Talented Time Travelers in Focus #29

Now it's time to take a peek at some of the talent linked to last week's party.

If you like mixed media art, you'll love the terrific pieces created by Cindy @ Cindy Adkins' Whimsical Musings.

She even has an Etsy shop where you can purchase her lovely designs.

Sorry, but this one is taken. 

It was created specifically for a very special friend of Cindy's. 

Sherry @ Splendiferous Girls Club used some of her favorite scrapbook paper and Mod Podge to create this one-of-a-kind design for her memo board.

The lovely artwork is courtesy of her daughter.  ; )

She, also, has an Etsy shop, where she sells other unique items she creates.

I love the simplicity of farmhouse style.

Susan @ Ash Tree Cottage put together this sweet, cottage chic vignette with a few of her favorite flea-market finds.

Great job all you Time Travelers!

Now let's see what you've been up to this week.

Time Travel Thursday #30 - Longing For Days Gone By

Welcome to the 30th Time Travel Thursday linky party at the Brambleberry Cottage.

Are you ready for our next trip back in time and into the future?

Great!  Climb aboard.

Of the four seasons of the year, winter is my least favorite.

Besides the fact that I thoroughly dislike the cold temperatures, I find the bleak, barren landscape somewhat gloomy.

Everything just seems so...lifeless.

Perhaps that's one of the reasons I love to see it snow around here.

I know the surroundings will come alive with a thorough dusting of the powdery white stuff.

By this time each year, I find myself longing for the days—yet to come—when the pines...

and the daffodils begin to herald the call that brighter, warmer days are just ahead.

Though in reality it was only months ago, it seems an eternity since the vibrant colors of my summer blooms filled this place with energy and life.

I miss the proud display of the vivid pinks on my crape mrytles...

the sweet bubblegum pinks of the impatiens...

and the soft wispy pinks of the ornamental pom-poms on the mimosa trees.

How I long to sit in my front porch rocker and take in the heavenly scent of the gardenias...

and admire—once again—the abundance of Queen Anne's lace growing freely in the fields around the barns.

Their lacy heads remind me of the delicate snowflakes that make winter somewhat tolerable for me.

But, by far, the real showstoppers around my cottage and barns in the summertime are the gorgeous daylilies...

and the richly colored clematis.

So until I catch a glimpse of those first signs of life returning to these parts, I guess I'll have to be content with looking at these pretty remembrances of days gone by.

Sharing my pretty "past" summer blooms at Susan's for Outdoor Wednesday, for Cottage Flora Thursday's @ Fistail Cottage, Tootsie's for Flaunt Your Flowers, Fertilizer Friday, Cindy's for Show and Tell Friday, Ann Marie's for Foto Friday, Beverly's for Pink Saturday, and The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sundays.