Mmm, raspberries… 😀
I can’t wait for these to be ripe so I can eat them all. 🙂
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Tag: Outdoors
Photo 365 #290
So yesterday was busy. Like, crazy busy. I didn’t get done anything I wanted to in terms of writing, but I did get my latest rhubarb harvest out of my fridge, so there’s that. I made two huge pots of rhubarb sauce, which I now have to get out of my fridge and into some freezer bags, and I started putting together a strawberry rhubarb pie, but stopped short of getting the pie assembled and baked. I thought perhaps I’d do that today, since it was meant for tonight, but between a wicked headache and supper plans going awry, it hasn’t happened.
At least, not yet.
I haven’t accomplished anything at all today except…
Photo 365 #289
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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Photo 365 #287
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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Photo 365 #285
White coral bells, upon a slender stalk…
Despite the forecast, it’s a lovely day outside. After running some errands this noon, the boys and I came back home and spent some time in the yard playing. They played with each other, and I played with my camera. 🙂
We’ve got some beautiful lily of the valley coming up along the north side of our house and as I stretched out in the grass to capture it, Shadow and Opal stopped by to keep me company. Turns out Shadow just wanted to laze about on my lap in the sun. If I hadn’t had other things to do (and others to keep track of), that would have been a lovely way to spend the afternoon.
Cricket finally tired of the wind and decided he was ready to go back inside. “Do you have just one more picture to take, Mom?” he asked me. I assured him that I only had just one more, but after about ten just-one-mores, there was no more putting off the inevitable and we all headed inside.
Except Buddy. Despite the puppy-dog eyes, he stayed parked outside in the shade. 😉
Do your cats demand your attention while you’re trying to work? How do you handle it?
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Photo 365 #284
Prior to this spring, I don’t think I’d ever seen a baby pine cone before. Imagine my surprise, then, to see what looked like bright red berries on the pine trees outside my bedroom window.
I found this on the ground a few days later. With all the wind we’ve had lately, they’re all over the place now, but this first one intrigued me to no end.
Ain’t nature grand? 🙂
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Photo 365 #281
It was a beautiful spring day today! Mother Nature surprised us. It was supposed to be warm and rainy, but instead it was warm, sunny, and humid. I’ll take warm and sunny any day, though if I had to judge by today, I’d say it’s gonna be a long, hot summer.
Still, you can’t beat a day like this. 🙂
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The Photo Friday throwback continues!
Today’s photo features me as a teenager. Well, I’m in there somewhere – see that little speck of purple? That’d be me. 🙂
Way back when, my friends and I had lots of fun shooting roll after roll of film on my little point-and-shoot camera. I have so many great photos from my teen years! What I love about this one is the color – just look at all those greens!
Don’t forget to stop by Charnele’s blog and see what she’s got for today.
What did you enjoy doing with your friends in your younger years?
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Photo 365 #274
In the process of picking up the yard Saturday, I also pruned my rhubarb patch. It was starting to go to seed, so I pulled the seed pods out and tossed them in a pile, but the thing about pulling seed pods is that they often pull up a stalk or two of rhubarb along with them.
I figured as long as I was inadvertently pulling rhubarb, I may as well pick some intentionally, too.
I picked all of this rhubarb Saturday afternoon, and there’s lots more where that came from!
Photo 365 #273
We spent a lot of time outside Sunday afternoon, and it was really quite fun. Bubbles helped Seymour with the sandbox, Cricket played with his tricycle, Thumper picked flowers, and Miss Tadpole wandered around. She climbed trees, chatted with the guys, and followed the boys around.
At one point, she helped Thumper pick flowers. He already had quite a few, but by the time the two of them were finished, they had quite a bouquet. 🙂
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 