Old fashioned


 Both of the Grand daughters have arrived!  Like flowers in the garden, they blossomed one at a time.


Their fresh new lives are a lovely unfolding of beauty, hope and mystery.


White peonies


The little ones have charming, old-fashioned names. Clara May and Ella Jane. This seems just right. The old-fashioned garden plants welcome them with soft perfume.


Magenta peonies (Paeonia officinalis)


Old peony bed


Dr, Huey (1914)


 Mock orange (Philadelphus virginalis)

Sarah van Fleet (1922)


Service-berries ripening (Amelanchier alnifolia)

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