This Perfectly Imperfect Life

Belated happy Sunday ☺️  These pretties came home with me from the supermarket this morning 😊 It's been raining, raining, raining (and raining some more) since yesterday afternoon and I thought we just might be done but another flash flood warning came through on my phone and it's already clouding back over so there goes that idea! ☔️🌧💦 The air is so thick and soupy, really awful, even hard to breathe in! 😝 It's also flaring my RA something awful! 😝 I'm in the middle of laundry and straitening up the place (before I crash 😴) after breakfast with Big (Hubbs) & errands for mom (and other such related stresses). Find joy in your day no matter the weather 😘  #happySunday #Sunday #Sundayblessings #zinnias #zinnia #frontporchview #summer #summergarden #summertime #july #julygarden #mygarden #inmygardentoday #apartmentgarden #containergarden #gardenwalk #rainyday #andnowrelax #spoonie #spoonielife #spoonieproblems #livingwithrheum #simplepleasuresgreatestjoy #thispe...

Today I'm sharing with you The Gilly Salt Sisters by Tiffany Baker, my fifth 5 star read of the year! Genre: Fiction Synopsis from the publisher, Grand Central Publishing, first trade edition paperback March 2013: "In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be. Jo, a fierce and quiet loner, is devoted to the mysteries of her family's salt farm, while Claire is popular, pretty, and yearns to flee the salt at any cost. But the Gilly land hides a dark legacy that proves impossible to escape. Although the community half-suspects the Gilly sisters might be witches, it doesn't stop Whit Turner, the town's wealthiest bachelor, from forcing his way into their lives. It's Jo who first steals Whit's heart, but it is Claire-heartbroken over her high school sweetheart-who marries him.  Years later, estranged from her family, Claire finds herself thrust back onto the farm with the last person she would have chosen...

The Gilly Salt Sisters - Review coming soon! What's everyone #reading on this #summer #Sunday?  Any recommendations for coastal lit with a great sense of place?  #bookrec  #bookworm #booknerd #bookstagram #bookphotography #summerreads #summerreading #julyreads #booksofsummer #readinglife #frommyshelf #thisperfectlyimperfectlife 

Good morning and happy Sunday! #Sundayblessings #Sunday #morning #hostas #hosta #gardenwalk #summergarden #julygarden #thisperfectlyimperfectlife

Today I'm sharing with you Last Ride to Graceland by Kim Wright , one of the SheReads.org   Books of Summer , and my fourth 5 star read of the year. Genre : Fiction (Southern lit) Synopsis from the publisher, Gallery Books, first trade paperback edition May 2016 : "In Kim Wright's delightful novel, blues musician Cory Ainsworth is barely scraping by after her mother's death when she discovers a priceless piece of rock 'n' roll memorabilia hidden away in a shed out back of the family's South Carolina home: Elvis Presley's Stutz Blackhawk, its interior a time capsule of the singer's last day on earth. A backup singer for the King, Cory's mother, Honey, was at Graceland the day Elvis died. She returned home pregnant to South Carolina and married her high school sweetheart. Yearning to uncover the secret's of her mother's past - and possibly her own identity - Cory decides to drive the car back to Memphis and turn it over to Elvi...

Front porch. As the sun set last night, I found myself among my plants again, where I usually turn when I'm at a loss, or need comfort, and I couldn't help but wonder if there will ever be a day or week without a horrifying tragedy now in our world? Last week Dallas (US) while we were away for a couple of days, last night, Nice (France). It's bad enough when our personal worlds are in a state of upheaval. Deeply sad, and afraid for the world. Again. Still. I've always believed love trumps hate. I'm not sure what's happening anymore in the world at large 💔 #upheavalintorevival #morelovelesshate