This past week the spiral of my life brought me to Miami Florida! I’ve never been to Florida before, so it was a fun, new adventure for me!
My sister and her husband flew me there to spend a few days with them while they are on vacation down there. How nice of them was that?! I’m so grateful!
But do you know what guys? The winter loves me so much that it followed me all the way from Minnesota and made iguanas fall from the skies! Yep. They had a windchill advisory and everything. One local told us it was the coldest temps they’ve had in 5 years. I blamed myself and promptly apologized. 😉
But being a cold-hearty Minnesotan, I found it amusing that they issued a windchill advisory for 35 degree weather, and my sister and I giggled to see many of the locals all bundled up in winter clothes. You guys think this is cold? Bah, you haven’t seen nothing! Incidentally, I hadn’t packed any of my own warm clothes, thinking it was gonna be 80 degrees. I didn’t even wear a coat to the airport, knowing I wouldn’t need it. But I was wrong, it was indeed quite nippy on Tuesday evening. But that didn’t stop us from going out to the hot tub that night. The only other people we met out there with us were from Canada. Maybe they’re the ones to blame for bringing the winter weather! Hahaha!
When I got back home, I heard that the National Weather Service had also issued a warning about “Falling Iguanas” on their Twitter page and that really took the cake! But in actuality, that’s not funny. Poor things! And they weren’t really falling from the skies obviously, they were falling from the trees.
I didn’t see any fallen iguanas while I was there, but I did see one, and thankfully, it was alive and well. It was really cool to see. I snapped a picture of it, but didn’t get a good quality shot…
You can’t tell from the photo, but it was HUGE! I wish I could have gotten closer, but it ran away as I approached. I was lucky to even get this shot.
I feel lucky to have even seen it at all! And lucky to have seen all of the other wonderful and beautiful things I saw while I was in Florida too! I have 300+ other photos that I snapped during the few short days I was there. Excessive much? 😉 But I won’t make you scroll endlessly to look at them all, I’ll try and share them little by little in future posts.
But I will share this one before I go…
My big seester and I at the lighthouse on beautiful Key Biscayne ❤
May your day be with love! And may the spiral of life bring you to beautiful places, people and things today…
I know I just said this in my last post (apparently I like to repeat myself), but everything is a song. Or, everything reminds me of a song. And as I was preparing to share these following photos another old song came to mind. But more on that later…
Another flower show I recently attended was called Garden Party: An Uncommon Floral Experience and was located inside a local shopping mall. Because of the mall setting, the vibe was quite different than the flower show at the conservatory that I shared about the other day, but the displays and the flowers were absolutely gorgeous!
This display was ooo aah. You can’t really tell how lovely it was from this picture, but there were two magnificent flower arrangements in tall vases on the table…
Another view
This one was my favorite setting, but again, the photo doesn’t truly capture…
The name of the mall is called the Galleria, which I imagine is the story behind the letter G in this next one. And here’s me repeating myself yet again… but this photo can’t truly capture this display, it was HUGE and incredibly beautiful. The G was created with various succulents and the combination of textures and colors was so cool. I loved the orchids cascading down the one side and the roses on top…
Everything was teapots, cups and saucers themed…
But the flowers, of course, were actually the main theme for me…
I got excited when I found some lavender (my fave) mixed in. Mmm…
I even picked up some of my seeds for my veggie garden while I was there…
I can’t wait to get planting! 🌱
I have more to share, but I think you’ve scrolled long enough. 😉 It was a lovely little garden party to attend, thanks for joining me! Can you imagine this an as outdoor experience? Dreamy! 😍
I can’t wait to spend time in my humble little gardening space! But Spring sure is taking it’s sweet ol’ time getting here to Minnesota… we have 12- 18 inches of snow in the forecast for Wednesday through Friday this week. Ugh. Oh well, what can you do? Can’t control nature. 🙃
I found my little stash of pressed flowers that I had packed away in an old box and thought I’d play around a bit arranging some flowery flat lays. Some of these flowers are from gardens I had way back in the early 90’s!
I’d like to experiment doing more of this type of thing and maybe even try creating some mandalas using these old pressed flowers. It’s snowing yet again today (huge, pretty flakes!), so finding creative indoor activities is always good. 😉
Thanks for letting me share, have a beautiful day, and Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘
I don’t feel like I’m done with autumn yet, but I always want it to last longer than it does, so that’s typical. 😉
We had our first real snowfall overnight Thursday night, and I hadn’t realized any was coming, so it was a bit of a surprise to wake up to. I haven’t even raked up the leaves in my yard yet. Oops! But hey, I’ve been otherwise occupied – my new little Grandson is one week old today. 💙
We didn’t get a whole lot of snow, but I spent about an hour and a half shoveling yesterday morning. It was hard on my back, but I was feeling so grateful for my new knees! The cold air was invigorating and the snow made me feel all sorts of festive for the holidays coming up.
Anyways, I was delighted to find some pretty frost on my window as I watched the sun come up this morning, and I look forward to seeing more of it. I know, I know… most people dread winter, but there truly is so much beauty to be found if we look for it. And it’s just so dang cozy!
Wishing you beauty and warmth today wherever you are…
We’re just getting our first taste of autumn color here in Minnesota on this first day of fall. It’s typically well under way by this date on the calendar, but it’s late this year, probably due to the unusually warm temperatures we’re having. Hopefully that means fall will last longer than usual too. I love all things autumn! 😍
May your day be filled with all that you love. Happy 1st day of fall! 🍁
Sorry, I have no photo to share with this one today, just my words as I sip my coffee, watching (and listening to) the silent snow falling outside my window this Sunday morning…
The air was so thick and heavy when I went out to my garden this morning, I knew something was about to break in the atmosphere. It’s been hot, hot, hot, and humid here this past week, and a good thunderstorm is such a sweet release.
Stay dry my friends. Or wet, whichever you prefer. 😉
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