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Handful of impatiens, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
I picked a bunch of colorful impatien flowers last summer to squish and make prints of for my art projects. I had my husband take a photo of them first.
And here is my hub’s hand holding a cute toad:
Here’s a casting of my son’s hands made when he was 12 or younger:
Child’s tea service, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
This is an adorable little tea service my mom gave me one year when I was really into porcelain dolls. I use to have a table set up in my living room for several years with this on the table. I’d say the teapot is only about 5 1/2″ tall. I have this in my china cabinet now as I didn’t put the dolls back after Christmas.
Sorry this is a bit late, had major sinus issues earlier.
This past Friday, I decided I needed to do something different. I hadn’t had my van for 3 days and it was nice to have wheels again. I headed to Longwood Gardens to see their orchid display and to get a walk in. I want to try for a mile or so a week and build up. Here are some of my 85 photos, the rest are on Flickr. I love the blue poppy too!
I came home to a message that Brian’s father that he had fallen down on an errand to get a watch battery-the town he went to wasn’t around the corner. He tripped on the curb and hit his nose enough that it had a wound that bled a lot. They called an ambulance too. He was at the hospital and no one knew it. We tell him to carry his cellphone on him. To make a long story short, he’s doing good-Bri checked him out on Saturday. We want him to get his eyes and ears checked (he hasn’t been to an eye doctor in at least 15 yrs). He seems to be getting more frequent falling or tripping episodes. I even called Bri’s aunt to talk his dad into going to the eye doctor as she use to run the optical dept of a nice store in Philadelphia before she retired. Crossing fingers.
Also on Saturday, Bri’s car’s brake lights decided to stay on and we had to drop that at the shop and disconnect the new battery. When it rains it pours! I was outside raking out some garden beds too.
We are all anxious for Sean’s trip to Las Vegas-bon voyage to him!
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Yellow Gladiolus, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
Glads I grew which are a sunshiny yellow.
Taken on the first day of spring, 2009-looking in at the daffodils blooming in the warm conservatory on this chilly day.
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Four deer in my backyard, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
The day of President Obama’s Inauguration, these four deer hung out on the hill behind our house for hours. I used my zoom lens to capture this shot.
Taking some photos with a higher ISO # and I like how they turned out.
Happy Friday the 13th!
Hope to get to my Show & Tell soon!
Here’s the video I made of most of the attractions at the flower show. I have James singing as tomorrow is his 61st birthday. Enjoy!
Vodpod videos no longer available.
The name of this display is called ‘The Feast of St. Joseph’
I found many more photos here.
Succulent container display, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
This really stood out to me and I know Zoey from Perennial Passion likes container gardens. I’ll have to look closer to see what everything is.
I did join the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society this morning-actually it’s a ‘dual’ one and for a year’s membership, we got two free flower show tickets ($26 each!). We were all dressed and ready to go at 10:30 (the daylight savings messed us up) and Brian couldn’t get a hold of his dad. He tried for an hour and the answering machine kept coming on. So Brian didn’t get to go to the show and Sean and I decided to at least go to my mom’s and wait to see what was going on. Here he was sound asleep in his bed, the phone was in the other room, the tv was blasting downstairs and the stove was left on. Brian had to physically shake him to wake him up! He said he’s always been a sound sleeper, but I’d say the phone must have rang 100s of times and he didn’t hear it! The next room isn’t that far away. We thought he had fallen down.
We took my mom again (she had gone with my brother Don on Thursday) and Sean got the student price. My membership and tickets were waiting for me at the booth in the convention center. I thought for sure I’d have to wait to use them next year as it said I had to give them 24 hours to process. Before we went into the show, we ate lunch in the Reading Terminal Market-such a bustling places with lots of sights and sounds. I will share a few photos, but need to upload over 100 on Flickr during the upcoming week.
Mom and me in front of an awesome exhibit mainly with orchids in test tubes:
This is a neat one:
The show had an Italian theme and there was lots of gorgeous statuary:
I can’t forget Sean!
And this is one of the miniature shadow boxes-all the tiny plants have to be real!:
My brother Don was at my mom’s and he treated us to a nice dinner up in our hometown. It turned out to be an adventurous day for sure!
I made a video too and will edit that sometime this week too-all the water features are on it plus a silly son!
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St Patrick’s Cathedral NYC, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
Back in June, 07 we attended a wedding on a cruise ship on the Hudson River off of NYC. We had time to do sightseeing and went to mass on Sunday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Talk about a step back in time! And this is such a massive structure in the confides of a tight city space. Modernization has crept up around this grand church. It was amazing to go into the church.
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