Cherry Rose sunflowers (my favourites). 🌻

A few of this summer's flowers in my garden... 🌸

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The last peony for the year. This one has been passed along through my husband's family, and I hope we'll eventually be able to divide and share it, too.

I'd never seen a waxwing in our garden before, but they've been back and forth all day today. This is the first year that the sour cherry tree has produced more than a handful of fruit. 🍒

These were rescued from the rain yesterday. The palest pink one is my favourite type we've planted. 🌸

Some more of this week's peonies (before the rain got to them). 🌸

The next peonies to open. My husband bought these ones at a farmers' market when we were first starting the garden, and they took a long time to get established. I'm so pleased to finally see a lot of buds on them this year.

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The first peony bloom of the year (and the very first for this plant) and it is extremely pink! It was supposed to be a pale white & pink variety, so this was a surprise. But it looks very nice where it is... probably better than my original plan for that spot in the garden. 🌸

The scrungly little robins that hatched on our porch have all fledged. I hope they do well. 🥺

My favourite tulips (Angelique). I think I should plant more of them for next year... 🌷🌷🌷

More daffodil varieties in my garden (which I meant to post earlier in the season).

A few of the new tulips added to the garden for this year. I chose the parrot tulips in memory of a friend who was fond of that type in particular and always had plenty of good gardening ideas and advice. 🌷💗

"Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes like a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowndilly, small and slender like." ~ LotR IV.v

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Another pretty bunch from the garden. 🤍

Our garden was generous this week. 💛🌷

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A lovely little chickadee who's been singing in our garden for the past few hours. 🥺

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One more snowdrop post before they've finished flowering for the year. These doubles (Hippolyta) are the nearest I could get to having niphredil in the garden. But I wonder which other snowdrop cultivars would be an even closer match to Tolkien's drawing?

Drop some HEADWEAR 👑 Galadriel's crown from the 2006 Lord of the Rings musical (which is still one of my favourite Tolkien adaptations).

"The daffodil shook all her many skirts out proudly in the sunshine. Then she bowed three times until her head fairly touched the ground." ~ Lenore Elizabeth Mulets, "All in a Garden Fair"

Happy Tolkien Reading Day! Drew some of the lovely women of Lord of the Rings for this year’s theme, Fellowship and Community 📚🧝‍♀️✨ #TolkienReadingDay #art

. . . the frail snow-drop, Born of the breath of winter, and on his brow Fixed like a pale and solitary star. ~ Barry Cornwall, "Flowers"

And snowdrops sprang beneath her feet, and one bird, sudden, late and sweet, shrilled as she wayward passed along. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Lay of Leithian"

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OK. Hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake... but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor.

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The first snowdrops have been starting to appear in the warmest parts of the garden. I'm glad to see them. 🌱🤍

My thread for the fandom #TRoPRewatch of s1e4, starting with appreciation for this beautiful architecture. Does anyone know whether there's concept art available of all the frescoes and statues? I wish we could have a closer view of them...

🌳🌼💃🌼🌳 🧵 1/ #TolkienTrewsday Week 106: The Great Tales. For me there is one pivotal moment in Tolkien’s life where landscape, event and Legendarium come together so perfectly they form a powerful nexus point: Edith dancing in a glade near Roos, East Yorkshire, for Tolkien during 1917.

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Beginning tonight's #TRoPRewatch of episode 3 with appreciation for the Green Bough of Return shown on the Númenórean ship. 🥲🌿 (Could it have been Eärien who brought this one?)

This is the first winter at this house when we've had snow on the ground all season, apart from on maybe four particularly warm days. I'm enjoying it while it lasts... ❄️

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I just realised her dress has people climbing the Meneltarma and the three eagles that live there!!! The level of detail omg

Joining the #TRoPRewatch for episode 2 shortly. I've been re-reading Unfinished Tales this week, and this reminded me of episode 1: "Then Erendis looked forth, and she saw a tall white ship, with white birds turning in the sunlight all about it. . ."

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Who's doing the Great Backyard Bird Count this weekend? What are you seeing? Most of our regular visitors have been busy at the feeders this afternoon, ahead of the snow storm. ❄️🐦

We're about to start our #TRoPRewatch, or, as my husband calls it, "The Elven soap opera, the telenovELFa." 💍

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