stop and smell the flowers

when is the last time you took the time to stop and smell the flowers?

earth day

i spent earth day walking around my neighborhood and soaking up mother nature's beauties. how did you spend earth day?

just around the corner

ah spring, how i've longed for your deliciously sunny days, your warm breezes and letting your fresh air in my apartment.

i welcome you and all of your glory

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6 things that make me happy

the sweet, sweet, sweet and sharp as a tack city girl tagged me in this meme. she tagged me in the midst of my "gmat hell" so i am now just responding with my happiness list.

6 things that make me happy today are:

1. knowing that just because i didn't get a high enough score on the gmat to get into grad school isn't slowing me down and causing me any grief (in fact, i haven't shed a tear) - i will now get to pursue on of my passions (yep, still calling it plan b).

2. my beautiful flowers that ryan got me today at the farmer's market (um, on his birthday mind you).

3. getting to enjoy ribfest with ryan and our buddy T.

4. giving the dogs homemade treats from the farmer's market.

5. thinking about our trip to delaware next week - hooray for visiting a friend, eating crab, crab, and more crab and some time on the beach

6. getting ready to have enjoy some ice cream cake for ryan's birthday!

melita's rose

since ryan says i never let him buy me roses, he bought me a rose bush! he bought me a jackson & perkins "cherries & cream." today was the first day that it was starting to open up. it smells divine! i love roses (they are one of my favorite flowers but they are just too darn expensive sometimes).

isn't she gorgeous?!

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wild honeysuckle

wild honeysuckle grows rampant around morgantown. and i am SO happy that it does. it smells absolutely divine!! we dug some up and planted it by our bedroom window in hopes that we will have sweet dreams to the wonderful smell of honeysuckle. ahhhhh!!

my tiny orchid

i've had this little orchid for a while now. when i took it to work with me, everyone thought it was fake. i'll admit, it is so pretty that it looks fake. but i love the little guy nonetheless.

here is my little orchid beside the bamboo that my momma got for me.

pansy love

i love the pop of color that pansies give. here are the ones we have this year:

ranunculus

i've noticed recently that there were lots of posting going on about ranunculus. when i saw these blog posts here, here, and here it made me start to wonder if those tiny little yellow flowers that were beside of my grandmother's house (now my parent's house) are actually ranunculus.

while i was visiting my parents earlier this week i snapped a couple of pics of these cute little guys that always remind me of my childhood in hopes of determining if they were actually ranunculus or not. let me know what you think.

oh tulips, how i love thee

tulips are by far one of my favorite flowers. they are only here for a little while each spring. they give me such joy. they come in such an array of colors and even shapes. the variegated colors are really quite spectacular. if i could, i'd plant a field of tulips just to take picnics there every spring. since that is not possible, i did a little walking around town and snapping away at some of the locals...





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my rather sucky week in review

hello all. sorry i haven't been keeping up with my posts regularly. i had a pretty tough week. here is how it goes from last weekend to now:

went to dc last weekend, had a fantastic time (will post about this soon) except for my boyfriend being so sick sunday he wasn't able to leave the hotel.

sunday night after we got home on sunday, my belly started cramping and i knew what was coming, the same think my boyfriend had, nasty stomach virus.

spend sunday night/monday morning in the bathroom and laying in the bathroom floor and hall in horrible pain.

spent monday, tuesday, and wednesday in bed (and bathroom still, ugh).

thursday - finally made it to work, was told i was laid off, effectively immediately!!

thursday night/friday morning - didn't sleep much due to too many thoughts running through my head about being laid off.

friday - trying to keep my spirits up, worked around the house and garden, getting ready for spring. also helped meredith, an older lady i help at least once a month with her bills, check book, etc.

saturday - was able to sleep in a little longer than friday morning. did more gardening, planted pansies and violas around our strawberry patch and planted some seeds.

today - catching up on reading blogs, hopefully doing a little blogging of my own, and who knows, probably some more gardening as i didn't get all of my pansies planted yesterday.

yoga and spring

yesterday i attended my first yoga class in two weeks. TWO WEEKS!!! man, i really have been in a slump. it felt great to get back into the swing of things. i am hoping that this will help get me back into the routine of exercising most days of the week. before yoga class i walked each of our two dogs a half mile. they were happy to get out of the house and walking in the warm evening and i'll admit it, so was i.

i have been in a rut recently. i think my thyroid is acting up again. i have no energy, have been a little depressed, tired, cranky, and just want to go to bed as soon as i get home from work. i am SO ready to get back into exercising and watching what i eat. beach season is right around the corner!!

on a side note, spring is beginning to show it's beautiful colors around morgantown. every where i turn there is a tree in bloom or at least budding. spring is so amazing. it's like a wonderful present after such a long, cold winter. here are some pics i took yesterday as i was waiting for my boyfriend to get off of work.

lovely lotus

i find lotus flowers to be very inspirational, beautiful and very calming.