Tiny Friend

PS Thanks for showing Painted House some love. I can always count on the blogospere for support big and small.

Locked Mail

New Gadget

Ok..I get it. This blog painfully boring these days but could someone please take pity on this post and make a comment. I hate looking down the line and seeing it's the only one without at least one comment. Thanks.

Vintage Feather

Pizza Maker

Morning Sun

Vase of wheat in a patch of morning sun.

Bike Chains

The only picture I took today.
I didn't know bike chains came in colors.

No Air

How much learning do you think went on in this classroom today?

Frozen Yogurt

Mmmmmmm German Chocolate Concrete

Back to School

Elllll Camminnnoo

Elllll Camminnnoo (said in a low growlly Spanish accent)
Bad angle but seeing this little truck made me think of the two tone green El Camino my grandmother had in the 70's. She loaded up plants and mulch in it and tootled all around town. I thought it was so cool.

Church Steeple

This neon cross was put up as the steeple in 1955 as part of a renovation on my former church. My dad was attending first grade in the Lutheran school across the parking lot from the church while the renovations were in progress. He said hundreds of bats flew out when they pulled the old steeple down and for years afterwards the barns all around had an over population of bats. My grandpa rewired the church for the cross. It was a point of pride for the congregation at the time. It can be seen for miles around. It's now considered an antique.

Cute Little House

192/365

Halloween in August

Really? How about giving those of us with a refined sugar addiction a break?

Open House at School

Eggs At Home

LA relatives are at home
and so am I.

Painted House

DC in front of a home his great grandmother painted an oil portrait of.

Arch and Shoe Shopping

Grant's Farm With LA Cousins

Grown Up Cousins:



Little Cousins with Snow Cone Tongues:



Random Meaningful Saying T-Shirt Guy (No Relation):

Tractors and Fruit Stand

Louisiana Relatives on the farm:









Fruit Stand

Louisiana Cousins

At the Muny for Bye Bye Birdie with DC, JM, and Stretch. Didn't have a chance to take any other pics.

Wedding Response Card

This is not a joke. It's an actual wedding response card my dad asked me to put in the mailbox. The torn note was scanned or photocopied onto the post card.

Silage Wagons

Little Lamb

Surfin' Pups

Happy Endings

One year ago today I was experiencing the beginning of a dream. I was blissfully ignorant that there would not be a happy ending for me.

Today I was reminded that some people also get the happily ever after part too.





Congrats, MB, on your first paid gig. Thanks for letting me be a part of it.

Eight Months Ago

Eight months ago I gave birth to my son, beautiful, still and silent.

He is no less, just because he is not here.


Support Group:

Corn

In our family, after a summer rain, we often use the expression, "The corn's smiling."
This corn looks pretty happy inspite of the heat wave and lack of rain this summer.

Different

Read here for one of many reasons I do not want to celebrate my birthday this year. Only things aren't the same.....they are....so different.



Maddy, I know you're on vacation but if you're reading, Happy 40th to you, my Blogosphere Birthday "sister".

Girls with New Cars

My Favorite Ice Cream