Just Sleeping...

No, ducky is not dead, but just sleeping.

Fell to sleep, then fell straight back...

It's hard work breaking out of that egg!

Go see the hatching here!

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xoabb

Sunday Serenity

A most blessed Easter

Filled with family and friends

Is my wish for you!

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Stormy skies abound -
Funnel clouds are everywhere!
For us? A rainbow!


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xoabb

Earth Day (w/a Side of Skywatch)

MO: 4/20/11

"There is always music

Amongst the trees in the garden,

But our hearts must be very quiet to hear it."

~Minnie Aumonier

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xoabb

SWF, Earth Day

do join us for one, & hopefully both!

Jalopy

This old car has obviously been a part of the landscape around my parents home for many years longer than they've lived here. So tell me why I've never been aware enough of it to take even one photo of it over the 25+ years they've lived here?? Observant, aren't I?

Just beyond this ~beauty~ is a junk yard of old that is loaded with all kinds of glass which our family has rooted around in for all the years our folks have lived here.

And I've never noticed that old jalopy? Really? Just put me out to pasture.

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xoabb

Update: That old car is a '46 Chevy Fleetline. Friend Kacey figured it out.

Thank you!

Go here to see a Fleetline in all its glory.

Missourahhh Mosaic

Having troubles with this mosaic thingy. To see better images, click once, and then once again, on the photos and they'll be clear, and, I hope, pleasing for you to look at. Sorry 'bout this! My first attempt and it didn't go like I wanted it to. :(

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xoabb
expect good MO things
(even tho a bit blurry)

BIG thanks to both Kate & Mary whose tutorials taught me about this mosaic photo thingy!

Sunday Serenity

The folk's gorgeous Missouri lilacs w/friend
4/17/11

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xoabb
I'm baaack
in my beloved MO!

Daffodils

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xoabb

Daffodils! Raccoons! Grapefruit!

When Spring seems to be forever in the wings

The daffodils act like they'll never bloom

And then, suddenly, they do!

"You lookin' at me??"

Racoon on the down spout

Just thrilled to

Have her photo taken

When citrus is shipped on December 16, 2010

And delivered April 5, 2o11

The quality of the fruit

Decidedly suffers

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And how is your week going?

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xoabb

expecting asparagus and morels!

and soon!

Ah well...

Not all is lost:

Beautiful Missouri 2011 Spring Daffodils
Courtesy of my mother, Mary Bum.
Not only the photo, but the poem,
(one of my favorites) too,
thus, this post! Thanks mom!
~

The Daffodils

I wandr'd lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:—
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company!
I gazed, and gazed, but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
~

William Wordsworth

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If I can't have my Connecticut daffodils, I'll just have to swoon over the daffs that are once again gracing the front of my parents Missourahhhh home. (Spring-time in Missouri is just beautiful...usually...unless there's a killing April freeze - and that's happened more than once!)

Our daffodils began to bloom, then it became overcast and a cold-front moved through. Must say other folks daffodils are blooming in gardens around us. I don't know what's wrong with mine! :(

Enjoy the above MO view, and if I ever have a CT view, I'll share it!

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xoabb

Sunday Serenity?

For cryin' out loud!
My jonquils don't want to bloom..
Please let warm temps come!

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xoabb
looking for spring!