How's your Sunday going...

...we've had a real mixed bag of weather here.

It hasn't been cold but we've had fine showers off and on for most of the day.

I went over to Mum's to take her shopping and I would swear that these chives have multiplied since last week...

...they are by the front gate post on Mum's driveway...

 ...although they weren't planted there by her she hasn't pulled them up because the flowers are so pretty and they attract the honey bees. They also remind us both of Dad as he loved to eat chives and onions. The tiny pink flowers with them are hardy geraniums which seem to have gone mad this year but look really lovely in the way they tumble over the edge of Mum's raised beds.

Mum was always the gardener in our family although these days she limits her garden to things that pretty much look after themselves and come up year after year. Dad could never tell a flower from a weed and this lovely bloom would have totally confused him...

 ...it is a paeony rose (peony) and has the most wonderful scent...

 I snapped these pics between showers...

...and you can see the raindrops on the leaves.

Dad would never have considered this to be a 'rose' in any shape or form - his idea of a rose was the typical climber or bush rose and was probably the only flower that he was ever able to be confident in recognising. Over the years he did most of the donkey work in the garden under Mum's direction but would never have considered himself a gardener.

Mum's front garden looked very pretty today with all the shades of pink nestling against the green and I'm sure it was all thanks to a certain Angel - thank you Dad..................................................