Tuesdays With Tracy: Summer Details In My Garden and Home

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Hi Friends,

Kelly’s mom here to visit with you in the beautiful month of May. This is this morning’s view out our living room window. The ducks are usually here but today we were visited by pelicans.

Summer Details in the Garden

We have a few things in bloom and everything has greened up beautifully. Below are some blooms in the front yard. Some alliums and Creeping Veronica.

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. – Koshin Ogui

Below on the side of the driveway are some Winnipeg  Parks roses and a Snowball Viburnum.

Aren’t those viburnum blooms spectacular!?  Here is the one in the back garden.

The first thing to bloom every year is our Brunera Jack Frost.  I love the blue flowers!

I did some winter seed sowing in milk cartons in March. Hollyhocks, Poppies, Lupine, & Sweet Peas.  The only seeds that didn’t germinate were Delphiniums.

I probably should have planted them earlier.  Some of them were root bound.  The sweet thing about winter sowing is that the plants are naturally hardened off and can be planted before your last frost date.  My husband Larry, helped me prepare the soil in a sunny spot and I got them planted.

Summer Details in My Home

My mother had a beautiful eye for detail in her home.  She would pour over House Beautiful and Traditional Home magazines and loved all the details.  She was enamored with one particular designer, Charles Faudree.  I found this used book of his and now I know why my sweet mama loved details.

“People’s lives are expressed by little details.  They give a room its soul.”

– Charles Faudree

It’s been beautiful here in Northern Colorado this month. For summer I have rotated my pillows and quilts.  I tend to lean towards reds and blues in the good old summertime.  The red tassels were purchased more than thirty years ago on a shopping trip with my mom.  Details…

I rotated my vintage quilts and grain sacks in the goat cart. I actually found this old grain sack in Italy at a street market.  I was so excited to find one with our initials!  Details…

Oh hey, hi there! How about some pineapples and sea shells in wicker.  Oh, and a huge fishing float that I picked up at a garage sale a few years ago.

Details…

“Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.”       –  Kellie Elmore

Hello old pew decorated for summer!  If you haven’t noticed, I like to rotate the art in this area.  So out came the beach painting for some summer… detail.

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.  To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” – Regina Brett

Look at the clouds in the summer sky! The bowl is full of my collection of vintage Japanese fishing floats.  Most of them I inherited from my aunt & uncle who lived on Wake Island back in the 1960’s.

The beads with the cross were a gift from Kelly. Details…

That wraps up some of the summer details in my home.  I recently had a fun day at a local flea market with both my girls, Kelly & Lindsey.  Sometimes we find nothing. But, this time a couple of items came home with me.

Flea Market Finds

Check out the photos below. I’d love to have you guess what may have come home with me. And yes, that is a jar of doll parts for $30, ha!  

Cheers to a summer full of sunshine, rest, and contentment.

Love,

Tracy

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