Our house is built into a hillside and is passive solar, so the winter sun heats the studio beautifully. (The walls are 12 inches thick!)

In the summer, the hollyhocks  grow up in front of the studio windows, and shade the studio from the intense heat. Although, we do have a pergola thingie that blocks most of the intense sunshine.

VERY neat!

Last week, the hollyhocks hadn’t quite covered the windows:

By next week the hollyhocks will be up to the second story of the house!

The flowers are starting to open, which the hummingbirds think is just divine!

Soon, they’ll be ablaze with huge, glorious blossoms!

And, all my houseplants are in bloom right now, so I am feeling quite bloomieblessed!

This is such a neat house that it’ll be hard to find something as magical when we move next year….

ack… moving…. ack….

I’ll take hollyhock seeds with me…..

Image source: Noreen Crone-Findlay 

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The Lifestyles channel at b5 is having a mini carnival with as many of us as possible showing where we blog.

So, here’s where I blog:

Note the omnipresent cuppa tea….

I never blog alone.

We have a very  literary cat. (contrary, too).

Usually, she is draped around my shoulders:

and her sibs are usually right by:

I have several workstations in my studio, but most of them are too messy to photograph without acute embarrassment, so I’ll just show you the desk where I do a lot of my design work:

So, there’s a peek into my studio…. and where I blog….

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