When I started featuring the Pantone Spring 2017 colors, it was still January. It can be a little depressing thinking about spring that time of year. But now that it’s almost April, it’s a little more exciting. Right? I know, sometimes the weather is even worse this time of year, but we’re that much closer to nice weather.
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Last week, I made a quick trip down to Illinois for the annual orchid show, Orchids in Vogue, at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Somehow I had never been to the botanic garden before? If I had, it was many many years ago. The grounds are impressive. Spanning 385 acres on and around nine islands, the Chicago Botanic Garden has 27 gardens and four natural areas with six miles of lake shoreline.
Not surprisingly, in late March, there isn’t much blooming…yet. It’s right at that point where plants are just starting to poke their way out of the ground. You know that in another couple of months, the entire place is going to look completely different. I’m hoping to make another trip down there to see it in its full glory in the summer. But for this trip, I mostly stuck to the orchids exhibit, which was entirely indoors.
The orchid show was fabulous. They packed so much into a few greenhouses, with so many different plant species and vibrant colors everywhere you looked.
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Cheesy bacon baked potato soup is comfort food at its best.
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Once again, I’m on the ball with my holiday decorations! We still have just over three weeks until Easter, and I’ve already decorated my entryway. You have way more than enough time to put up a few simple decorations for the upcoming holiday. I’m sharing my Easter decor and then a few other DIY easy Easter decor ideas.
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I’m so excited to kick off this Thursday with a little early spring inspiration. I have a spring photography board going strong on Pinterest. It’s filled with lovely images that don’t closely resemble what it actually looks like outside yet. We’re buried in snow from this latest storm, so I had to find a few pictures with snow and frost for this early spring inspiration post…because that’s what early spring often really looks like in the Midwest.
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