Gift #18 - Magnolia Blossom

The weather has been perfect these past few days and I have had several opportunities to sit outside in our back yard with Dan. We ate outside by candlelight one evening, which was lovely. No mosquito problems, to my surprise! The new Patio Egg (a ceramic egg shaped container which diffuses a natural mosquito repellant oil into the air) which I bought at the local Garden Center and the Mosquito Dunks I put in the pond and rain barrel seem to be working!
I discovered a few delightfully fragranced blossoms on this Magnolia tree, which I hadn't noticed flowering last year at all.