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Showing posts with label purple flowers. Show all posts

11 April 2020

Spring Flowers Bring...More Snow - MIssoula, Montana

Last week certainly blew through Montana with varied change - our first work-at-home Monday under statewide directive, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake next door in Idaho, sunny days followed by  widespread snowstorms  (with bonus deer bedded down in our townie yard!), a power outage that had us snuggling in for hours ...

And still it was spring, with grape hyacinths and other whatnot blooming and tulip leaves starting up through the snow. Even in the tiniest shred of earth in a crack in a cracked, dingy sidewalk, new life insists its message of hope be seen in brilliant quack-grass green
And amidst our global anxious wondering at what happens next, we hold on to hope, share wishes for a blessed Easter, and will say tomorrow, "Christ is risen!" - "He is risen, indeed!".

05 May 2017

Neighbourly Hyacinths - Missoula, Montana

Sharing is a thing in our neighbourhood. 
Among other things, we share fences, conversation, snow shovelling, the company of cats, and - this week - the  fragrant blooms of hyacinths, while they last.

19 May 2012

Freewheeling Violets, Missoula, Montana

During a front-yard chat earlier this week, my neighbour called these violets; and here I always thought they were an invasive weed with pretty purple flowers. Either way, they add vibrancy along the side path to the garage, and so they’re welcome to stay - unless they start hogging too much space. (I can hear the vinca now: "Hey! She's touching my side of the flower bed!")