Cinnamon Rolls and More Flowers

The Bleeding Heart is looking lovely.  I used to have a white one, hmmm.. I might need to get one again.

Mother nature sure did design a pretty flower!
 

This comes up through a heavy cover of creeping Myrtle every year without fail.

The Lilacs are almost ready to cut for a bouquet.

This is the Dark Purple French Lilac.  Such long clusters!

The White Double Lilac is almost ready to cut.

The gray speckled Koi is our most skittish and rarely comes out of the "cave".  Help me name him.. Smoky?  Stormy?  Your ideas are welcome! 

Chef Dayle made a pan of cinnamon rolls on Sunday afternoon.  I found the recipe on the King Arthur website.  The name is "Cinna Bun" as they tried to emulate the Cinnabon recipe.  The brown stuff on the counter is the cinnamon sugar excess that fell out of the rolls.  :-)  Full disclosure, I cropped Dayle's hair out of the photo as it's gotten long AND he is experimenting with growing out his beard.  I just ordered a battery operated hair clipper on Amazon as it looks like I might become his barber.  :-)

This is the pan of rolls after being baked but it was too hot to put the frosting on - Dayle thinks they don't look good enough for a photo, but they are delish!  Our large jar of cinnamon seems to have been tossed by my organizer husband, I had bought a small jar of cinnamon from Penzeys Spice Co. and it only came up to 2 1/2 TBS,  - the recipe called for 3 TBS so he found a jar of "Cinnamon Plus" by Pampered Chef that I'd gotten years ago.  The PC spice has cinnamon, allspice, orange peel, nutmeg, cloves and ginger and added a wonderful extra punch to these rolls.  Apparently PC no longer sells the Cinnamon Plus so you can find recipes online to make your own.

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Here is the cream cheese frosting - it comes with the recipe for the rolls.  It's delish.

The result of his efforts, oh. my. gosh.  This was divine, especially still warm from the oven!!  

Are you hungry yet?  Can you imagine the aroma?  :-)

Kristi gave me a pretty Easter basket last year with several live plants in it.  I repotted the African Violet and it is blooming!  *LOVE*

Kristi also gave me an orchid years ago, it came with dyed blue petals, when it bloomed on it's own, it's pure white with a colorful center.  I'm so happy to actually have an orchid that blooms!

A close look.

We had to run an errand yesterday so Dayle suggested we get a few flowers for our hanging baskets.  I was the "getaway driver" (a friend of mine calls her husband that when he drives her to the grocery store) 🤣 Dayle wore his mask while shopping, kept his distance and sterilized his hands when getting back into the car.  

Does anyone know what kind of bird this is?  :-)

The Bluebells from above.

The wild Cherry tree has masses of blossoms on it.

  
The birds will have lots of wild cherries to eat soon!

So fluffy and pretty.  These photos were taken with my Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ1000 camera - from my deck!

The Hosta is shooting up quickly.

Red Japanese Maple.. love those leaves.

The apple tree buds are opening.  I also got this shot from the deck.. and only saw the little red headed sparrow when I downloaded the image.  

Keiko out swimming while the 3 little Koi stay in their cave.

I also got this image of a White Crowned Sparrow while it was drinking and bathing in the upper pond.  

Dayle started a bigger fire in the fireplace/pizza oven to season the stove before we cook in it.  Apparently you need to burn off some of the paint before using it for edibles.

I saw lots of what I thought were pine cones on the 75 foot tall Douglas Fir tree.. when I looked at it after downloading it occurred to me that what I thought were cones, were just covers over the new growth of branches/needles!

OK, I need to go out and oversee Dayle as he plants the flowers!!  LOL!!  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)