Beauty is everywhere. All you have to do is see…
Calendula Orange Flower
We had a hard frost the other night, the coldest it has been this year. I found the resulting crystals on everything to be quite beautiful. The morning started out rather foggy, but as the day wore on the sun came out and everything became that much more beautiful!
Calendula in the sunlight
Everything was so white it looked as if it has snowed. But much to my children’s disappointment, it was just frost which by the end of the day had melted away (mostly anyway).
Playhouse and fruit garden view
Everything was white, even the sky!
Fruit garden view
My crochet-bombing of the sewer pipe is still brightening up the garden.
frosty crocheted sunflower
and then with the sun…
Fruit garden in the sun
What a difference the sun makes! I was busy tidying up inside our house because family were coming to visit us later in the day, but I kept being pulled outside to the garden to take pictures!
A frozen spider’s web
Here are some before/after sun pictures:
Beech hedges
beech hedges
I have had very little time in the garden recently, so it was fun being outside even if just for taking pictures.
A frosted hydrangea flower.
hydrangea
American Pink flowering dogwood: Cornus Florida ‘cherokee chief’
This lovely little tree I planted a year ago. You can see that it still has a few leaves on it. I bought it because it reminds me of ‘home’ back in New York. My parents had one in their yard when I was growing up.
Cornus Florida ‘cherokee chief’ (American Pink flowering Dogwood)
I can see this little tree when I am washing dishes in the kitchen. I envision seeing lots of lovely birds in it when it grows bigger, well, eventually.
A frosty Cornus Florida ‘cherokee chief’ (American Pink flowering Dogwood)
Dogwood up close
another pic of the Dogwood
On the other side of our hedge there are a row of weeds lining the fence (you can see them in the picture above). They usually annoy me, but I thought they looked quite pretty covered in frost!
Winter Weeds
The birds hadn’t finished eating all of the hawthorn berries (there were tons!).
That’s a lot of berries from earlier this winter.
Now there are fewer berries and they have quite a frosty look.
Frosty Hawthorn berries
We placed a bird nesting container in the trees not too long ago. Unfortunately, it gets a bit too windy around here so now the nesting materials are everywhere!
Bird nest gone wild
I love seeing the different looks of the fields around us, even when it is rather grey.
View from the back of the side yard.
Frosted Calendula Flower
earlier in the week
As 2014 comes to an end, I’d like to thank you for reading my blog, commenting, and “liking” it! I blog because I love to share my love of gardening/photography/baking/crocheting! I hope that I inspire you, even if just a little bit, to try something different.
I wish you a very Happy New Year and only best wishes in 2015!
In peace,
Dana
Mom in the Garden 
Oh…my…stars, Dana. Every single photograph you’ve taken is simply stunningly beautiful. If I may, and if I have your permission, to me they are so beautiful that I want to use them as ‘models’ for one of my all-time favourite things to do: still life paintings. I won’t print them out (I promise!), but instead, just have each one, as I do them, posing for me on my monitor. They are all – each and every one of them – beautiful.
Here’s to a shiny, happy new year ahead for all of us.
What a lovely compliment! Thank you so much. I love taking photos, and I’m delighted you like them. Paint away! I’d love to see your finished work if you link it back to me.
Yes, here’s to a wonderful, shiny, and Happy New Year! Xx Dana