Exceedingly Mundane

Here’s a couple of things that make me happy today… my purple verbena and purple irises are starting to bloom in the back yard! I’m not in a big hurry for spring and summer to arrive, but I do love it when all of my perennial flowers start coming back out and growing and blooming. Makes me happy 🙂

My verbena is just starting to bloom, within the last few days or week:

And I just saw the first bloom on my Louisiana irises open yesterday (it was a lot warmer yesterday and I was outside some before it rained, and spied this bloom):