Welcome to A Favorite Thing #42! I love our little weekly gathering; such a wonderful group of people comes together every Friday and Saturday. Thank you so much for taking part.
Let’s look at some highlights from last week.
Cottage Making Mommy shared what was blooming around her farm. Those tomatoes are looking pretty tasty.
Helen, of And Who Says You Can’t, shared her transformation of an old phone table. Go look at her post and see the before – amazing transformation!
Regula shared the climb she and her husband made up the stairs in this structure – 189 steps – in order to take in an incredible view. My heart is beating way too fast at just the thought of it! If you click on the link, you’ll see the view from the top.
My favorite thing this week? My garden. Gardening. Everything to do with the gardens I have built over the past 7 years here at the cottage. It just may be that nothing makes me happier. Truly. I look around here at our property and our cottage, where there is always something growing and blooming – where there are textures, colors, a thousand different shades of green – and I feel incredible happiness. Earlier today I was saying to Don that I wished I could garden all year round. And I do. But, maybe, just maybe, I appreciate it all the more because of our four seasons. I just know I’m incredibly grateful for finally having my own garden after living in city apartments and rental cottages for most of my life.
Now it’s your turn.
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One of my concerns about link parties is that the very reason for them has somewhat gone by the wayside. They’ve become so big and there are so many of them that many bloggers don’t take the time to visit any of the other participants. Link parties are a way to meet new bloggers and share with each other and the only way to do that is to visit each other. So, please, take some time to visit everyone over the next few days. No rush. Stop by, introduce yourself, and leave a comment. It’s the neighborly thing to do. It’s also nice if you leave a comment here, as well.
Have fun, everyone!
Loved seeing your garden today Claudia. Its been a big week. Thank you for hosting A Favorite Thing, I love joining in.
Joy
Thanks for hosting Claudia. Your garden looks so lush. Love the pale pink roses.
Denise
I so pray you and Don do not have to be apart so much.My heart hurts for you!
Dottie
Oh Claudia….my garden used to be my favorite thing….and then I moved….and started a new one with bits I brought with me….and moved again…and started with lots of hard work to create a new one and then I moved again, but taking even fewer bits with me this time. After they had been heeled in for the winter, we’ve been dividing the plants I brought with me and I’m so excited to have created, again, making something from this overgrown weed patch. There’s still lots to do…but it’s a fabulous start….and since I don’t have the funds to purchase anything….I am over joyed.
Your flowers are truly beautiful. Don’t you love how that time in the garden feeds your soul?
That pale pink rose is the prettiest thing. I’m loving my garden these days, too. Wishing I could spend more and more time in it.
Hi Claudia,
Your garden is your summer sanctuary, your reward for so much hard work, along with Don’s, and a place to relax and read and spend sweet summer moments! Thanks for hosting! Have a wonderful weekend!
Poppy
Good Morning Claudia, I agree with you, gardening is a wonderful pastime, it certainly feeds the soul and it is so therapeutic. I have moved many times in my life and each time, I had to plant a garden from scratch, only to move after three years. The garden would begin to mature and then we would be “off” again.
Your garden has matured beautifully….. isn’t it exciting when you reach the stage where you can divide plants and move them around the garden or give them away to friends. I am just at the stage of being able to do that, my Yellow Loose Strife is becoming a little too large as is my Johnson Blue Geranium, so this Autumn I will be dividing these plants to give away.
It would be fun to garden all year round, but there is something about the change in seasons which I love. In Spring it is exciting to see new shoots peeping through the ground. In Summer to enjoy lush flowers with so much colour, then in Autumn, certain plants are still flowering, but slowing down and then in Winter plants disappear back under the ground and so the cycle begins again in Spring and with it, new hope.
I can feel your happiness shining through when you write about your garden.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Best Wishes
Daphne
Those stairs make me dizzy! :)
That soft pink rose makes me swoon! Thanks for hosting Favorite Things!
hugs,
Linda
good morning Claudia! I love those roses. My yard is way too neglected for me to care for any sort of flowers, I’m hoping some day to have my own rose garden. Until then, I’ll admire others, like yours. Thanks for hosting!
Hi Claudia, I am home for a bit, sure missed my garden. Hoping I can get a couple of weeks working on the yard before another job turns up. Your garden is a treat to see.
Rob
Claudia,
Thank You so very much for featuring me. I love your blog more than you know.
Hugs,
Valerie