Oh What A Beautiful Morning.....

A Memorial Day Cook-out....

I Hope you won't mind Dear Readers, if I once again Regale you with pictures of The Lilac bush in sunshine! We had a couple of sunny days and they were not only sunny but on a Holiday weekend too! It was so delightful to finally feel as if Summer was planning to show up sometime this year.
I had to take a bunch more pictures of this beautiful blossoming bush and share them with you!

And I will say that the local RL lilacs are finally in bloom too!

 I feel as though I need to capture every possible minute of sunshine.....

Oh, what a glorious morning it is!

The sunshine makes such a difference!

It is even lighting up the kitchen of The Folly!

And Will has invited his friends over for a cook-out...

 

He needs to get ready!

Over at The Lovely Old Dollhouse,

 Arthur suddenly remembers they promised to go to the Cook-out!

"When are we supposed to be there?" he asks Pollyanna.

 "Oh, I think he said early afternoon..." she replied.

"Maybe we should go now!" she added.

 

They were the first to arrive and Will was just getting the fire going.

Pollyanna decides to join Gabrielle at the porch.

(She has noticed that Gabrielle and Will seem to be dating a lot.)

Arthur has noticed this too....

"So, are you and Gabrielle.....?" he asks Will.

Will tries to not make a big deal of it.... 

"Well, I like her.... she's a lot of fun..." he says.

Then Victor and Joanna arrive....

 

 they head for the refreshments first, 

it is finally warming up outside!

 

And last but not least, Charles asks Helen

 if she is ready to head to the cook-out...

They decided to arrive a little late and leave a little early...

They didn't want to sit for too long outside!

Helen has found a lovely stone bench overlooking the brook...

 

Somebody needs to clean this place up, she thinks to herself.

"What a lovely view..." says Charles!

Well, Dear Readers, you might be wondering

 if I did nothing else on these sunny days...

But I assure you, I completed another lilac blossom!

And joined it with last week's blossom to make another double one....

And added some leaves....

And tested it in the other jar on the mantel....

And started to make some blossoms for the Tiny Room-box.....

(They need a bit of work still....)

Here you can see it with a bit more light....

Still a long way to go.... but it is a start!

As for the Cook-out....

It was such a beautiful day, 

Nobody seemed to notice, Dear Readers, 

how long it took to get the food cooked!

A Moment of Sunshine....

Catch It If You Can.....

Some of you, Dear Readers, might have wondered where Will was now that the Lilacs were in full bloom. I can promise you that like many of us, he was hurrying to and from work every day in the rainy and gloomy weather, and had not been paying the lilacs any attention. So one sunny morning as he stepped out on the porch the blooming bush really took him by surprise! He could not believe he had not noticed before. It seemed almost as if the blossoms had appeared overnight!

It was such a magnificent sight that it stopped him in his tracks!

He was almost positive that the bush had never bloomed so beautifully before....

 

 

At least he could not remember if it had....

Or perhaps he had just been somewhere else when they bloomed!

But the scent was just Heavenly!

It made him wish he could share the experience.... 

Perhaps he would make a plan after work...!

 

But then, Dear Readers, there was a Moment

 when the sun really did shine in!

A Brief visit in the early morning....

 

 

Oh, what a rare thing this has been!

 

Can you see why I am so glad to see it shining on my Little Worlds?

I grabbed my camera to try and capture it...

 Even Will was astonished at the brilliance...!

And then it was gone!

I'll invite a few friends over for a cook-out... he decides.

This is just too special to miss!

Meanwhile, I have finished another blossom....

The Fifty-something-eth blossom!

And I added it to the vase on the mantel of The Folly.

(How many blossoms do you think each bouquet will need?)

Well, Dear Readers, it is a good thing

 that I can just keep on making lilac blossoms

 while I am waiting for the sun to shine.

Those moments are Rare, but Heavenly....

So catch them when you can!

Lilac Bouquets....

More Blossoms....

You might wonder, Dear Readers, if I have ceased making lilac blossoms yet, and the answer would be "Of course not!" There are all those bouquets that need to be supplied... and you would be surprised how many blossoms it takes to create a lush display! Since this is a slow and on-going process, you will have to accept that I started small. The above blossom in a canning jar is something I have wanted to show since Forever! In fact, this desire just might have sparked the entire lilac bush project! Ideally there would be another blossom or two added to this humble bouquet... but the larger double blossom branch was too heavy and toppled from the jar. I will show it later. But first I wanted to share with you a few more pictures of the shrub in morning light...

Because we had sunshine the other day!

This has been such a rare thing this spring!

 

In the RL garden the blossoms of the lilacs are still not in bloom!

 

The cold and the rain have been relentless....

I hope you don't mind if I dwell on the mini blooms instead!

We can pretend they are blooming everywhere!

 

And Meanwhile, Dear Readers, 

I am still making a blossom a week!

I wanted some of the blossoms in the bouquets

 to be the double blossom kind.....

And it really does take me two weeks to make!

But, as I said earlier, this heavier blossom

 toppled right out of the little jar.

It needed its own display.

I searched through all my houses for the proper vase...

And finally found one on The Folly mantel.... 

or rather, I found a pair of them on The Folly mantel...

Do you think this means I will have to make a Pair of lush lilac bouquets?

(I know it is too dark to see well in here....)

With a little added light..... 

can you see how Perfectly Lovely it will be to have two bouquets?

(Oh, what have I gotten myself into?)

So you can see Dear Readers, 

I have not ceased making lilac blossoms.... 

and probably will be making them

 for Quite a while longer...

because Lush bouquets need More blossoms!

Oh May!

Oh My....!

I Hope you can Imagine, Dear Readers, just how Happy I am to be able to Finally show you the Blooming Lilac Shrub! And I hope you can understand how difficult it is to get good pictures! The weather in this part of the world has been relentlessly cold and rainy and gloomy. This morning was the first sunny morning in weeks... but I leave for work before the sun climbs over the neighbor's house to shine in my windows. I tried to catch a few early pictures, but the low light just makes getting good focus really a challenge! And the "evening" shots, like the one above, either look glaringly bright or still a bit gloomy. So I will be trying to get better shots in the coming week, but meanwhile I will show you the best I could do today since the bush was only completed last night! For now, we can pretend it is early in the morning .....

And perhaps you stepped outside onto the porch.... 

and realized suddenly that spring has truly arrived...

 

The lilac is covered in blooms and the scent is just heavenly!

 

It is hard to imagine that just such a short time ago, 

the stems and branches were all so bare!

Now they are covered in a froth of bloom...

What can I say....!

I am So in love with this Lilac Bush!

The early morning does not disappoint....!

 

And perhaps there is a little room in our hearts

 for the artificial evening light too...!

 

 

But I can promise you one thing, Dear Readers,

 You have not see the last of this Blooming lilac shrub!

Oh Me Oh My Oh May....  

I just Love this lilac!

(Can you Believe I finished it...?!)