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!

May Day, May Day

On a whim, 

coming home from work on May Day, 

I pulled over

and photographed the wildflowers 

waving to me from the roadside.

The next day, 

the roadside had been freshly mown. 

I'm so grateful I listen to whims.

Deepwater Blooming

I took these last week while visiting my parents and intended to post them days ago.

Sigh.

That's just the way it's been lately.

(Deepwater is the name of the neighborhood I grew up in, by the way.)

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off they sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

Wisteria dripped from thick vines woven through a trellis on the back porch.

Morning Glories turned the chain link fence into a work of art.

My grandmother planted these brilliant azaleas in the front of the house. 

They shout SPRING IS HERE!

Wisteria petals dotted the patio table. 

So delicate.

These are blossoms on a Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow plant. 

The petals change from purple to lavender to white. 

Amazing and gorgeous!

Just a carpet of tiny yellow flowers decorating a field in the middle of the neighborhood where all of the schools are located.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. 

I'm spinning in circles again, but will try to come around visiting everyone this week!

P.S.
My friend was able to recover my lost NEF files, by the way. He used a program called Rescue Pro by Sandisk. Whew! I'll be eternally grateful to him for taking the time to retrieve them and help me learn a little more about photo files. (And all it cost me was a 12-pack of Budweiser!)

Check out his beautiful website and if you have friends getting married in the Austin area, send them his way: Bruce Coville Photography

Walking in the Country with Boy and Dogs

Middle son came home a few weekends ago. 

 I had a rare Sunday afternoon free of work or other obligations... 

...so of course we took a long walk with the puppies (and my camera.)

Doesn't this look like an oasis?

Robins and yellow flowers...

...spring must be just around the corner! 

Daniel took me on a path I'd never walked before and showed me these huge vines.

Amazing!

I spotted the hole in that tree and took this shot with my zoom to get a closer look. 

It reminds me of, ahem, certain body parts. Am I the only one? 

It kind of goes along with the tree in this post, doesn't it?.

Does anyone know what these little pom-poms are? I love them. 

It's like the tree is having a party.

Belle lounging in the dirt

Daniel, the sweet and kind and funny...and all grown-up.

Sigh.

P.S. Many thanks to Hilary at The Smitten Image for bestowing a Post of the Week on this post and this post of mine! Two in one week! You can only imagine how big my head is right now! Be sure to visit Hilary, see her beautiful photography, and read the other Posts of the Week. 


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