brenda Every year, in the month of May, bestselling author, Brenda Novak, runs an online auction for Diabetes Research.  This is the fifth year. Want a bargain?   Pick up some cool jewels, have lunch with a famous author, travel or have a super agent evaluate your manuscript or proposal or have a big house editor review?   You can help others for mere change while you enjoy yourself.  

I’m happy to be a part of Brenda’s auction this year.  You can get an auto copy of my book, The Unbreakable Child.  Or stay at my retreat, Summer Shade, where mimosas cradle and crayon my hundred-year-old cottage.

Head over to Brenda’s site and support this most-worthy cause. You’ll be glad you did.

I’ve noticed a lot of your places are blooming, literally!   Beautiful spring blooms.  And I believe: a home is not complete unless it has a library and a garden.   And like so many of you I enjoy seeing them both grow.

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… three years later after I rescued this twig of a snowball bush, it finally bloomed.

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The pears are growing.  I’m not too fond of pears, but the old Bartlett produces in abundance and soon I’ll donate the fruit to the nursing home.

 

 

IMG_1914And this is  my most precious.  St John’s wort.  I’ve had many stop by and take cuttings, leaving behind, hatchet jobs until I finally found a nursery who would order for them.  

 The first week of June, without fail, it will produce these beautiful flowers until late September.

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What’s growing in my Library;  Karen Harrington, Janeology

What’s playn’ on my ipod:  Rob Thomas, Her Diamonds