Eve. Ever After

What the heck September?! You got one measly little whiff of a hashtag PSL and you've gone full force into chilly, rainy autumn mode?! Not fair, buddy! Fall is still two weeks away 😒🙅🏻🎃🌫🍂🍁

"Oh, the vulnerability of beauty in a world of useful things." | The quote is from an un-named monk in an essay by Dwight Longenecker that my dad shared with me this summer.

"No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from the light unflinchingly." - J. R. R. Tolkien | Midweek look through my flower photos....making me want to ditch the desk life forevah. Or at least for the day 😁💐💕

To the Daisy: "We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, / When such are wanted." - William Wordsworth | Lavender and daisies and sweet wild flowers and pleasant thoughts...welcome indeed 💜🌼🌿

"Teach me your paths, my God, and guide me in your truth." - Psalm 25:4

Three hours, a rusty '89 Ford, and a loquacious granddad will get you a tour of Reno County, Kansas farmland 'round here. (at Partridge, Kansas)

Simple and bright bouquet thrown together for last night's Father's Day BBQ on the back porch. 🌺🌿 June, please never go away.

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul." - Luther Burbank | Wednesday's midday bouquet.

"Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude." - St. John Paul II | Everything - and the kitchen garden - was tossed into this bouquet (after the flowers spent an unpleasant evening in my car while I ran errands 😬) 💜💛💙

"O LORD, let the light of your countenance shine upon us! You put gladness into my heart...." - Psalm 4:7 💐✨

“I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses." - James Joyce 🌹🌹🌹| Brought a little bouquet home....it's a little worse for wear after sitting in a cup holder on my commute home on a hot day. But! They're roses. Sweet lovely juicy garden roses.

Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those who Grieve, Too Short for those who Rejoice; But for those who Love, Time is not. - Henry Van Dyke

Pink is always a good idea. 💕 Pretty little posy by @rowena_owen

"Don't lose heart. I will never forsake you. My immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God." - Our Lady of Fatima, speaking to Sr. Lúcia | Today's feast of Our Lady of Fatima is especially dear to me as Sr. Lúcia is one of my patron saints 💛 May I be mindful of Our Lady's messages at Fatima to pray for sinners and recite the rosary. Our Lady of Fatima, prayer for us!

Came the Spring with all its splendor, / All its birds and all its blossoms, / All its flowers and leaves and grasses. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | A little rusty on the flower arrangement scene but we're just getting this season started 💪🏻🌸🌼🌹 and a little morning light assuages the perfectionist's eye a bit ✨