Monday, Monday on Tuesday

We’re going to skip all the chatter and go right to a few of my favorite things in the backyard…

Hummingbird at the Cypress Vine.

Red ladybug, pink rose

 

 

 

 

 

Hungry Swallowtail caterpillars filling up on parsley

 

 

 

 

 

Baby Anole lapping up a water droplet                               

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“The fragrance, my friend, that floats to you this moment, streams from the tent of the secrets of God."      - Rumi

Wishing on a Christmas star in July

Notice the pretty Christmas button to the right?  This would be the project I mentioned last post.  I saw this opportunity and thought “Why not?”.  Can you imagine?  --a crew of Christmas elves arriving in Santa’s sleigh or Matthews van (sans red velvet and fur collars due to the Texas heat) and decking the place out?  Joy to the world!     

So I sent in my photos.  Just 5.  They wanted to see collections. We’ve got those a plenty. And a mantel.  Santa visits ours and fills the stockings every year.  Furniture pieces that can be decorated.  Do we have too much?  Windows.  Windex to the rescue.   And a clean and fresh place.  Lovey and I captured and relocated all the dust bunnies and pronounced the place pretty cheeky –or fresh.  Also wrote about some of our family Christmas traditions.  Now we wish upon a Christmas star that we will be chosen!.

We think we have good house decorating “bones”.  What do you think?

Here’s the 5 photos I submitted:

 

 

 

Living room

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kitchen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Break-fast area

 

 

 

 

 

 

Den

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dining Room

 

 

 

 

I wanted to send these photos too:

Remember (June post) the newly decorated, Holiday “altar” in the foyer?

And I redid all the shelves in the den.

 

 

 

Right side shelves and Momma Cat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shelves and Mantle

 

 

 

Another dining room photo with Pan (in the corner on the phonograph) wearing his party hat. 

I guess that’s it. 

Wishing.

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More Snow!

Guess what I did again today?  Took more snow photos! 

But not just any snow photos.  It’s…

Sponge Bob Snow Pants!

He said to say “Howdy Ya’ll!”

Here are some photos I took yesterday…

Because we got more snow.  That’s 10 inches!

  I think she was having fun!

Stay warm.

Snow

So, what did you do today?

I took some photos.  See?

Don’t you worry about this kid.  He’s a teenager and this is karma, dude.  He’s got his IPod so he’s good for awhile… 

Oh my, but that’s funny.  

Pretty pictures taken in the snow…

That’s a lot of snow! 

This is DR’s clubhouse.  She decorates it with hope, happy thoughts and pretty little things!   It’s been told that if you find your way through the “twinkling charms” and ride the slide to the bottom you’re certain to have one wish come true.

Somedays I ride that slide two or three times…

Snow still falling…

A penny for a kitty thought.

A Good Day

Yesterday was a play day for the eldest chillie and me. An adventure into Big “D”.

We started with breakfast.  I love a good breakfast.Poached eggs on homemade wheat bread and jam toast is a favorite.  That’s Amy’s homemade Berry Jam. It was so good.  You can’t see it but coffee was there too.  Happiness! 

Do you know what makes breakfast even better?  Enjoying it out on the patio… entertained by Momma Kitty.  Here she is trying to camouflage herself into the bird bath.   A good day for us is driving into Dallas to “snatch” some photos.  Spontaneous photo snatching is something we both like to do.  All you do is find an interesting spot, stop the car, walk around and start “snatching”.  I like to re-find places I’ve driven by and not had time to stop.  You miss a lot of details and hidden spots driving through a city.  I make a mental note of these to come back to.  Awhile back, I remembered seeing a small garden with large Fu Dogs guarding the entrance.  We wandered till… 

We found the Fu Dogs…

Guarding the roses…

Growing below the castle

Built high in the sky…

Safe from

The mouth of the Lion…

Who drinks only the dew

fallen fresh from the flowers…

Being charmed by the music

Too heavy for the wind to carry away.  -Julie Palmer

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And then we were told of something else…

A little something hidden across the street… 

“Pee Wee’s Playhouse Meets an Opium Den.”

Oh. My. Gosh!

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Come with me,

Through the Looking Glass…

Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Begin at the beginning ... and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

It was much pleasanter at home, when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits.

If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter   

Curiouser and Curiouser.  

Quotes by Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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