I needed to be running out to find some sunshine today. One moment it is there and the next, it is gone. Somehow it got lost in the shuffle last night, most likely when I wasn't paying attention. Behold, here it comes. Step into the sunshine of life, wherever you may be, whatever you are doing. Spring is in the air, for days now and it is a celebration of the senses. How can we deny this truth?
I stepped into the day for my #WednesdayWalk with @tattoodjay, even though I am posting it so late in the day. This particular challenge is a great way to get out and shoot some photos, focus your thoughts, and see what you can see, giving in to a short distance to take a walk. Don't forget to look up and down, and all around. You never know what you might be missing!
It is no big secret that I love flowers and one of my favorite places is Merryfield Garden Center. Wait, let's stop and smell the flowers. Take your time through life, and enjoy those moments...Anyway, Merryfield...They have three stores in the Washington, DC Metro area, and I chose the one located at 8132 Lee Hwy, Falls Church, Virginia, just outside of Washington, DC. They have an antique truck that they are always doing fun things with. Today, they loaded it up and decorated it for spring. Hello? Are you still walking or are you still looking at that truck?
This is the sign they take along when they do a show somewhere or perhaps have a booth in one of the farmer's markets. Many of the workers there are related to the owner, then many others have worked there forever and a day. Does anyone really know how long that is?
The sell plants, trees, cut flowers are something they have now and again... I want to look at them, the freshness of Spring tempting the air. So many coming today. They must know it is a day made for walking. Plus, it is Spring!
I go through the hothouse and look at these beautiful begonias, double begonias, actually. I won't be able to put these in today, but, perhaps I can in a few weeks. Today is simply beautiful and my little piece of the world is a happy place to be. Pour on the sunshine. Be the reason that someone smiles today.
The place is large and filled with the newness that Spring brings. It was a great time to take a #WedensdaayWalk and get a look at what will be needed to add to my garden this year. I am sure I will bring you back here again and again. What?? Did I hear you say you are tired of flowers? Don't you know it is #alwaysaflower with me?
All of their locations are dog friendly, making the walk even more fun. Thank you so much for coming along with me. We walked long enough to clock in 3.7 miles. That is 6km for you people on the other side of the big pond.
Today this post is dedicated to #WednesdayWalk by @Tattoodjay. I want to thank him for hosting this challenge! I like to stroll about, taking in nature and life. What better way to document my day than to take a walk through life? My favorite! Living life and walking. How can you go wrong with that combination?
They had a whole section of different landscaping options. I am a visual person, so I like to see what they have for sale as opposed to just having it described to me.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Shakespeare
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Gently waving of feathers in the wind. Light and breezy.
Clearing pleasing. And so, Spring begins. All hail Spring!
Lovely flowers to cheer people up! Those daffodils are very deep yellow and big! Haven’t seen daffodils for ages! Some places in the north could grow tulips but daffodils are more friendly looking than stiff tulips!🙀😂
Spring has arrived to wake people up from gray and dull moods! It’s time to be in sunshine and dance with flowers!
Have a nice day!
Thank you! Actually, the daffodils are sturdier than the tulips! They are prolific and usually double their bulbs in a few years, making your garden bigger, or more abundantly populated with daffodils!
Spring has arrived!
Seize the moment! ❤️
Oh! I wish we could grow daffodils here in hot weather! Would be nice to have a sea of yellow daffodils among the banana trees! 🙀😂
Haha! Yes, indeed! You would be the only one with them! :)
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Ahhh... Spring!!! Hail Spring!!!
Do you just love it. Soon .. it will feel like spring here. The past two weeks have been so cold, brrr!!!
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Good evening. I hope you enjoyed your day.
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Spring is in the air! Spring is everywhere! It will be 80 degrees tomorrow and I am enjoying it. We had cool weather for about a week and it surprised Mother Nature as the trees were in bloom.
I do love it! I am sure yours is right around the corner!
Good evening to you, now good morning for me! I hope you are having a fabulous week! Thank you for stopping by and leaving your words! ❤️
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Sounds you had a floral Wednesday there. Its a sign of spring. All flowers are beautiful and fresh! You are the most beautiful and you share always something really beautiful in your blogs.
