Blue Macro Monday, March 3, 2014

Welcome to my Monday post, today I am linking with-

Blue Monday hosted by Smiling Sally

Macro Monday 2 hosted by Gemma Wiseman

I Heart Macro hosted by Laura

Monday Mellow Yellows hosted by Gemma Wiseman

Here are some flowers from the Celebration for the life of my Swedish mother-in-law, who passed into eternity last month.  She was blessed with 102 years and 4 months of life, and touched many people's lives.

Here is her most recent great-grandkid, born in that same month, to carry on her heritage-

Outdoors, my Hellebores are blooming valiantly in the cold, my older ones that self-sow and have speckled but down-facing flowers in a range of shades of magenta-

Then there are my fancy Hellebores I bought last year, outward facing flowers, shorter denser foliage with some silver marbling, that didn't preform very well their first year, in fact Pink Frost is the only one blooming, though Ivory Prince and Pink Beauty are alive and have buds-

Unfortunately Pink and White Marble didn't make it, as well as Winter Moonbeam.

Other new ones with taller green leaves like the older varieties made a nice showing for their first blooming a year after planting, here.   I noticed a few Pulmonaria starting to bloom.

I hope spring will come quickly for all those suffering through record low temperatures and snowfall.

Hannah

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