What are you going to be doing at 3:00 PM today??? and Mellow Yellow Monday

Please click on this link and see what you could/should be doing:

http://www.shopsmartmag.org/2010/05/today-is-memorial-day.html

Thank you, Veterans.  Peace.  B : )

MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY:

Frangipani (Plumeria) from the garden - these are the flowers they use to make leis - please excuse all the junk in the background - not a very "professional" picture, I know, but pretty nonetheless.  Peace.  B : )

Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Happy Birthday to my amazing husband, Victor!! (Sunday)

COLOR CARNIVAL:

Did I use this before?  Can't remember : )

CAMERA CRITTERS:

SIX WORD SATURDAY:

Thank you Vets; we appreciate you!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:

Gotta love St. Francis for he so loved the animals : )

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:

If you would care to see more of these memes, please click on the appropriate button(s) to the right.  Have a great holiday weekend, and please take at least a minute to recognize and appreciate the reason for the holiday.  Peace.  B : )

Fertilizer Friday and SkyWatch Friday

Friday already, although it must have seemed a long time coming to you folks who are working away to make this world go around properly.  I salute you, and appreciate you....as I do all the veterans of all of the armed forces.  Please take a few minutes to think of them during this long weekend...none came back unchanged.

FERTILIZER FRIDAY:

One small section of our yards that we don't mess with - God did a great job on it and it doesn't need our help -

And here is our very very small sugar snap pea crop - I think there may be three or four edible pods there.  Oh well.  It is still so much fun to watch them grow!

SKYWATCH FRIDAY:

Looks like a Michelin Man monster : ) - right arm stretched out, left arm covered up a bit, big black holes for eyes...

Have a wonderful weekend.  Thank you veterans. Peace.  B : )

Watery Wednesday and ABC Wednesday "S is for .....

WATERY WEDNESDAY:

Lincoln in his little boat, playing with the water, with Grandpop standing by and CiCi watching from the sidelines.

ABC WEDNESDAY - S IS FOR:

SNAILS:

AND SPIDERS AT WORK:

AND SHAFTS OF SUNLIGHT SPOTLIGHTING A LEAF:

AND SALUTATIONS:

is she whispering a secret in his ear or is he just checking on his sister?

AND SILLY DOG SHARING THE SOFA WITH HIS HUMAN SISTER:

Jeffie likes to be the center of attention and sometimes thinks he's a lap dog

Please click on the appropriate button(s) to the right to join in on these memes.  Peace.  B : )

Mellow Yellow Monday AND Ruby Tuesday

These two memes are featured together because these two colors appear quite often together at our house.   First is part of my bird collection:

and next is one branch from our peach tree - just how many peaches can one branch have?  The poor tree is so overloaded, it's lying on the ground!

To join in, or just to look at some wonderful photography, please click on the appropriate button(s) to the right.

Have a wonderful Monday and Tuesday.  See you soon.  Peace.  B : )

Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Holy Camoley, is it the weekend already?  I have to go back to work; this busy retired life is killing me!

COLOR CARNIVAL:
And yes, I forgot to vote again, but the three winners this week are certainly more than deserving!  That one with the thread makes me drool.  Speaking of drooling, here's Mikey's cake for this year -

and it was sooooo good - gotta LOVE a Publix cake!

CAMERA CRITTERS:
Here I was trying to take some good pictures of the White Bird of Paradise.  This is harder than you think because, for one thing, it's very tall, and the flowers are a translucent-irridescent sort of off white color, like those pretty paint jobs on expensive cars.  Except for one petal on each flower which is a pastel shade of, ohhhh, probably periwinkle (check your Crayola box). All around the flowers, the plant is pretty nasty.  Anyway, when I checked the pictures, there was a bird, in every shot.  Can you find him/her in all of them?

Did you find them all?

SIX WORD SATURDAY:
God, please help the oily wildlife.

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:
Eeek - is it a monster?  Is it an upside down giant bunny?

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:

Here is Joy, reflecting on the relections in the pool..reflecting on whether or not she will ever get in it...reflecting on when her Daddy might be not too busy to finish it..reflecting on how her Mommy thinks it is a blessing, finished or not : )

Click on the button(s) to the right to see what these memes are all about.  Hope you have a happy weekend.

Peace : )

SkyWatch Friday and Fertilizer Friday

SKYWATCH FRIDAY:
Goodbye snowbirds.  See you in the Winter!

FERTILIZER FRIDAY:
Eeeek - a polka dotted mushroom?

