On this beautiful sunny summer morning in Seattle, I paid a quick visit to the Market for some breakfast and some inspiration.

Breakfast was an iced latte and a chocolate croissant, topped off by a local fresh peach that literally weighed 2 pounds. You think I am kidding, but I’m not.  The peach was the size of a softball.  More about the local peaches in another post.

Today it was the sweet peas that captured my attention.  I have tried unsuccessfully to grow these simple flowers for years.  I always planted them from seed in my Denver garden and after many unsuccessful attempts over several growing seasons (read=years), I accepted that sweet peas don’t like high, dry climates.  Fine.  I can deal with that.

So this past winter I was walking through a local nursery, dreaming about growing season and I saw packages of sweet pea pods.  I bought some and have been watching them grow in containers in my outdoor garden here.

As of today, I have about 6 feet of vines on the two sweet pea plants that sprouted and grew for me.  I have yet to see a blossom on one of these two plants.  I will say I like the rambling green viney stems with their tendrils quite a lot, but really, one blossom would not hurt!

But then I walked into the market and was bombarded by sweet pea scent.  I knew I had found treasure.  I snooped through all of the flower stalls and found lots and lots of sweet peas in buckets, in bouquets, and in bunches.  I took lots of pictures and bought some to bring home.

Here are these little lovelies in my living room, a shot taken just a few minutes ago.  I have found Love as seen in pink, coral, lavender, white and purple!

Happy Weekend!