Dream Porch

Dream porches are a recurring topic in my life.    I especially love these low slung chairs from Viva Terra, but at $575 for the pair, I think I'll just enjoy dreaming about them on my imaginary front porch.

Al Fresco

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via Apartment Therapy via Dwellings

Vermont Morning

Photos by Polly Montgomery

This morning, as she went to hang the hummingbird feeder, she glanced down and saw the electric green moth still sleeping. 

A Moth is Born:  a friend is made.

The garden is a-hum

And I especially liked this guy's face.  The bugs were loving the bulbine yesterday.  More pics to come of some interesting bees that were humming around it.

South African Bulbine is one of my favorite plants.  Although it is not a native, it does extremely well in bad soil with little water.  The feathery long flowers look beautiful when they catch the light in the late afternoon.  Don't be confused by the name Bulbine, though.  These plants are not related to the onion family or bulbs.  They spread by rhizomes (and make for easy propagation), and their leaves are used medicinally the same way as Aloe.  Apparently Rastafarians make tea from its juicy leaves.

This book was kept by my bed at my grandmother's house and obviously inspired my forays into the spirited woods.