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Cosmo, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
This is Cosmo kitty and he’s a wild and crazy guy! See how he is standing on his back feet for the whipped cream? I can get him to jump two feet in the air when playing with the kitty fishing pole or feathers on a stick. He’s really funny sometimes.
This little guy has been on this wee lily pad all day it seems. He let me take his photo several times-must be use to me outside! Not one waterlily bloomed this summer and I usually get one for goodness sakes. We still have warm days ahead. And I do remember tossing food into the planters also.
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Oh this was a difficult hunt, but I located some dusty strings on this model ship in my son’s bedroom (reflected on his little dresser mirror). I didn’t want to pull out the guitar and I even took this photo:
of Bri’s old slippers (ew and never thought they would get blog time) and this:
Of a pretty tassle hanging from my curio cabinet.
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Sherry is doing a Truth or Dare for her blog party. She had quite a dare! My goodness girl!
The only thing I remember is I dared myself to stop these freshman girls in the dorm from slamming their door every time they came in and out. I was older and it was rather annoying. It was before security cameras, I guess, like 1980. I got out the vaseline and coated the door knob. I listened for a reaction within the next 1/2 hour and I heard a ‘ewwwww gross’ as they tried to open the slippery doorknob . HA! I had a good laugh. And I kept a straight face when they told me about it too.
All in a row, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
I recently purchased about 11 pounds of ephemera from an ebay seller. Don’t worry, I am not saving it all, but going through it and scanning photos and other ephemera for my art projects. Feel free to go take a look on Flickr if you would like to have some vintage goodies to work with.
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Good luck to the people in the New Orleans region. It sounds like they are better prepared this time. Thinking about my old friends A&M.
Late Summer Longwood Gardens 2008, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.I did get over to LG for about 1 hour. It’s a little hike to the Italian Water Gardens, my focus here. I didn’t even go to the Idea Garden or Conservatory. I’m going to try and go once a week for the exercise. A week ago, I was at the top of the lighthouse in Atlantic City! Even though I’m hurting some, I think continuing this will be worthwhile and I’ll have more energy.
I saw lots of bees, not one big butterfly. I had to come home to see them. Saw a bride and groom when I was leaving. I think they were just putting on their wedding outfits to get their photos taken.
Came home and made a almost from scratch roast beef dinner (used instant potatoes).
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I want to give a shout out to local young lady Amanda McGrory who will be going for the gold medal in racing at the US ParaOlympics. She was featured on the local news station last night as someone who has made a difference in sports-a ‘game changer’-video here. Amanda use to go to school with Sean (elementary) and was in the CCD class Bri and I helped with many years ago. She is a lovely, bubbly person.
Just got finished watching Hillary Clinton’s speech at the convention. I still wish it was her, but that’s the way it goes. She is so articulate and shows how intelligent she is. Funny to see Bill getting all misty-eyed. Her experience really showed. I like Michelle Obama, but Hillary is the seasoned politician. I know that Michelle isn’t a policitian, but she can surely learn a thing or two from Hillary.
Off to the dentist tomorrow-again. Am getting fed up. They did x-rays on Brian a few weeks ago knowing that he was on his 2nd visit of the year and that he had had a filling-so no insurance money left and us in the hole again. I purposely didn’t have x-rays my second time, nor did Sean. I’m surprised Bri did.
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Not to insult any living being, I chose wrinkled things from nature.
This is a nasturtium bloom. It’s a gorgeous orangey red. I had bought a few packets of seeds and went around and poked seeds everywhere, simple as that. I am now getting rewarded by these surprise gems in all hues. And you can eat them too-they taste peppery. Here’s a yellow one with the sun shining on it brightly:
They tend to love the dry and sunny conditions we are experiencing now here in PA.
Holly Hobbie Embroidery, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
Here’s one of my first ever completed needlework pieces that I did way back in 1976 when I was about 16 going on 17. As you can see, I used a film camera to photograph Miss Holly Hobbie. I think she’s pretty nicely done for a 16 yr old, though I believe I used 6 strands of floss where I should have used 3 to 4. Now she is hanging in my guest room, a yellow room. She wasn’t framed until 25 yrs or so after she was embroidered.
These are little Holly Hobbie plaques I found at a yard sale and thought they looked nice with my framed piece.
Here’s why (did it just today)-
Don’t know if you can see where it says ‘228 steps-one amazing journey’. I was totally zonked. But look at this neat photo of the lens at the top:
And my red van looked so small from 169 feet up:
I had my almost 22 yr old son prompting me to keep going, felt like a lady in labor! There were six landings to rest on-how ingenious. My legs were like noodles near the top and at the bottom and I was totally sweating and my heart was beating like crazy. Guess I can cross another one off the list on things I wanted to do!
The doorway to ‘heaven’. The stairs looked like that the entire way up.
But what a view! That’s Brigantine from the top of the lighthouse. You stand in a cage. I felt a little funny up that high.
We had a good time, had some great food, nice beach time and weather and saw some neat things! Will tell you more tomorrow. It’s good to be home!
Update- 8:11
Mom and I are in the gorgeous room at Caesar’s relaxing. I’m through for the night as is she. The guys went to play miniature golf. We’ve been here since about 12:30 (we got here in no time and used Sean’s new GPS system which is really neat-wish we had gotten one at that low price) and met Bri’s dad in a nice restaurant for lunch. We didn’t go on the beach yet, just looked around the rather expensive/high end new mall. One store, all Victorian style things, had stickers-the kind I use for my crafts-$25 for the little package! Are they kidding? We had a gift card and used it in a candy store. Bought some salt water taffy for one thing for my blogger anniversary give away!’
The room is really for handicapped, but it’s really big-like a small apartment- a sofa, ottoman plus a table and two chairs(and a huge bathroom). I took photos. I hope we can sleep ok though.
We ate in an Irish pub style restaurant in the new mall I had chicken pot pie, Mom had pork tenderloin stuffed wih apricot, Bri had fish and chips and Sean had salmon.
We lost moola. I won’t be playing anymore. Sean did win about $12 and I think that Bri and Sean won $30 and split it.
Guess we’ll go to the beach tomorrow. I’m on the internet as it’s costing $13 a day and I might as well get my money’s worth.
We’re off for a few days to the glitzy shores of Atlantic City until late Tuesday. We were a little late getting stuff together as we got our portrait taken for the church directory early on Saturday. It turned out okay, but the guy took an excellent shot of Sean by himself which you’ll see in a month or so. Think I’m saving the other portraits for Christmas gifts. We bought a package with unframed prints. The photographer wasn’t much older than Sean and an English chap. He hardly let us settle in at all and ‘click’ went the camera. My eyes were closed in the first one. The last photo he took, the one we liked of Sean so much, well he made him say something silly. I had asked if he was going to let us say ‘cheese’ so we have time to pose. Some people are in a rush and there was no one waiting their turn.
Anyway, here’s one I took of Sean for a cute frame I bought that matches my Woodland Walk sampler:
I’ll share the framed piece soon.
Take care!
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Study in color-favorite one, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
Someone remarked that my photo last week for the hunt was good enough for this week’s theme. That made me want to take some new photos! I arranged flowers from my yard in these cute little vases. I started to take photos and it took about 20 photos before I achieved what was in my head. Enjoy!
Collages & Creative Goodness 