To join in on these memes, or to just stare in awe at some of the gorgeous shots, just click on the appropriate button to the right.  Happy Friday.  Peace.  B : )


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Watery Wednesday AND ABC Wednesday (R is for ....)

WATERY WEDNESDAY:

and...

ABC WEDNESDAY - R IS FOR REAL MEN:
Real men lie back on the couch, have a drink, let the belly hang out, and have the remote close by:

all he needs now is a piece of quiche : )

If you would care to participate in, or just visit, one or both of these fine memes, just click on the appropriate button to the right.  Go on, show the meme masters some love - they work so hard!

Peace.  B : )



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It's Ruby Tuesday Time

and here is a baby boy cardinal who lives in our yard - see the shadings of brown still on him?  That will all turn to red soon and he'll be all man : )

Hint:  you gotta make it bigger to see it better. 

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Peace.  B : )


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Mellow Yellow Monday

But first, we interrupt this Mellow Yellow Monday, to bring you the latest picture of Lincoln:

And now, on to the real Mellow Yellow Monday.  This one needs to be enlarged so you can see all the amazing details.  This is one of the decorative gourds we're growing on the side of the lizards' cage:

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It's a new day, a new week, make it happy for you and for someone else.  Peace.  B : )


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Fertilizer Friday, SkyWatch Friday, Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Another busy week, thus multiple memes.  I cannot believe how busy one can be when retired.  To do all I used to do when I worked - well, I'm pretty sure I was SuperWoman....and I know that all of you who are still out there slaving to make a living are SuperWomen too!  And men too, I guess, if you don't have a woman who does it all for you : )

If you would like to look further into these memes, perhaps even join in, please click on the appropriate button(s) to the right.  You are guaranteed to find some fantastic shots!

FERTILIZER FRIDAY - Freaky Peachy

SKYWATCH FRIDAY - tire tracks in the sky??

COLOR CARNIVAL - a napkin from Mikey's birthday party!

CAMERA CRITTERS - the lizard who thought he was the turtle's tongue

SIX WORD SATURDAY - MOTHER'S DAY GONE; FATHER'S DAY COMING!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - right smack across the picture!

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS - Lincoln is looking at his face in the pool water - look closely and you can see it too.

Hope you are having, and continue to have, a wonderful weekend.  I know, I know, Monday is coming up fast, ugh, but just try to think of it as a new beginning : )  It helps, honest.  Peace.  B : )



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Watery Wednesday

Our new Fig plant/bush/tree whatever figs are, in the morning dew. 

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ABC Wednesday - Q is for Quadruplets

Why yes, thanks for asking, I DO have quadruplets - they don't look alike, they're not the same ages, but they ARE all quadrapeds.

First there is Jeff

My big boy who communicates in querulous tones - uh, he whines : )
Then there is Ricky

my quirky little boy, who does some of the funniest things, gets in some of the funniest positions, just keeps us in stitches.  Here he is waiting for someone to tell him, again, that he can walk around that fence.

Then there is CiCi

my little girl who is without a doubt QUEEN of all who live here, visit here, deliver here, or just walk past here.  She was a queasy queen the other day - very sick tummy, but fine now.

And last (only because she arrived last) is Joy

my big girl, who is always questioning.  She's only a few months off the track so everything is new to her and she wants to know about everything!

Those are my quads - dontcha love them??  If you would care to join in or just peek in on ABC Wednesday, please click the appropriate button to the right.

Peace.  B : )
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Ruby Tuesday - Just a Little

There is not a lot of "ruby" in this shot, but there was a lot of joy in my ruby red heart when I saw the subject...well, actually three subjects - there were two males courting one female all right on the edge of our yard.

Pretty, huh?

Have a great day.  If you would like to see more Ruby Tuesday pictures, or enter your own, please click on the button to the right.  Peace.  B : )


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Mellow Yellow Monday

Hi there.  Hope your weekend and Mothers' Day were fun and love filled.  Our friend Mikey had his 54th birthday dinner on Saturday.  One of his favorite things is hats, so when I saw this one, I didn't even ask how much it cost, I just had to have it for Mike:

It's a Tampa Bay cap with fake fur for the crown.  He seemed to like it!  When we got home from there, this was waiting for me on the kitchen counter:

As if the flowers weren't gorgeous enough, being my favorite color and all (and the bouquet being made by Leanna), the presentation was amazing, and the note was touching beyond words.  This is from my younger step-daughter.  A very wonderful Mellow Yellow for sure!

Sunday I made a full fledged turkey dinner for seven - pictures of that later.

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