Beautiful Rain

                                                                     

We have had a lot of rain these last few weeks, the lawns and gardens are growing at top speed. It's hard to keep up sometimes.
                                                 

I love the space that living in the country brings, but sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a lawn as big as a handkerchief and a wee, tiny garden...                                                 

Mostly though when I feel the breeze on a warm day, and see the horses and sheep grazing contentedly, watch magnificent skies, I know beyond anything else I am blessed.
                                                       

Blessed to be on my own bit of heaven on earth. Breathing fresh country air, still only a couple minutes from a little village that draws hundreds of tourists each year.                                          

                                    

During the rain last week I started puttering, you know how it goes. You decide to change one thing and suddenly like dominoes you've created a ripple throughout several rooms. 
                                                                           

                 simplified surfaces and a quilt for a throw..love my newest, quirky little owl

                               switching pictures and mirror...

placing pretty bouquets

because rain is simply a state of mind..

and a good antidote to a gardeners soul.

the first photo was my perennial bed a week ago.

now this..

Thank you rain!