I loved the floral car and always love floral decorations everywhere. Thanks for sharing these beautiful photographs! Take care 💚🫶🫰
Indeed! Flowers everywhere! It was a flower nursery and they have a greenhouse for the plants that need more warmth before they are planted outside.
The car was fun, wasn't it? I am so glad you got to come along on this walk! Have a wonderful rest of your week!
This is one beautiful thing also of nature.
She places us in the best zone filled with beauties to behold.
@dswigle it feels like am right at where you walked and this whispers silently to me while reading and wiewing through your post.
Weldon for sharing with us🤝
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Indeed! Nature is truly a beauty to behold. It feels wonderful, knowing that you can feel/see what I do. I hope the rest of your week is wonderful.
Yes..very wonderful yet stressful but then you live on striving
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When we see beautiful things they always makes us happy. Spring is happiness and beauty season)) Never enjoyed from the spring beauties so much before)) Thanks for sharing 💝
Spring is such a renewing state of sight and mind, it is no wonder so many people love it. I know your cherry trees are blossoming right now and mine are too. It is, indeed, quite lovely!
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Those are really amazing flower. I also like flower very much. Some flowers are looking so amazing
The flowers are a lovely reminder of what beauty is. :) Thank you for stopping by and leaving your words.
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I know someone who loves flowers...Oh hang on, that's you! 😁
Hehe. Truly! You do too. They are so easy to love, aren't they? Right now, my faves are... everything! It is so hard to be impartial. Especially when everything is waking from the long winter nap.
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Hi, Galen!
What a beautiful place o do your walk! Wish there was something like that around here...
It is actually a nursery. We have quite a few of them. I have noticed that they have exploded with what they offer. Landscaping, trees, fruit and vegetables, fish ponds (and fish) lawn services... This isn't my parent's flower shop anymore.
Because the space is so big, I sometimes use it for my #WednesdayWalk as it has ever-changing scenery.
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I so love wandering through garden centres. I soooo need to restrain myself hahaha 🤣 otherwise the car will be full with plants 🪴 before we go home.
Nice to have a few in the area you can choose from.
Happy Thursday Denise 👋🏻😊
Have a wonderful day 🌺
Aren't they the best?? It is always a struggle to keep my wants separated from my needs when I am there! I no longer have much room to put more perennials, but, I do stick in some annuals here and there. I have to go to the Shore House where there are acres to plant. Little by little and let it spread naturally.
If I only had as much patience as Mother Nature.
Happy Thursday, Jackie! Another weekend is almost upon us! Enjoy the rest of your day!
Yes, they sure are.
I can imagine hehehe 🤭
It’s good to still indulge and get some annuals… that way you can buy some nice new plants and change it up a bit. Sounds great. The shore house has space and you can make it yours bit by bit.
Oh, I so know… if only we had so much patience like Mother Nature. Let’s enjoy what we can.
Happy Sunday Denise 👋🏻☀️🌺 enjoy your day further and have a great new week.
I’m a bit behind. Entertaining our last visitors here until tomorrow.
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You are a busy bee! No pun intended! I do like the variety that annuals give. They add a little interest to the garden, and the price is right!
I hope you are taking the time to have a quick rest before you have to dash off to another country!
Hi, Jackie!
Hahaha I know… 🐝🐝🐝 I like to be busy 😉 sometimes a bit less too… though.
Yes, it changes it up a bit and the prices are indeed right to do so.
Sadly I don’t have time to relax from now onwards.
I only have a few days this week to pack, Saturday we drive (12 hours down) to the in-laws to tile the living room over 2 full weeks. When I come back 16 April, the last bits needs to be packed and wrapped for the move in 1,5 week. Wrong timing but all will be fine. I always manage… somehow.
Time does go fast lately hahaha. I will rest a bit soon 😉😎 maybe a holiday is needed.
Hi Denise 👋🏻 hope you are well and enjoying the spring to come 🌺🌺🌺
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I always do too, manage that is. Time only speeds up when we need it to slow down a little.
I like to be busy, but, if I get too busy, I don't get things done as well as I like to. The bad luck of the site being unfriendly when I am trying to work on it.
Grrrrr.
