Shall We Dance…

I’m in the mood for love…  garden love that is.  I wondered as I wandered with my camera yesterday what is it that makes the strings of my heart go zing every time I go outside. 

It’s almost like soul food.

It doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s one impressive big flower…

Or a mass of flowers.. I just gotta have me some Flower Power.

Even plants with no blossoms…

Or lots of blossoms. It doesn’t seem to matter.  The fascination is there.

Climbing plants…

mixed with flowers that need to have there feet in the dirt and grow to their individual glory, or masses of morning glories. 

These make my mornings. And good mornings help my day.

These are my ‘crepes’… better than the cooked ones.

Feed my soul.  The rest will take care of  itself.

Let’s Look At Pretty Things…

For a change.  I’m tired of whacked knee pictures. I would much rather look at pretty pictures of anything rather than old bunged up knees.

I took a bit of a walk around last night because I was getting cabin fever.  So I grabbed up the camera and gimped out the door.

 A baby gourd.

It’s bigger sibling. This is so exciting. We have tried to grow gourds before and for some reason have had no luck.  Carol started this gourd plant from seed and then put the plant in one of her barrels. Might have something to do with good soil, do you think?

A bright canna caught my eye and when I walked over closer…

I found this… the birth of a canna bloom.  I really liked how the sun, coming from behind the plant, looked trying to almost come through the leaves.

Our pink hibiscus. Like me, a late bloomer.

A butterfly visiting the zinnias.

Some more zinnias.

Blanket flowers. I love these flowers.  The new buds, the flowers and the seed heads are all interesting.  I’m hoping this plant triples for next year. 

Too much fun.  Can you imagine what I could do if I had a camera that I could take macro shots of some of this stuff?  I’ll have to start planning for that goal.

And I caught this downy through the front window last week. Working on the sunflower seedhead. 

Sunflowers… the flowers that keep on giving.

 

How wonderful is this world we live in… Keeps me going, for sure.

It Was Supposed To Storm...

About a week ago, when I was having on of my 'lousy' days...

I heard thunder.

"Dang!", I told myself "you've got to get up on the roof and fix that hole that you saw when you were taking the tin off the roof of the back deck."

So I pried myself off the couch, got the repair stuff I'd gotten the day before and got my brother to help me get the ladder up so's I could get on the roof.

I went up, walked over to the place that looked like it was torn up and it was a second vent pipe. As I stood there looking at it thinking "you dummy"... there was a crack of lightning and a roll of thunder. God said "Hi, you dummy. Now get off this roof."

The first photo is what I saw when I looked up (and, yes, I do take a camera with me sometimes on the roof) above and to the northwest. You know, I decided that that would be a pretty good idea to take that advice and get off the roof.


This second photo was looking to the north of our place. Kinda had the look and feel of a bit of a wall cloud rolling to the east. While it is uncommon to have tornadoes in November, it is not unheard of by any stretch of the imagination.

They had talked about that possibility the night before on the weather and I had just kind of ignored it. After all, I was born and raised in Oklahoma and it's something you try to be aware of, but you don't really plan on.

So I'm thinking, as I'm getting down... I might ought to check the weather channel.

I decided to look to the east just to see what was happening out that way, and when I did I was so glad I had my camera. One of the more beautiful sky shots I've seen in a while. This is straight out of the camera.


It is so good to be alive and to get to see beauty like this.


Life is good.




Even on a not so good day.