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Peonies, Pink Saturday & PicMonkey’s Collage

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Hello, gorgeous flower! Hello little green bug. I’m so glad you’re finally here.
And you…you look awfully pretty in my little McCoy vase.
Dear readers, I wish that you could lean right into this photo and smell these beauties.

On this Saturday, I have good news for all of you collage makers. PicMonkey’s collage feature is up. I happened to go to PicMonkey to edit these photos and boom! There it was! It’s very easy, very user-friendly.

I made two collages:

There’s lots of different grids and patterns. I’ve only played with it very briefly, but it looks neat. Go check it out!

Happy Saturday. And Happy 4th Birthday for Beverly’s Pink Saturday!

Bee Study

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I must have taken 100 pictures of these guys. They move so fast. One sip and 1/16th of a second later, they’re off to another flower. My camera is just not capable of taking one shot after another with no downtime in between. You can bet one is on my wish list. Let’s see…

Canon Rebel t3i
Singer Featherweight
A pair of jeans that fit

I won’t list all those pesky things like a new furnace, a new hot water heater, a rebuilt chimney, another car. Oh, and a lawnmower that works. Yep, it stopped working again.

We had to drive into NYC yesterday for a meeting. It rained, it poured. I mean poured. Don and I made the mistake of thinking we could share one umbrella. We were two very soggy souls. I know we need the rain…but I’m getting pretty sick of it.

The winner of Grace O’s book, FoodTrients, and an apron is Mary of A Breath of Fresh Air! Congratulations, Mary. Drop me a quick email with your address and I’ll pass it on to TLC Book Tours.

Happy Friday.

Look Who’s Coming Out to Play

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All of these photos were taken yesterday. This last photo is of the first peony to open. Oh heaven. I took a big old sniff of that wonderful scent. The peony above it is just about to open. They are about a week early this year. The yellow rose opened yesterday, along with some red ones. And the poppy…sigh…the poppy. I call it The Peeking Poppy because it hasn’t yet fully opened. Perhaps it’s shy? That shot of orangey color among the other plants is glorious.

And I had to show you the pod. It had just started to fall away from the flower, so I scooped it up.

Ain’t nature grand?

Lambs Like to Party

Lambs Like to Party

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