Wordless Wednesday

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beauty, creation, faith, flowers, garden, oregon, photography, schreiners

Is It Friday, Yet?

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birthday, cat, days, flowers, gift, gratitude, life, spring cleaning, tabby

Another cat photo for this week. Riley posed for me. She has been admiring my bouquet of flowers I received for my birthday. Truthfully, she has chewed on some long wispy, grassy pieces, that attracted her attention. But in my eyes, she can do no wrong. Lol! I no longer live life by wanting Friday to come. My days revolve around, up early with the birds. Saying a prayer of thanksgiving for my five senses that function, and the mobility of my body, that gets me here and there. In days past, I had a job as a teachers assistant, and we all looked forward to Fridays. Since October I have been working part-time in a library and it’s a fun temporary job. We have started feeding the birds, and I love watching them and I am wanting to learn the name of our visitors. We have embarked on some spring cleaning and had Mr. G haul some items off today. Progress has been made, but the mess I created sorting, is an eyesore. Tomorrow is another day…

Girl With a Straw Hat

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dahlias, flowers, fun, kim klassen, photo art, relaxation, texture

I decided to use one of Kim Klassen’s textures, that she provided for those of us, that joined her for Texture Tuesday’s. I had almost forgotten, about how much I enjoy using texture with my photos. I drift off into this creative mode and find it very relaxing and therapeutic as well. I will have to incorporate this back into my weekly photography regime, once again.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame

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daily post, flowers, petunias, photography, thunbergia, vine, yard art

Thunbergia vine, framing Petunia’s

Linking to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge of Frame

Wordless Wednesday

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community, eclectic, flowers, inspire, invitation, music, oregon, piano, street photography, town, vase

Carefree

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bubbles, carefree, flowers, free, fun, happy, people, photography, simple, simplicity, young man

carefree

and

joyful

at 20 something

simple fun

planned

perhaps

right

idea

for this pretty place

of color

Wordless Wednesday

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flowers, photography, primroses

Simple Beauty

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beauty, creation, flowers, gratitude, nature, photography, pink, raindrops, reflection, refresh, simple, watered

Thank you…Rain

It’s So Summer

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backyard, flowers, hot, nature, outdoors, photography, quiet, rain, sunshine, thunbergia

It’s pretty quiet on the home-front. We’ve had sun, clouds and then a few raindrops.

It it supposed to heat up on Sunday. I heard that it was 116 in my hometown of Palm Springs. I am not sure if that is true or not. I will have to look it up.

I don’t know what these are, but they are sweet looking..

What Works for Me

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artist, bees, charm, city, flowers, garden, greeting cards, neighborhood, photography, watercolor, yards

In December of this year, we will have lived in Oregon for two years. We have done some exploring, but have spent most of our time still settling in. Planting plants is recreational for us and checking out different kinds of plants that are unfamiliar to us, is a treat. We have some new Bee residents now, and they appear to be doing well. I just have one bit of advice for you about bees, don’t let one get stuck in your hair. It has happened to me twice and the lesson was, always pull your hair back or wear a hat. Now, I don’t normally get that close to the bee’s and they do leave us alone, but I was assisting the Bee keeper and he just jumps right in there without any of that silly protective covering..Lol!  I really appreciate the look of a small quaint towns, but I find driving through Portland kind of fascinating. I like observing the old brick buildings, admiring the charm of older homes, with yards of lush greenery, and all of the great colors coming from Rhododendron’s, Clematis’s, Azalea’s and more. On a recent visit to Portland I had an opportunity to walk through a neighborhood while my husband went to shop at a Bee supply store.

None of the homes in this area are alike

Pretty Wisteria

A Rose garden

While on our way to locate a bakery we had passed, we ventured into a local farmer’s market. As I looked around I discovered some greeting cards for sale. I was very much attracted to the artist, Mason Parkers style of watercolor. They have that charm I like and I see that he will have some 2016 calendars for sale in the near future. I’ll be first in line..