Love it! Thanks for making me smile

Mara, my friend Linda M. who got it for him had the same thought and has already bought him another one for when this one wears out ! LOL He has other toys, but loves that monkey the most!

If I remember right , the animal he was dragging around a week , or was it two weeks ago was a dirty raggedy ochre colored critter.

I love your mums and your sweet pups!

Thank you Abarbie and Pam.

Mara, you remember well. That was his old favorite, the bear. Oh, but the monkey has long legs that go 'flap, flap, flap,' when he shakes it. Dogs are so much fun.

Anybody else have mums blooming now?

What a personality that Alfie has !! Great pics, Ragna, and beautiful as always.

Carrie, thank you. Well, if no one has any mums to add I'll add a photo, a very plain jane photo.

An artist visited my garden. After 'the tour' as she was leaving she pointed to an humble little flower that had come up through the bricks and said, "Now that's what I really like." Oooh-kay .... So I took a picture of it.

You've heard the saying, "Bloom where you're planted."

This one could be titled, "Bloom where ever you find yourself."

This reminds me of the lonely little vinca that sprouted in a very small hole in my patio..has been there several weeks now and blooms one bloom at a time.

Not daisies, not mums , but a wild aster. I ain't complaining.

I love those wandering crack bloomers.

Still waiting for my mums to bloom. What is that cute pink flower in the bricks?

Abarbie, the plant is Pseuderanthemum alatum, commonly called Chocolate Plant

It's an old fashioned pass along plant that seeds itself around, but is always welcome to do so. Sometimes if they come up where they get too much sun by the time mid to late summer comes around and I have to pull them up, but mostly I just enjoy them, for their foliage as well as the flowers, where ever they happen to appear.