Flower faerie-edition

Over the last weeks I enjoyed our garden immensely. There were all sorts of colours from the different flowers that we have here. And I never made a picture, though this year's colours have been marvelous. Now, that it is almost too late for some, I tried to take a few pictures. I am still waiting for much of my lavender to flower, though. There are many blossoms, but it doesn't look yet as if that part of the garden is completely violet, as it should. I would love to take a nice picture with a lavender carpet in it. 

And, since I don't know how to change that with hubby's camera, the pictures seem to use up a lot of disc space. Sorry for that. If anybody is able to explain how to change that to a tech-dummy, I'd love to give it a try.

 Too bad that I only had them in the shade of a tree. I'll try again, though most marguerites have already faded.

 Cranesbill. Somehow we have lots of violet and red in the garden at the moment. Early in spring we had white and yellow and later in summer and autumn we should have different shades of yellow to deep orange.

 We have much lavender but currently the ones which blossom look like single straws :-( I am waiting for more. If you cut them down early after the first blossom you should actually get a second before autumn. But don't cut into the old wooden part of your lavender, because then nothing will grow from it. Instead cut it a little above the old, in the new parts. Your lavender will be far more bushy.

Climbing roses. We have a wall where they grow along an old metal grid. Currently they are in full bloom and there is a lot of of buzzing and humming from bees, bumblebees and other insects.

Jasmine. I don't know how to take a decent picture of it, because the whole bush is covered in white, which does not look impressive at all, when I try to take a pic. Hey, the smell is lovely.

My climbing roses again. I did not tie them together, they are that close.

Poppy is so beautiful, too bad we only have a few in our garden. This is one of them.

The pregnant-section 

 Maybe some of you have guessed it, it is countdown-time: we have reached week 25 :-)

 I think I am allowed to say that hubby and I feel blessed. We can enjoy life to the full, and I think that the changes my body goes through are wonderful ... with a few little exceptions.  You might know what I mean, because I have whined about that in past posts. Nevertheless, I know from friends and family that my current physical problems are pretty small ones compared to what they went through. Oh, and by now I think I have heard most horror stories about labor and delivery, too. I mean, I didn't want to, but who cares. :-\

Last night a friend of mine said that no matter what I do, how much I gain depends on genetic disposition. Why do I think  now that I have a gigantic builder's cleavage in my old gardening skirt? She did not say that I should stop exercising, because this will help me when I finally give birth, but otherwise, if I don't overindulge, I will just gain as much as the genes say. I am not sure if I can believe that. And does it change anything about my eating habits? Nope. But if it is true, it takes away some of my bad conscience, after I have eaten the third cookie. And I'll do my exercises, obediently and only moderately. 

Talking about exercises: if anything, do your kegel exercises!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I  think I should do a post with a handful of easy to do kegel exercises, because this is so important and it becomes even more important if you give birth to more than one child. Since baby has started pushing onto my bladder, I have made first hand experience with what happens when you sneeze. Maybe it won't be much better after giving birth, and this is only one of the problems that you might encounter. Therefore: if anything, do your kegel exercises!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!