Back Porch Table Flowers...

I must have flowers always and always!

Claude Monet - I totally agree!

For what is life without the beauty of flowers?

Picked flowers are not just for the inside of the home...

The gorgeous bowl of lilies is on the back porch mosaic table...

This lily is a Belladonna variety.

Also know as 'Naked Ladies' -

due to the fact the flowers emerge first without the modesty of any foliage.  

Easy to grow and fabulous for picking!

It's stunning in creamy whites

with a golden yellow throat.

I must have flowers always and always! 

In Love with Shabby Wrought Iron And Finials...

Finials...

Shabby and worn.

 Beautiful...

with their aged patina.

 With hints of rust and lichen...

Finials in all their glorious shabbiness...

 With intricate detailing...

standing below them...

 Timeworn and lichen covered...

I am in LOVE 
with shabby wrought iron and finials!

Photographs taken by Tracey Lee Cassin at Collingwood, Golden Bay, New Zealand
Early Settlers Historical Cemetery.
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Candy Floss Coloured Rhododendron Flowers...

 I'm calling her 'candy floss'.
Because the petal colourations 
are reminiscent of that melt in your mouth treat!

 Actually the real reason is...
I simply don't know her name!

 But this huge handful 
of delicious candy floss coloured flowers...

Is a large shrub rhododendron, 

and Mia Bella Gardens 
just could not keep her a secret!