Sunday Serenity

Peace...

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xoabb

P. S. I helped Miss LaLa (aka MPMama) arrange the flowers yesterday at her church. 

I took the above photo of one of our arrangements.  

You can see our other arrangement here.

We done good, Mama!

Such a Naughty Petunia Baby

"Children...are like flowers in an arrangement...there's

always one determined to face in an opposite
direction from the way the arranger desires."
~Madelein Cox

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xoabb

Sky Watch Friday

Two Converging Storm Fronts...

It's been a very exciting day here in the northeast...

Can you believe we were under a tornado warning???

For three hours!!  It just doesn't get any better than that!!!

I've lived here 31 years and this was the first time!

Yup, I just loves me a good old tornado warning! 

Hey!  I'm from the midwest.

You know, tornado alley????

Duhhhh...

(Two storm fronts converging)

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xoabb

P. S.  SWF is nurtured at this site.  

Join us if you'd like, or just go there enjoy a bunch of wonderful photos!

Good Food

Our Farmer's Market is loaded with good things

that are ready to be bought and eaten!
We support it every way we can.
It's good, local food - locavores - that's what we're striving to be!

And now a question:

From what source do you get your sustenance?

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xoabb

Caterpillars!

Caterpillars now,

Black Swallowtail Butterfly

Beauties soon to be

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xoabb

Shameless family exploitation once again.

Above is my bro's photo.

P. S.  My bro replied:
"One of the resulting butterflies is here. And another -- this one went to chrysalis form in the fall. We figured it was dead. Roger insisted it wasn't and kept it in his room. One March morning, he awoke to a butterfly crawling on his bed!" There's one more photo here.
Do click on the highlighted links - his photos are wonderful!

Just One Squash...Priceless!

This is the one and only fruit of our laborious labor. As you can see, there's many blossoms, but the fruit of those blooms? Not so much. I just read an article in our paper about farmer's markets and it reported that unless a stand sells at least $1500 worth of produce for the day, it isn't worth their time, let alone their effort to participate. 

Anyone want to buy a $1500 squash*? 

At least the foliage is big and beautiful...

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xoabb

*P. S. Had the squash for dinner tonight and it was delicious!  

Worth every one of those $15oo's worth of penny's!

A Forgotten Phone

Last week I took Gus to the airport to catch his flight home as GB (above atop Glassy Mountain in South Carolina enjoying the incredible view along with a stogie) had a meeting and couldn't.  Because I have an issue with my left front tire (it's bald - I don't know how that happened, and I also don't want to talk about it.), I took GB's car to LGA instead of mine to drop Gus off. On the return trip, I dropped by GB's office to exchange cars. Got home and promptly realized I'd left my phone in GB's car. Called him and asked him to step out the office door and push the remote to unlock his car so I could retrieve my phone. Of course, as is par for the course (at least my course), I got sidetracked and didn't leave to get it as soon as I thought. I finally got there, tried the car door and it was locked. Minor irritation set in. Went up the steps to the office and in to find GB. 

GB:  "Where have you been? I thought you were coming right away!"

Me:  "I was, but got sidetracked. And the car's  still locked - why didn't you unlock it?" 

GB:  "I did! I punched the button a bunch of times." 

Me:  "Well, it didn't work, the car's locked." 

GB: "Whatever, I called you several times and you didn't pick up! What's the use of a cell phone if you don't answer it???"

Me: "Uh GB...I'm here to get my phone out of your car. How could I possibly answer it if it's in your car, for God's sake???" (At this point I'm pretty sure a big old eye-roll was done by moi.) 

GB:  "Oh, well, um, yeah. You have a point there." 

Me:  "___________________!" (At this point I know a big old eye-roll was done by moi...plus a bit of muttered swearing.)

(This one's for Daryl in honor of her just fabulous ~husbandisms~.) 

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xoabb

Sunday Serenity

Come sit for a while

Savor the peace around you

Here, serenity.

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xoabb

Glassy Mountain in South Carolina

My Perfect Breakfast...

There must be a bit of the British in me...somewhere...

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xoabb

~God Bless the Queen~

Sky Watch Friday...Uh Ohh...

From all directions...

...storm's a comin'!

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xoabb

Sky Watch Friday - do join us!