This weekend, my chickens and I have been enjoying the strong beautiful fragrance of the sweet osmanthus (tea olive) tree which is now taller than me even though I planted it only a few years ago. We have also be enjoying the beautiful color of the beauty berry bush’s fruit.
Most of these berries will be eaten by the songbirds, but a few will sprout and expand their territory just a bit farther out into the shady parts of the yard. You can probably see where an insect has already been eating the beauty berry’s leaves here and there, but that’s just part of life in the garden.
A soft rain overnight gives everything a wet shine, and I think the raindrops hitting the osmanthus blossoms release even more of its sweet indescribably perfume into the garden. At times I can even smell it from inside the house!
I hope you will find your own Sunday Surprises to delight your senses and give your heart a bit of rest.
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The flowering gifts of fall are all that much more precious as the season shades gradually into colder weather. There is also something crystalline about the light in early fall that helps these late offerings to shine out. Lucky are those of us with fall seasons.
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I could almost smell them here! 😉
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For such a tiny little blossom, they put out a huge fragrance! 🙂
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Sounds like a lovely Sunday you and the girls had! 😁
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