More Rocks!

All I got for Mother's Day from my oldest child was a couple of rocks!!!




See the large red one and the very pocked green one?
Yeah, those are my two new ones.
Specially chosen just for me and carried all the way back from Arkansas.

"Mom, I brought you some rocks" he called happily as he ran down the stairs carrying the treasures in his hands.
He dashed into my room in blur of arms and legs, just like when he was five.

"Just look at this one, it is green!"
He knows this is my favorite color so he spoke the word with emphasis and wonder!
"And check this one out. One side is mostly brown, but the other side is this great red color."

I took them into my hands... as I have so many others and gave them the full attention they deserved, noticing every single detail about them...as he was hoping I would.

Sigh...


...I am loved!

It is Mother's Day, so I am taking the day off!!!

Happy Mother's Day to you!

See ya, tomorrow!

Boring!

My son is out of town so I am in charge of his hamster.
I took these pictures this morning to use them to give you the run down on creating my watermark, but I just don't have it in me. I put the mark on them heavy, instead of having it blend to give you a feel for how it looks.
Hmmmmm.
Maybe tomorrow, or the next day.


I still had to show you this relatively bad picture though!
How often does one get to see a hamsters tongue sticking out???


He spent a few minutes shoving every single piece of food I put in his dish, into his cheeks.


It is my plan to tell you about the idea I had and how it came to be the final creation.
Wow, now that I type that out...it sounds like it would be really, really boring.
Oh well, you can read if you want to.


Here's to a delightful Mother's day weekend!

Oh, by the way....if you click on that Facebook thingydo up at the top of the right hand column' it will take you to the Monday is Laundry Day Facebook Page.
You can then "like" the page and will then get updates when I post on that wall!!
Pretty cool that I figured that out, right???
Then go...do it!!!

Tree that squirrel

Oh Shelby, did you get that squirrel up in the tree again???


Yes ma'am, about 12 feet up and hangin' on.




Are you pretty happy about that Shelby girl???






Did you hear another one somewhere else???


Well, this one hasn't left yet.



And while The Shelbster kept the squirrels busy, look who came by to feed!








I hope you took notice of a little something different today!
I will take the time to tell ya all about it tomorrow!

More photos

I just read my Sister in Law's blog about cloth diapers. (Hey Nicoll!!!)

I know that has absolutely nothing to do with my life right now, but she is a great writer and I like to encourage her, not only in her writing but also in her pursuits as a Mommy!
She happens to do the same for me!
Seester, I forgot to say that I like your photo at the beginning of that blog, it was a cute one!!

And photos is just about all I have for you friends today!
I had a post idea in mind, but just couldn't pull it together.

Some other day, I am sure.

Remember my first tomato?
It finally got red enough to eat yesterday.

I couldn't think of a better way to enjoy it than with my tomato loving best buddy!

So I cut it in two, then into chunks.
I had salt and freshly ground black pepper, but held the salt on hers.
We mmmm, mmmm'd at each lovely bite.
Well, after I finished taking pictures of it while telling stories to catch my buddy up on my life right now.
10 minutes later, she was like....."Uuuuuuuhhhhhh are we gonna eat that tomato???"

Ha ha ha!! She was very patient.

I pushed on this one a bit in my photo program. It looks so modern and "now"!
Well, except for the fact that the picture was taken yesterday, just before I ate it.



Hey, look at this!

I found a new button on my camera and was trying it out.
I didn't learn anything, but saved the picture anyway.
Riveting!


My boys bring me rocks!
It is one of my favorite gifts ever, but don't tell them that!!
My youngest boy brought me this rock last night.
He had chosen it, decorated it, then crammed it in a little jewel covered box.

You know...for Mother's day!!
The words, I love you MOM are scrawled without control or reason around the two flat sides of the rock!
Oh yeah baby, that's a keeper!!!

Photos

Oh friends it is hard to be creative when you are in pain.
Ha ha ha!
I stepped out my front door today just to get a little hopeful sunshine on my bruised skin.
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy!!
Well, sunshine in general makes me happy, I think God designed it that way.
So, to my left is this delightful rose bush provided by my buddy Rachel from over at Sweet Tea Enhancements.

She has really got an eye for beautiful things and brought this to me when I moved in.
See Rach, it is doing great!!! I know she will see this cause we hassle each other to keep on keeping on, with taking pictures each and every day!
I hassle her more than she does me...that is just our natures coming out though!

Two more steps away is this plant hanger doo dad thingy do.
I am still on meds and am having a hard time coming up with the appropriate word for this right now.
This is not at all what I had in mind for this picture.

I had hoped our previously seen fire hydrant would show up in that there rectangle.
Maybe I will try again another day. I know I need to change my f/stop.


I walked to my backyard then....slowly but surely!
I remembered that my bell peppers had been coming in and were showing some color.


The one in the front will eventually turn yellow.
The black ones in the back, will hopefully just get bigger!!
Isn't that a dramatic fantastic pepper!!

That is all I have for you today!
Be back here tomorrow!!

Well friends, I am still in recovery mode!
I woke up feeling pretty good, but as I got to moving, problems cropped up!
Now I sit here typing a little woozy from the pain meds I just took.
Did you ever take a pill and get that itchy tingly head feeling?
Yeah, that is me.
So I am gonna finish this up and head back downstairs!
Please, don't worry about me, I am really fine...it just takes time to heal!

I decided to water the plants and then take a peek at what our birds were doing this morning.
They are so shy when I am out there.
This gal was the first to show up.

She never got the courage to come close enough for some seed.


Next to take a gander at me....

...her buddy! He just jumped along the fence and wiped his beak back and forth across the top of it.

As he was sitting there, this group of three doves flew in.

I find it almost impossible to work on composition with live creatures who are timid.
"Uhhh 'scuse me fellas, could you all take a few steps to the left so that tree is out of the shot?"
hmmmmm!


Look who worked up the courage to actually land and take a nibble!

Way to go fella!!
I did have another little black headed bird stop by several times but he was so fast I only ever caught the blur of him.
I deleted that picture, but I am going to go and retrieve it just for kicks.

And here you go.

No, I am not too drugged up! It really is there! See the blur behind the black pole.
That is our guy.
I told you he was fast!


I was flipping through my latest group of horse pictures again.
I was gimping around trying to sweet talk this gorgeous girl.

I was so frustrated because all I had was my long lens and I couldn't capture all of her beauty...and she was so close!!!!
I would take a shot then move a few steps away to try to get more of her.


She just kept following me each time.

Ohhhhh such sweet innocence!
Nothing like that gray horse who had it out for me!!! Kidding, just kidding!!

Somebody needs to tell this girl about the Golden Mean!

Though sometimes centered symmetry can be good too.

And the last image I will share with ya today...

Just cause!

Okay, off to find an icepack and take another rest!
See ya tomorrow!