardenia plant that I adored.  I planted it in a huge pot and took extra time and care to make it thrive, but the thing never did, until it had to be put away.  I'm hoping that wouldn't be the case with my azaleas. 

The Queen is growing a cilantro mustache!

Deep within the privet forest among the bramble wide you can find a magic place where witches live and fairies hide... oh, yes, this looks like our garden is hiding a secret beyond those walls...  shall we go take a peek around!

Last week when the sun was shining and I didn't have the flu and was able to worked a few hours in the late winter garden, I decided it was time to be courageous and dig out my dear Chicago Peace rose from where I'd originally planted and replant it in a better spot.  I am glad I did.  And this beautiful rose should now perform as it should.  

I'm already anticipating blooms like the ones I used to collect from my gardens at the house in the roses... unforgettable!

Unforgettable indeed... those days.  

Why am I always reliving the past?  

It is not healthy, I know... 

and yet...    

Not much I can do outside today either, but I am glad is another rainy day!

I hope you're having a marvelous week!