Garden Flowers and Dayle's Saga

I promised to show you how our flowers are growing in our wild farm garden.  So this morning I took my iPhone out in a light rain and fulfilled my vow to you.  This Rhododendron is my favorite, the tree/shrub is 20 feet tall.

The Rhodie on the left is white and the blooms are already spent due to the warm sunny streak we had.

My big bush of dark purple throated Rhodie.

Behind the office/studio is a tall pink Rhodie and this magnificent orange Azalea that Kristi bought and planted for us.

I must say I love this, this bloom is stunning!

My Hostas have come to life.  I am thinking I need to hire a gardener to do some work in our garden.

Our new hanging baskets are starting to look prettier by the day.  

We got this new Rhodie last year and I want to get it planted, I've always loved the purple ones but the one I got a few years back didn't make it.

This cute little variety of Lilac that Kristi brought home is doing well, too.

I have 2 varieties of Clematis planted together and they're opening up.  Do you pronounce it Clem-AT-us or CLEM-uh-tus?

Another dark pink one and a white one with yellow throat markings.

On the left is the dark purple marked one.

The yellow marked one.

My patch of Lily-of-the-Valley.. they are nearly done.. wah.. I missed picking a bouquet of them.  Life has been way too busy this month.

My pink rosebud Azalea is beginning to bloom.

My brother Rob has found out some interesting info about our family history - we are descended from King Charlemagne from the 700s!

Statue of Charlemagne, located in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican.

Imperial Coronation of Charlemagne, by Friedrich Kaulbach, 1861.

I stopped by to visit my blog friend Gracie after swimming on Monday.  She had an ailment this winter and lost a lot of weight, she looks so nice!  She's doing better now, thank goodness.  

She showed me some beads that I gave her and wondered if she should make the necklace longer, but when she put it on I thought it was the perfect length.  These are vintage beads from the 20's or 30's - cobalt blue - Gracie collects cobalt glass.

Now.  About Dayle.  My dear husband of 49 years.  He'd been telling me that he felt a lump in his throat, so I told him to talk to the doctor about it.  He did and they sent him for an ultrasound.  They identified that his thyroid was twice the size that it should be.  Surgery was scheduled for yesterday.  We were up at 5 and out the door at 6:15 for a 7 am check-in.  They got him prepped for a 9 a.m. procedure.  After HOURS of waiting the surgeon came to talk to me.  It turned out that the growth was as big as her hand and wrapped around his windpipe and spine.  It took 2 surgeons 3 hours to cut it out.  I brought him home today.  They kept him one night.  It will take 3 days to do a biopsy.  Wish us luck on this.  I'll keep you in the loop.  

((hugs)), Teresa :-)