During this slicing time of the day between 7:24 and 7:55, I’m usually out watering plants while the dogs run around and play in the fading daylight. I’ve repotted waning foxtail ferns, touched up succulent gardens, and recently planted a couple of dwarf butterfly bushes and added some lantana and petunias for my butterflies and hummingbirds (I’m still waiting on the hummers’ return – can’t wait to see the first one of the season!).
Somehow, my bleeding heart survived the winter and is starting to bloom a little. It always brings a smile!
oh, my bleeding heart
what is this world coming to?
shake some fairy dust!
work some life magic!
plant some seeds and watch them grow ~
you’ll be glad you did!
Common Threads 
Love your poem to your bleeding heart! We sure could use some fairy dust these days! I have looked for signs of life on my own bleeding heart and so far nothing, but there were buds on other plants last night. I am hoping…….
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Oh, that precious bleeding heart and the little fairy looking up at the bottom of the picture. The first time I ever saw bleeding hearts was in Seattle. They are magical flowers, indeed. Here’s to our bleeding hearts being healed in justice and mercy.
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Kim,
Gorgeous bleeding heart and poem. If only that opening question were not necessary. It makes the blooming plant more necessary and causes me to see the plant as having h a frown on its face. It’s gonna take a lot of seed planting to dig us out of the mire we’re in.
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What a beautiful plant and gorgeous poem. That fairy dust is sure to do the trick!
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Such a beautiful plant! I haven’t seen bleeding hearts in years, and yours looks so healthy. It is the perfect plant to star in your poem.
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Love hhearing all about your plants and flowers. And the bleeding heart! We had one growing up and seeing them always reminds me of my mom.
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Oh, I love seeing the fairies that you’ve written about in the picture. I have a bleeding heart plant, they are beauties!
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Kim, your poem is a perfect weaving of the ethereal with the all-too-real…the magic of fairy dust, the wonder of nature, the respite from the painful world at large. I so love that little fairy there in the pot with the beautiful bleeding heart. One of the things I love best about this SOLSC is the healing offered by others…I always find that here in your words.
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