It has been a long time, my friends, since I’ve had the time or—sad to say this—the inclination to sit here in front of my computer to share my thoughts and ideas with you. While you may not have missed me, I have missed you: you let me spout and share. Sometimes you comment. Often you are silent. And I am always pleasantly surprised when someone tells me she has been reading my blog but never commented.

    I am quite busy at work. But this is no excuse to miss chatting with friends. But please allow me to share that I am finding life a little too frantic to allow me to slow down and formulate thoughts. Perhaps I should take up yoga again, as my chiropractor thinks I should?!

    I have not taken a lot of photos recently, nor have I taken walks through my neighbourhood. But my hard work from last Spring is paying off with a lovely maturing rock garden that makes me smile every time I look at it. And now, as we approach the end of May, the lily of the valley is in bloom along the side of my house. As I stood in my kitchen making a salad to accompany tonight’s dinner, I breathed in the cool air of the late afternoon and was intoxicated with the scent of the tiny white flowers.

    So now, to share the beauty that makes me smile every morning and evening as I leave or return home. The iris was taken yesterday at almost 6:57 p.m. The long view of my rock garden, with a beautiful mound of Blue Emerald Phlox in the foreground and yellow oregano highlighted in the midst of all the green, I took that one at 6:43 p.m