365 - 6.20 to 6.26.10

I just love ordinary weeks when nothing unpredicable creeps in to mess it up.  Perhaps this is a sign of aging (gracefully) that it doesn't take a lot of colorful drama to make my life complete.... I'll take it any old day.  I definitely prefer watching corn grow, rainbows that show up in the water sprinkler, finding chalk buckets on my back porch and thinking it's pretty cool that some 20+ year olds know how to have fun.  An ice cold water (with a few slices of lime and fresh peach... odd, I know, but strangely refreshing and very low cal).  The two whimsical critters that reside in the mint pot make me smile each time I look at them (lovingly named Rick & Vanessa... hahaha).  A visit by a tree frog to my back porch...and the week is complete with ordinary things that are not very much at all.

6-13 to 6-19 / 365 project

 Life has been pretty common at my house - sunflowers growing like weeds, bees making due with what's available -  weeds picked to make a 'good-morning' greeting for Angelica.  She & I saved a hummingbird that crashed into the kitchen window.  We thought it had seriously injured itself, but a few moments of TLC and off it went.  I love this glass sale boat that occupies my office - color for my world.  It has been so unbelievably hot - we love this mister thing that makes the back porch bareable.,, life is good in my part of the world.

How my garden grows

And now - 3 weeks later - the sunflowers are over 7' and the corn plants are almost ready to yield up the cobs, more cuccumbers and squash than I wanted.  Fried green tomatoes are on this week's menu.  I love having a vegetable / herb stand just outside my back door - LOL.

Procrastination

I've been procrastinating on starting my 365/52 project. Some of my digital scrapbook friends are dedicated enough to take at least one picture per day and journal it into a weekly scrap page. I'm not sure I'll make it through 52 continuous weeks, but figured I'm not getting any where if I don't step out of the boat and quit 'just thinkin' about it... and I just noticed that this week in review date is wrong - boohoo... should be 6/6 to 6/12 but I'm not changing it. LOL.

June 2010

Life can be so exceptional on any given day. My goal is to capture a little of it with my camera every chance I get.

Favorite Shoes

These are quite possibly the most comfortable, durable shoes I've ever owned. This is very important when you spend lots of time outdoors, stomping around in all kinds of terrain. Rick bought a pair a couple of years ago and after seeing how they held up under his abuse - I knew I had to have some.
I highly recommend these if you don't mind spending a little more than you ever wanted to on a pair of 'do-everything' shoes.

Hill Country INSECTS

Of the 200+ photos it's not really odd that I started scrapping a page of BUGS. Unique creatures have always captured my attention. I got past the icky, yucky, panic of discovering one when I was - oh - about 4 yrs old, LOL.
I just see the extraordinary beauty in every living thing and I found some pretty unusual ones in the Tx Hill Country. I wish I could have gotten a good picture of the most awesome spider that spread a web about 6 ft between our camp and the one next to us. She was a subject of many wishful pictures. I even had Tim get involved in catching food in an attempt to lure her off of the cedar branch into her web. Camera shy is all I could figure. Bet she was glad when I left after 4 days of messing with her.i