Oregon Has a Reputation...

...of being rainy and cloudy.  I would like to tell you that it's a big hoax to keep the hordes away from our little Eden.  But it's green here for a reason.. :-)

Hubby cut these daffodils yesterday after hearing that a new front was to come in today and drop lots more rain.  Let's just say these are happy little dry flowers who escaped the downpour today.  

Here's a photo to prove what I'm telling you... can you say *gloom*?  Thank goodness our 3 chickens don't seem to mind and are giving us 2 or 3 eggs a day.  Hubby picks them a big handful of green grass each day as we can't let them roam free as we lost one early on to a raccoon, coyote or fox.

Don't the Daffodils brighten up the rainy day?

Is there anything more saturated with YELLOW than a Daffodil?  And the aroma is quite simply unique and makes me think of all the Springtimes over the years.

We just picked a small bouquet of Daphne Odora - the only 2 flowers in bloom here on the farm right now.  Have you ever smelled one?  If you have, you'd never forget it.  This little posy is sitting on the table next to me and the fragrance is wafting up to me.  Mmmm.

I found this little vase at an antique show in Hood River several years ago, it's turning slightly purple from the sun and has little thumbprints all around it.  It's just the right size for small bouquets such as this and especially my favorite, Lily-of-the-Valley of which I have a very large patch of them to the right of our brick pathway up to the front porch and front door.  I can't wait till they bloom and I'll share them with you.  Don't you wish blogs had "smell-a-vision"?  :-)

I hope you're having a nice week, ours is nice and calm, I only have one commitment this week, I have a Friends of Multnomah Falls bus tour planning dinner meeting on Thursday.  We will be planning the itinerary for a bus tour of the Columbia River Gorge and will be having lunch at the Columbia Gorge Hotel, a vintage and wonderful hotel that sits on a cliff with a major waterfall right behind it!

((Hugs)) Teresa