Echinaceas make me smile, too.

Here are the echinacea!  Today I cut about 5 more and added to this arrangement, so it's getting even prettier and pinker.  That gray 'greenery' is artemisia; I love it for giving body to an arrangement.  Those echinacea would look lonely in a vase by themselves!   The magnolia bloom on the table is getting brown spots and wrinkling . . . sounds too familiar, but I still love it.  The new ones aren't ready to cut, yet, so I'm going to enjoy this one until the leaves fall completely.

Lee and I worked in the iris patch for hours this morning.  We got about 1/3 of them done.  It's time to trim the greens.  Man, that's hard on the back, but it was sure wonderful to have a great helper!  I remember doing it by myself last year and that was a bummer.  We still have more to do, but we still have able bodies and we thank God for that!  I came in and took a nap and I'm good for the evening.

It's 101 here right now, so we got over winter, finally.  I think there was no spring; we just slipped right into summer.  I'm okay with that.  Cancer doesn't like heat, so I do all the heat I can take and thank God for it!