Good Morning!

Good morning!

Just popping in to let those of you who only follow me here know I'm still alive. 

Just busy. 

(For details, check my other blog, Long Hollow.)

But I have managed a few morning walks with my camera and the puppies in the past couple of weeks 

and thought I'd share my favorite shots...

Flowers can come in green, too, 

but I always forget that until I peer in close 

for a good look at summer weeds.

(Thanks to Theresa aka TexWis Girl, I now know the top flower is called Snow-On-The-Prairie. Perfect! Thanks, Theresa!

The American Beautyberry is coming along. 

Can you see Belle turned back to look at me, 

looking at them through the flowers? 

They think I'm crazy. 

But they're very patient and love me anyway.

These little yellow flowers died back a few weeks ago but seemed to have gotten a second wind.

Yellow flowers of all kinds are springing up from the rocky ground in the Hollow.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. 

~ Aaron Rose

Hope your August is full of color and light, even if it's speeding past like mine!

Beginning to Bloom

Just in the nick of time, too!

I'm not the only one who's happy about it, either!

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring. 

~ Bern Williams

From a Week in a Texas Autumn

There are times in your life when something's gotta give.

Unfortunately, 

that something for me recently

has been

my morning walk.

But this week, hallelujah, I slipped back into the old routine.

I love and need these morning walks.

It's been a week of beautiful skies, frisky dogs, frosty mornings, glorious light, hunting dogs, spring-like mornings, confused plants, creepy-crawlies, and splashes of autumn leaves.

I kinda went crazy with my camera.

I'll be nice and only share a few of my favorites...

Hope you had a great week! 

Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

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and the very last

October

Wildflowers splashing color along roadsides and playing at the knees of trees...

Butterflies dancing from blossom to blossom... bees wallowing in pollen, buzzing with excitement...

October is a second spring.



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Crossing Fences

I did it.

I crossed through the fence (that's how you get past barbed wire) and made my photography business official.

Barbara Shallue Photography is now up and running with its own website. I'm standing in the field of beautiful flowers on the other side, and don't even have any scrapes or cuts or anything.

The site is still in the baby stage, so be patient. Its appearance will change a little in the next few months - at least that's my plan. But even if it doesn't, it's there. It's alive. It's a start.

Thanks to all of you who answered my questions and who already popped over there to give me some love and reassurance. I'm so grateful for you!

I'll continue blogging here and at Long Hollow, though. (Yes, I'm crazy.) The website is mostly a spot to promote the business side of my photography. My heart will remain in my blogs.

Again, thanks so much for providing me the confidence to cross through that fence!

Pink and Yellow, Soothe a Fellow

I realized it's been awhile since I've posted any flower photos.

The truth is, our blooms have faded in the heat and drought.

But I found a patch of mountain pinks to share with you.

I love how the old wood frames the blooms.

and this lone daisy, 

or whatever it is, 

greets me every time I look out the window.

Hope you still have plenty of color blooming in your world!

Explosions

I apologize for not knowing the real names of these wonderful wildflowers now lining bits of our dirt road, 

but to me they'll always be 

Yellow Explosions.

And so, of course, I'm going to call these 

Purple Explosions.

Hope you have a weekend exploding with color and joy!