This too shall pass. :) My son and I tiled my parent's kitchen and dining area over a weekend because that is all the time I had off and I drove 900 miles... so, I hear you. As an aside, My son and I watched someone tile our other house and now we felt expert! LOL It really came out good though!!
Oh isn’t it just hahaha 🤣 it happens always when we need more hours.
Yes, I understand. We so need to do it right.
It will Denise 😎 it does give us some quality times with my in-laws. Will be fun.
You know than exactly. Let’s see if it all works out. Apparently these tiles are hand made unsealed terracotta tiles in hexagon shape. So all are different sizes and thickness what adds to the work time.
Sounds like a busy weekend you had while doing the tiling. Good to hear it did come out great 😊
Have a wonderful Wednesday 👋🏻🌺
Those double begonias look awesome - will instantly energize.
I have to agree with you! I don't like the plain begonias nearly as much. The overabundance of blooms lasts all season! The energy is instantanious@ All that lush beauty in one pot!
Happy Thursday! Another weekend is almost upon us! Enjoy the rest of your day!
That is a pretty cool truck. Looks like Spring is in full force there. We are still slowly easing into it! I think they are calling for some more snow this weekend. No sign of the daffodils in the woods yet either.
Isn't that truck cool??? I love it and they use it in displays and it actually drives. :) I know, it is a truck!
To be honest, much of what you see that isn't cherry trees or daffodils/tulips are planted in their hothouse or indoors, so it kind of gives it a false sense of our weather. It will be 79 today, but, that is the first warm temps in a week, we had a cold spell, so all those summery-looking flowers are only at the nursery. We still have everything popping, but, not quite as full of flowers as this looks.
One of the good reasons to take a walk at the nursery!
I feel like our warm temps will be moving northward, coaxing those daffodils into submission. Wait!!! Snow this weekend? No way! We are having rain this morning, perhaps it is moving up north.
Wishing you sunshine and daffodils. :)
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We have been having temps in the 50's, but then the wind brings them back down to the 30's range. We started with rain this morning, but now I am seeing he sun shine through my office window. We have a store down the road from where I live that uses an old truck to display stuff. It isn't in as good of condition as that one and they keep it outside, but in the late spring they load it with corn and in the fall they put pumpkins on it.
I love when they use old equipment and tools for displays. It is less common today, I think, than it was a few years back. I have to say, probably since Covid. It is almost like they expect it to happen again, and have life, as we know it, come to a complete stop.
I think (or hope) that we have learned a few lessons during that time.
The farmers' markets (around here) load their old trucks with corn and pumpkins too!! It is such a wonderful time of year! Bring it on!
Let's get Spring and Summer here first!
Love this moments when the flowers are everywhere and delighting everyone's eyes with their beauty <3
You and me both!! The attraction is real, isn't it? The Spring has sprung, renewing everyone's spirits.
We won't have it any other way, yes? :)
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I got stuck on the truck and the flowers I will admit
Ohh the beautiful colors of spring you found today really brightened a foggy misty morning here, but supposedly the sun is coming out later maybe I will go searching for signs of spring
Thanks for joining the Wednesday, its always fun for me to visit the walks from all around the world, getting a feel for communities where people live and what they see on their daily walks
It was a delightfully beautiful day yesterday, only to wake up to a misty morning here. It is supposed to clear by noon and the sun will pop out (so they say!) and warm up to 79 degrees. I actually don't need it that warm at this time of year, as it only gets hotter as it gets closer to the summer solstice, as those hotter temperatures are a happening thing when we are further from the sun.
I love that truck! I would give my eyeteeth to own one. Well, perhaps not my eyeteeth, but, I have truck envy, every time I darken those doors.
The hothouse flowers are only in the hothouse, it is not warm enough quite yet, so a few of the summery flowers look a bit like we are more southern living. It is another whole world in there and they have beds planted so you swear you are outside!
It is fun in the winter to walk through there when you are missing summer. :)
Hi, JJ! Thank you for hosting such a fun challenge!
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I think the best we have had so far was 55 yesterday, and I woke to the same as you, but the sun didnt make an appearance and its been raining most of the afternoon
I to would love a classic truck like that
It is
classy!a classic!Flowers always give back into our mood.
