Day Two Hundred Ninety Nine 2013

I was thinking how out of place these blue and purple and pink hydrangea blooms looked in late October, the month of orange and red and yellow. I couldn’t believe they were still blooming at all. I wish I had cut the blooms and brought them into the house to enjoy.

Because this is what they looked like the next day after our first hard freeze of the season. How sad is that? I guess the only great thing about a hard freeze is that all the mosquitoes are officially dead and gone. Until next year, hydrangeas. [And skeeters]

Day Two Hundred Twenty Two 2013

This and That

Neil mowed the grass for the first time in I don’t know when today. He had to mow it high, then mowed it a second time to get it as short as possible before the next monsoon. It was slow going and took him forever. We have a mulching mower, but he gave up on that and finally just let it fly. Looks like a hay field right now. That robin probably thinks so, too.

We enjoyed another clear day. Hot and humid. Feels like August.

The blooms on my hydrangea bushes go from full color to faded, depending on how much sun we’ve had. These beautiful blooms are on one stalk~the only full color flowers on one of my bushes. So I cut it and brought it inside to enjoy.

It’s amazing what a dramatic effect lighting has in a photograph. Same flowers, different lighting.

Daughter Holly brought these to me a couple of weeks ago from her yard, and I’ve enjoyed them so much. But they’ve seen better days. I think they’re still kind of pretty even dried up. Neil wants to plant the seeds and see if we can grow some in our yard. I wouldn’t mind that at all.

Day One Hundred Sixty Six 2013

EVER LOVIN’ SATURDAY!

My Hydrangea bushes are full of beautiful blooms. They are one of my favorite summertime things. I read in a magazine about this photographer who uses things like screens, cheesecloth, and pantyhose over her lens as filters to get different effects, which intrigued me, so I gave it a shot. I stretched one of my knee high hose over my lens and this is the results. I think it’s pretty cool.

Grandson Knox and his momma Kelly are here to visit. He loves eating Mulberries right off the tree.

“Mmmmmm!”

It was a gorgeous evening to visit Dogwood Park and run around in the fountain.

Grandson Elijah, his momma Holly and sister Shelby joined us and had fun chasing each other through the water spouts.

The water is cold, but the kids didn’t seem to mind.

Peeps in Dogwood Park: grandson Knox, daughter Holly, grandson Elijah, hubby Neil, granddaughter Shelby, and daughter Kelly. And then home again to eat Krispy Kremes! [Thanks, Kelly!] Happy Saturday, everyone!

Day Three Hundred Two 2012

Autumn Postcards From My House









Do you see the bird?



"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."  ~ George Eliot

Day One Hundred Sixty Seven 2012

We really need to quit hiding these camouflage Easter eggs. Spotted this one this evening as we were checking on the Hydrangeas to see if they need water. Inside the egg: fun size Skittles! What a waste. Happy TGIF, everyone!

Day Sixty Nine 2012

Is it live or is it Memorex? They do look real, don't they? In my quest to find a replacement for my little stackable lazy susan that I keep my spices on (mine is caving in after all these years), I ended up at Big Lots today, thinking surely I'd find one there. Unfortunately, no such luck. Instead, I found these very lovely and oh so fake hydrangeas. Even though the spice caddy would probably have been more useful, I figure my house needed a little springtime eye candy. 

Day Two Hundred Ninety One 2011

"October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure
is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thing loves to
die in bright colors."
- Henry Ward Beecher

Day One Hundred Sixty Three 2011

This is what you get when you try to take a picture of a hydrangea bush in no light with no tripod and a slow shutter speed. My blurry pic looks kind of impressionistic (is that a word?). After Neil cut down the tree it had been trying to grow under, it finally got some sunlight and is growing up and blooming like crazy. Maybe I'll take another picture of it sometime. In the daylight.

Day One Hundred Twenty Nine 2011

Daughter Kelly gave this Hydrangea to me for Mother's Day. It's a beauty and is going to look great out in the back yard.

Day One Hundred Twenty Four 2011

Random picture postcards from Kay's camera. Happy Wednesday! May The Fourth Be With You!

Day Two Hundred Eleven 2010

Thank Goodness It's Friday!

Having some fun with my cell phone camera set on the Solaris color setting

Day One Hundred Seventy Eight 2010

Summer Sunday Afternoon

Red, ripe, juicy, sweet, seedless. What more can I say. Watermelon at Bistro Ranft was to die for.

"Look," says Neil, "a 45 degree triangle." He then proceeds to explain to me how those differ from an isosceles triangle. He can be so romantic.

Summer sky.

Hydrangea is one of my favorite flowers.

We have several that never bloomed until this year. I hear it's because of the rainy Spring.

Buddy Cat stopped by to sprawl out and watch me take pictures of hydrangeas. He likes to be where the people are. He's my good buddy (when he's not bugging me for food). Another new week. Have a good one, y'all!