A Summer Cottage By The Sea

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” ~Frederick Keonig

Hello my sweet friends. Happy Summer!

 

 

As I write today’s post I’m heading out for a mini get~away.

 So mini that more than likely I  will have returned home by the time you even stop by for a visit here. you won’t even know I have been gone

 Before I left I had been busily working in the garden.

Season by season everything seems to be evolving

 

It’s delightful to experience how things are coming together

I’m not sure if I ever showed you the New England arbors I had installed

or the arbor in back with a new bird bath

The window box built earlier in the year is looking wonderful

and the roses have been blooming on and off for months

This pink rose bush is my favorite. I have no idea the name of it, do you? however the scent is absolutely intoxicating. I think the bush might have been planted way back when this cottage was lovingly handcrafted. (grin)

Oh! and my pink hydrangeas which are now blue  were planted when I first moved here almost two years ago! ( I really can’t believe that this amount of time has passed already) are as happy as ever.

and of course

so

am

I

Wishing you all the joys of the summer season

btw….how’s your garden coming along?