Thay all look stunning and stress relievers. I could stay in this kind of place every day. Thank your for sharing these flowers that refreshed my eyes.
I agree! I could live in their greenhouse if they let me. :) It is always such a tranquil place to wander through.
Flowers are such gentle reminders of the beauty of Nature.
Thank you for stopping by and leaving your words. Have a wonderful rest of your week.
You are right. ☺️
You're welcome and have a happy weekend. ☺️
Thank you! The same to you!
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It's good that you are taking time to smell the flowers ♥️ I hope you will be able to get out and do it every day this year :)
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I actually do, although because of working and other life things, sometimes I do it at night, but, that matters not. What matters is that I put aside that time to make it happen.
The sponsorship is my pleasure, converting goes way further, I agree. :)
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hahahahaha... I have to get used to it.
Thank you, I see you have thought of me 😂
I have to thank you - as many do - for the good energy you put into your posts. I end up reading with a smile on my face. And well.... flowers make me sneeze but it's not serious. Just kidding.
... and Shakespeare I love it 😎
Of course! We are the only people who use miles. I have to wonder why, but, anything to be different than England - at that time in history. Thank you, pilgrims!
I am happy to hear that you like the posts. Sometimes, you just never know how a post will land on the platform. So, I appreciate the feedback. 💙
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Spring is the most wonderful time of the year! Looooove flowers!! XD
Me too! What is not to love? 😁
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Isn't it so that this month we forget about food, clothes, and shows, @dswigle... we only think about flowers! You did a #marketfriday worthy walk, I thought you "wrong" the community, haha... Just goes to show how interconnected the communities are here.
I thought about it last night as I was posting it!!! I almost held it back for #MarketFriday, but that was the first post since #MarketFriday.
Of course, I am kicking myself now as I am putting together my post for tomorrow. )
Thanks always, Dan! @bluemoon
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Haha..., how many times do I suffer the same!
Look, last week I didn't manage to post for #marketfriday and I'm very unhappy with myself. It's kind of a moral "duty" not to miss Friday's posts. Paulo Coelho wrote this somewhere, which has become very popular: "If you want something very much then the whole universe works to make it come true."
My answer to this is borrowed from Jimmy Page, who answered a reporter who asked him what he thought of the plagiarism accusations in the wonderful Stairway to Heaven... Bullshit!
I know, Denise, @dswigle, that you're going to say I don't have to feel compelled to post every #marketfriday..., but I'm being honest when I say I'm sorry.
Would you believe me if I said that I honestly believe you? You have always been so diligent about posting, no matter where you are or what you are doing, you put in 110% to get one in. I think I might have missed more than you!
The universe has its own agenda, I think. :) It doesn't care what we want.
No unhappiness allowed. I am happy to see you are still in attendance on Hive. So many of the old people are leaning into the background.
Thank you for taking the time to drop your words. It is always a joy to see you! Thank you for your thoughts!
Blooming is abundant!
Yes, the blooming is so abundant! Of course, I believe you believe me..., we've known each other for so long!
It's a pity, now that we're "old" here, to leave the ship.
I thank you for your support and for always finding a word of encouragement!
I know! I don't intend on going anywhere and yes! I look around me and so many facees I don't know! But, that is okay, it was like that in the beginning for me. I know nobody except for Uwe Lang and my Dutch friend who wasn't for more than a year.
Thank YOU for your never-ending support!!
Haha, how I'd love to be endless!
Well, I think we've become seniors here, me, and thanks to you, and thanks again for that. I saw many new colleagues and I remembered the beginnings. It's easier to be a beginner now, I see many new faces who are more appreciated than many of the old ones I know, including myself. Probably young blood is wanted...
I say the same as you, @dswigle, "I don't intend on going anywhere"! As long as I still enjoy writing and meeting up with a few friends here... where to go?
Now I want to make paraphrase again. There's a saying in the Orthodox church service where the priest says... Forgive, Lord, all sinners, of whom I am the first!
I say I'm glad of all my friends here (few) of whom you are the first!
Lovely pictures of flowers 🌸
Thank you very much! It is so hard to not love a beautiful flower! Thank you for stopping by and leaving your words.