Category Archives: flowers

Zinnias for my grandmom

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I grow these every year and it’s a bumper crop!

Fuchsia Zinnia

Lime green zinnia

Pink Zinnia

I wanted to add that I made some comments about someone’s looks today that I regret. No one is perfect on the outside, it’s what’s on the inside that counts. My little grandmom had very homely feet. But she stood on her poor little feet many an hour to cook us hot meals and suffered finding shoes that were comfortable for her. By the time she was an elderly lady she didn’t worry that much about her feet. So from a middle-aged, near-sighted,  chubby, gap-toothed lady with some capped teeth and dyed hair-I wish you a good weekend! (I feel so much better)

Wildflowers forever!

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Mrs. Claudia Taylor Johnson passed away yesterday. She loved wildflowers and made preserving their natural beauty for future generations one of her causes in her later years. Here is the wildflower website. By the way, Mrs. Johnson was also know as Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Johnson. I hope her legacy continues.

Self-seeding Cosmos

~We are obligated to leave the country looking as good, if not better, than we found it-LB Johnson

I had quoted her in a paper I wrote for a correspondence course I took in the early 1990s called ‘Writing for Children’s Magazines’. (I did get my diploma, but never wrote anything! I took it at a time when Sean was little and my mind and energy were wrapped around him).

Today we are venturing down to my mom’s. We haven’t seen her for 3 weeks. I was hoping she’d come out here for a visit soon. I do feel better today. I am keeping a food diary to record how I feel and what I eat. I think the probiotics are helping me. Thanks for your suggestions too.

When things drive you crazy

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Take a look at these gorgeous flowers:

Bee Balm perhaps?

I thank Brian for taking this photo of my neighbor’s gorgeous watermelon red flowers. I could not tell from way across the road what they were. The easy thing would be to ask my neighbor, but she doesn’t even look at us cross-eyed these days. So we went out to the side yard with the zoom lens-ha! After he uploaded the shots (and the camera software zoomed in nicely) I could tell these were bee balm flowers. At least I’m pretty sure that’s what they are. Yeah. I’m gonna get me some red bee balm. ; )

Are you watching any of the Live Earth Concerts? We turned it on at 10 am and it’s on Bravo until 2 am this morning. Reminiscent of Live Aid back in 1985 (I watched almost the entire thing back then). A stand-out group was a group of British scientists called Nunatak (see my Vod:Pod) in Antarctica who performed on the barren snowy plains with penguins around them.

Photo Hunt-fake

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I’m not big on fake flowers (I really didn’t even need to add this!), but I do have this fake yellow orchid in my family room window (pictured in dining room window) to give that area a little sunny color.

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Fake Orchid

My mom loves her fake flowers and buys them almost every time we go to JoAnns.

A phone call

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My mom did call this morning. I would have called her if she hadn’t called me by 11. Her charades are so silly. She opened with ‘I’m headed for Riddle (the hospital) because my diabetes is out of whack’. Pure shock value. She was going mainly to get her prescription. Seems her 4th of July wasn’t that great, she ended up in a diner with her boarder and then they went to the movies in the pouring rain and at 10 at night to see ‘Evan Almighty’ which she liked. We did not discuss when she will come here again. I made Sean apologize for the hassle of Tuesday. She said she had everything on her patio. She could have tested herself to drive at least half the way and someone could have met her and followed her too.

Brian took off today and we may go up to the next town for their Friday night art stroll. Or we could go to Booth’s Corner Farmer Market. Sean is working tonight.

Anyway, here is a Stargazer lily that the rain broke off. The entire house smells so delightful.

Stargazer lily in Pier One vase
That vase is skinny and tall, rather neat. It was from a special Pier One buy out Big Lots had.

Also-I’m very close to a big cross stitch finish! Can’t wait to share.

Just a bit of shopping

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In about 6 weeks, I’ll miss my shopping companion when he heads off to State College. I have taught him so well in these last 20.5 year that he is a good bargain shopper like the old lady. Really he is! So I suggested we head down to Delaware as I wanted to see if Kmart had any good floral buys. We decided to hit Value City first. They were having a buy one at the blue/red ticket price and the second item was 99¢! I got Bri a few Pierre Cardin polo shirts-a total of about $14.99. I also got some 1928 jewelry and half off garden stuff-two little oval tables-two tone peach and blue, a mushroom that looks real-all mossy (that got a piece out of it somewhere in transit, but I can just turn it so it doesn’t show) and what I have wanted for a while, a two-tier planter! It has a smaller bowl on the top that connects to the bigger one in the bottom. We did eventually hit Kmart and I found some plants for it and it’s planted already! We’re having a downpour right now or I’d take a few photos of the goodies.

We decided to go to Pizza Hut-it was warm in there and there was no server! People came in and left, but we stuck it out. We were kinda waited on. I enjoy this particular restaurant as the one near Brian’s work just can’t make a decent pizza.

I didn’t call my mom today and she didn’t call me. I did call my sister-in-law and she had spoken to my mom and said she didn’t mention me. Oh well, I’ve talked about our little spats in the past. Maybe it’s healthy once in a while to take a break from one another. I wanted to take her to Longwood Gardens and Shady Maple (a place in Lancaster). She is always worried about her house and buying storage boxes instead of downsizing as she should come to the realization that she’ll be 77 in a few months and can’t keep a 4 bedroom place in shape.

Saunaland

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Yellow lilyIt really is soupy outside! We need to cut the clovers (I hardly see any grass in the backyard), pull weeds and trim bushes. Last night we had a terrible thunder and lightning storm which knocked out my mom’s power until early this afternoon. Speaking of mom, Sean is going to get her after he takes the exam for his night class, which ends tonight. Mom hasn’t been here since January(!) and I want to take her to Longwood Gardens.

Update late 6-28 

Mom misplaced her glasses and decided not to come out. We are looking to try again in the beginning of the week.

Enjoy the following photos:

A special motto

Bug on daisy

Marigolds behind a green sun