Who is this Beauty?

Happy New Year, Mama and George!

White Christmas

Annie and Boo!  Wait!  Where is Boo?

God has blessed Mississippi with a White Christmas!
  Merry Christmas to my blog followers!  All three of them! 

And Who is This?

Treasures

What an honor was bestowed up on me when I was told that Laura wanted me to have her china cabinet!  As I will always hold Bugg and Laura in my heart, now I have something they loved in my home.  The little hen I relate to my first memory of meeting Laura and Bugg and Dicky in 1965.  She (little hen) has a place in my living room in the winter and then out to watch over my flowers in the summertime.  I think Laura would approve! :)

Simple Pleasures

My sister's back porch and...
  Well, see picture--enough said :)

Mornings?

Does ANYONE wake up at 4:30 in the mornings just because they want to?

I DO! :)

Tribute to our "One Year Fence!" Click on Title Below

Don't Fence Me In

I Wonder?

LEAVES

Mamaw's Tea Pot

  So in memory of my Mamaw Lehman, who always loved limerick and rhyme, I give to you one of my favorite poems of inspiration:
                                        Bonnie, 2010
   A woman is like a bag of tea,
     You never know how strong it is,

      Until you put it in hot water!
                                      Eleanor Roosevelt

For My Sister and Sassy-Love Ya!

A Dog's Best Friend

O Lord, don't let me once forget
How I love my trusty pet-
Help me learn to disregard
canine craters in my yard.
Show me how to be a buddy
even when my sofa's muddy,
Don't allow my pooch to munch
postal carriers for lunch,
Shield my neighbor's cat from view,
guide my steps around the doo,
Train me not to curse and scowl,
when it's puppy's night to howl,
Grant I shan't awake in fear
with a cold nose in my ear,
Give me patience without end-
Help me be; A DOG'S BEST FRIEND.

Author Unknown

Rules of Photography

Some of the really cool things we learn in Challenge.
Enjoy my visual composition:

                        SHADOW OF INTEREST

                                       

STRONG CENTER OF INTEREST/MOVE IN CLOSE

                                                               

                       POSITIVE/NEGATIVE

                           
               UNUSUAL ANGLE--- MY REFLECTION IN FOUNTAIN

       LOW ANGLE--ANGEL

                                                                   FRAMING

                                                                       MORE FRAMING

            RULES OF THIRDS & MOVE IN CLOSE

                                                                   HIGH ANGLE

                                              LEADING LINES OF INTEREST=NANCY

Lazy Man Caramel Apples

Or should I say, Lazy WOman's Caramel Apples?
Recipe as follows:
    Unwrap caramels,
    take a bite of apple, 

   pop caramel in mouth.
           and
Yum, Yum!!
It is so much faster and easier to eat too!  

Last of my Blooms

My poor flowers are trying to show-off even though I am neglecting them ever so badly.
  It is just so dry.  So... my ode to the flowers:

'Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
~William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Ballads, 1798

Peek A BOO!

Really, Puppie is playing peek-a-boo with BOO!  Bless her heart!  He is driving her NerVous!

My Flea Market Find--I wonder what photographs have been taken with this?

I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams

Home Sweet Home

Serenity=My Mama's porch at sunset

God grant me the serenity
 to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can
 and the Wisdom to know the difference

I Love Halloween

Decorating for Halloween means I can get my little witches out of storage.  Oh who am I kidding?  I leave them out all year!  teeeeeeehheeeeee.......
  My sweet little "oldest" is going to help me post the music clip soon...;-)

Wooo Hooo, Witchy Woman!
  Got to love the Eagles


Raven hair and ruby lips
Sparks fly from her finger tips
Echoed voices in the night
She’s a restless spirit on an endless flight
Wooo hooo witchy woman, see how
High she flies
Woo hoo witchy woman she got
The moon in her eye

Nanny's Rocking Chair

“Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.”

Happy Fall Y'All

Today is the second day of fall and it is BEAUTIFUL outside.

Can you find the hidden puppy?

 Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.  ~Albert Camus