Pretty flowers!

Every year I look forward to the beautiful flowers to start appearing in my yard. My favorite is by far the peonies. I love peonies not only for their vibrant colors and sweet aroma but they remind me of the ones in my wedding bouquet. Peonies were my flower of choice for my bouquet but if I remember right they were quite expensive so we decided against them. However, my mom did not give up on my desire and discovered some growing in a yard across town and bravely asked if we could cut some to have in my wedding (we did sort of know the people). The morning of the wedding my mom went across town and hand picked them and added them to my bouquet... needless to say they are very special to me. So imagine my delight when I discovered two big flower beds full of peonies in our yard when we moved to our house!
Here is my first bouquet of the year (the daisies are left over from the flowers Derrick gave to me for our anniversary); thought I'd share the beauty.