Flower Friday : : With a Twist...

...Not the one Biker Bear requested (Mad March hare) but it IS mad....The whole gnome thing started years ago as a joke after we saw the movie "Amalie" and traveled to the Southwestern United States with Lady Findhorn and His Lordship with a howling coyote, which appeared in every picture we took. Here is a picture of the coyote and the backstory of how he wound up with us.I know, it makes no sense, you have to see the movie, but we had a great time wound up with a garden gnome as a further reminder of our travels together.

The gnomes  began to multiply as friends and family, struck with how unlike it was for us to have a gnome in our garden, brought more of them. They created their own little village in the narrow strip of garden between our house  and the one next door.

We definitely weren't going to bring them with us when we moved, but found that we couldn't leave them behind, so they came with us and we told the grandkids they were in charge of placing them around our much bigger garden.Here's the story of how that happened.

One year, a garden gnome appeared, rather mysteriously in the mail with no indication of where it came from. Son Tim eventually confessed to sending it to me for my birthday.

The one he really should have sent anonymously, was the one he brought last year which I came across amongst the blooming euphorbias today. It certainly suits his mad sense of humor and I suspect it may be have his final statement on the whole wacky gnome project.

Little does he know that the garden gnomes may have taken on a life of their own....