I love to collect old photos once in a while. I have no idea who this young man is, but he is certainly ‘standing’ tall for this photo.
Last week was ‘hands’, so found this one of Brian holding a tiny toad:
Jan28
Category Archives: photography
Jan17
Winter Colour Week 2011-Starting with red!
I saw this challenge on Kari’s Artsymama’s blog and thought it would be fun to participate-get some mileage out of all those Flickr photos. Check out Poppy’s link The color for Monday is Crimson/red/berry-so I am sharing my first finish of 2011-Nickademus the sock monkey! He will be turned into an ornament sooner or later. I also shared a berry wreath and the winter berries that you just saw, but some red ones.
Here’s the list:
Monday – Reds
Tuesday – Whites
Wednesday – Blues
Thursday – Greens
Friday – Silver and Gold
Jan16
Pennsylvania is home
Just a fun little collage I did to honor the fine state on Pennsylvania. I grew up only about 10 miles or so outside of Philly. On this map, I live under West Chester now. My Uncle Don lived in West Chester. If you see route 322, that’s the way to Penn State.
I had to include Ben Franklin and the Liberty Bell too.
I’ve been to most of the towns here, not sure about Bethlehem.
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Met the dentist at the office yesterday for about 10 minutes-kind of ruined our whole day. He put a patch on my tooth, but I need a crown on it. I figured that. There are 3 next to it and one under it. I could have bought a car with what we’ve spent on my teeth.
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My mom still needs some good vibes-the bank keeps finding unusual things to stop her rev.mortgage from going through. This has been doing on since November.
For Photo Hunt’s ‘Shadow’ theme:
Just me
Jan7
Longwood Christmas Display 2010
Longwood Christmas Display 2010, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
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It was very chilly (below freezing) day today, but Sean and I headed over to Longwood Gardens as we were gifted with tickets and the display is closing on Sunday. There were some very imaginative decorations. I really liked the tree with the moss, dried roses, silver painted ferns and pine cones that were cut in half (photos #3-thinking Ms. Zoey would like that too!)The tent was interesting-the 5th photo. It displayed a collection of perfume bottles inside and there were at least a dozen bonquets of white florals around it plus lit evergreens.
I also wanted to see the gardens with an icing of snow, I don’t remember seeing more than just a dusting of snow there before. Very pretty. We also go for the lights which were just as amazing, but difficult to photograph at night. We went up in one of the newer treehouses called ‘the birdhouse’ and that was 3 flights of stairs-oy! Nice view of the Dupont house.
Another new area was the hall of bathrooms-I kid you not-with about 20 large individual bathrooms. The walls of the hall are lined with living plants (first photo).
We ate a sandwich and mushroom soup in the cafe. I had an eggplant one which was cold-would have been tastier kept warm. The mushroom soup tasted good and warmed us up. It took me a good 45 minutes to warm up when we got home.
More snow expected tomorrow.
Dec29
Worth sharing-Photo # 10,000 on Flickr!
I will probably edit this, but hey,having this many photos took a little over 9 years.
Dec27
Peach and purple sunset
Such a pretty scene to capture with our first winter blanket of snow. This was taken by Brian.
Oct20
Fall clean-up
Today I decided to dig up the Ornamental grass that had taken over my Lily garden. I ‘dislike’ forgetting to do things. I don’t know what happened last fall, but the one plant I had kept didn’t get it’s seed heads snipped and there were at least a dozen or more grasses everywhere in this bed. I still did keep one plant, but off came the seed heads!
Since I was all ‘worked up’, I went around back and tackled the Butterfly bush. Another shrub which was either not cut back enough or ignored. This was a job and a half! It took me a good 45 minutes to trim. I left an almost full garden cart for Brian who needs to empty it as I can’t lift it (with the grasses). I just left the big pile of branches from the Butterfly bush.
I also planted two pinkish-purple mums and 6 yellow pansies and dug up a Flowering maple plant. I am still packing up stuff to store-now I know why it takes me weeks to get it right as I have so much put out. I am sore, but glad I got done more in the yard.
Isn’t that a neat photo of the Milkweed above? I should cut most of those seed heads off too. Nature sure knows how to regenerate well!
Burning bush
Down the front path
Behind the house
Witchy pal from the Christmas Tree Shops.
Oct12
Thee and Thou went to the PARen Faire!
Around 4 or so on Saturday we kind of wound up in Manheim at the Penna. Renaissance Faire. Years ago, not sure if it was right after we were married, but I think so, Brian and I went and it was nothing like it is now. It’s almost like a Disney theme park! And let’s not get into the costumed people. I think many were visitors. Brian reminisced about the 1960s for some reason. : )
We saw a sword swallower, a juggler (with fire too) and his partner who did a routine on silks (not sure of the proper term). We were tempted to get food, but Sean had visions of The Olive Garden, so we only got lemonade and iced tea.
Here are some photos:
Pretty garden area near the mansion and entrance
Tribal Circus featuring Shelli. She has a toddler-look at the tummy!
“The Abbey” sold books and paper things. You know I bought a few things.
A Sword Swallower!
When in Pennsylvania-you have to have a place that sells cheesesteaks!
Brian and Sean in front of the Pirate ship
You could get an elephant ride-we all would break his back. ; (
We didn’t get to see the human chess game
I was taunted by the dungeon guard! No thanks buddy, not into seeing how people were tortured-plus not for $2 either!
And finally-
A cute set I wouldn’t have minded having, but I got to pose with it
We got stuck in weekend traffic in Lancaster and saw at least 50 people waiting to eat outside of the Olive Garden. We turned toward Strasberg and ended up at Hershey’s Farm and had a buffet dinner around 8:15. Not as planned, but good food.
Aug13
Photo Hunt-Orange
‘Orange’ you glad that I like orange? Lantana comes in some really some neat colors and I always have some in the garden.
Aug7
Photo Hunt-Colorful
This is one of the colorful displays found at the Philadelphia Flower Show last year. The designs look a bit like Easter eggs, don’t they?
Pulling floss to make something for my mom for her upcoming 80th birthday next month. I think I can get it finished-just have to start it!
Happy Weekend to you All!
Collages & Creative Goodness 