I’ve been cleaning and chopping and cooking and freezing and washing all day long and I am exhausted.
I’m so tired I can’t even come up with a decent caption for this lovely picture of dandelion seeds preparing for flight, like a dream upon the wind.
Here’s hoping tomorrow is more restful.
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I find the prettiest little scenes in my yard. Last year it was a couple of tree roots sticking up out of the ground, and this year it’s a stick and a flower:
There is beauty everywhere, even under a half-dead pine tree, if only we take the time to look.
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Happy Mother’s Day, everybody! Spoil the moms in your life with flowers and kitties!
Hope you have a great day filled with family and fun! 🙂
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It’s particularly dreary outside today; the morning started off with freezing mist and a stiff wind, and it’s not expected to get any better as the day wears on. With that in mind, I’ve got a spot of sunshine to share:
My coworker received these lovely tulips last week, and they’ve really brightened up the office. There were some purplish ones, too, that are also very pretty. 🙂
How do you cheer yourself up in the middle of winter’s drear?
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Winter, in all its monochrome glory, is now firmly entrenched in my backyard. Since my current view is something like the image to the left, I find myself longing for a bit of color.
What? There’s color in that there picture? Well of course there is! It’s just that it’s the color cast upon an ocean of snow by a setting sun, and it’s mostly blue. And white. And some sort of odd mixture of the two. It’s monochrome. And while it’s beautiful in its own way, it’s also boring.
I want color! Color that pops off the page, or better yet, color that pops out of the dreary winter landscape. I want color that makes my eyes sing and my heart soar, color that is so deep and rich and vibrant that it’s practically alive.
I’ve been trying to organize the scads of pictures that live on my computer and in so doing, I ran across these pretty, pretty pictures that I took last summer:
The flowers Seymour bought me last week have been steadily wilting, so I’ve been trying to capture their glory for posterity.
This was my favorite flower of the bunch. 🙂
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One of the things I love about fall is the profusion of color. From fiery reds to golden oranges, color abounds.
I found these late blooms among the changing leaves at the courthouse today as I ran errands at work. I loved these flowers in the spring, when their golden yellow blooms were like little spots of sunshine on a cloudy day, and I couldn’t help thinking of them the same way today. As beautiful as they are in the spring, when they pop against the deep green of their leaves, they were just as beautiful today against the backdrop of green and gold.
What’s your favorite part of fall?
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Yesterday was rather a rough day. It started early, ended late, and grew steadily worse as the day wore on. But at least I have some pretty flowers to show for it:
Today has been so much better, despite getting off to a rough start. Hope your Saturday has been filled with fun! 🙂
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I rarely go anywhere without a camera these days, whether it’s my phone or my lovely Nikon D3200. I’ve had a passion for photography ever since I was thirteen, when my grandparents gave me my very first camera for Christmas. My grandpa always had his camera with him; so did my mom, and my aunt, and their cousin and her mother…Well, you get the idea. Shutterbug-ism runs in my family. I may not be able to draw to save my soul, but I’m not too shabby with a camera, if I do say so myself.
Suddenly they all died. The end. 