Everydaystranger

The heat continues, and my motivation at work has completely sapped. This week has bee particularly stressful and hectic, and amongst the needles and pills comes the need to break off and spend some me time.
Today I’m going to bunk off work and paint the kitchen. It’s going green. I’m calling it “Motherfucker Green”, because it is seriously green (as we’re ripping the kitchen out in less than a year, we can be as outrageous as we want with the coloring-it won’t last.) Angus was keen on another color, but I felt it was a little too “The Banana Republic Just Vomited on My Kitchen” for me.
So today’s post will be the cop out known as Picture Pages. Here are some pictures of the colors in my life, all natural, no Dulux, all brought to you by the color “organic” (crunchy granola much?)
The one thing the heat is good for is my orchids. My orchids are exploding in pots of color in the kitchen window. Orchids are notoriously difficult to grow but for some reason, they love me.
So I can now bore you with pictures of them.

One of them has become a waterfall of blooms, and new buds threaten the branches with heavy promise.

The plain white ones are, somehow, my favorite. They are simple, understated, and delicate.

Outside the heat has managed to make the roses bloom even more. We found a load of white roses growing in the very back of the garden.

They didn’t last long, but they were beautiful.
One morning Angus saw a yellow rose growing alone from the side of the garden. It bloomed and made me smile-I wish I had a load of Texas Bluebonnets pockmarking the garden but a yellow rose (of Texas) was enough.

I am growing sweet peas up a trellis in the garden. They are going mad and flowering all over the place, I’m not sure I was ready for the onslaught (it feels a bit like a horror movie-”When Flowers Fight Back-II”). I pick them and put them in a French juice jar I kept, and the sweet peas fill the kitchen with perfume.

And yes, that is a giant bottle of bubbles in the background.
Finally, I took a picture of a dandelion fluff in the newly painted study yesterday. It was on Flickr, but it’s a picture that makes me grin so I wanted to put it here.

Here’s to catching falling stars in your hands.
Have a great weekend.
-H.