HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

Wishing everyone a happy and safe 4th of July.  God bless you and God bless America.  God bless all those who have served and are now serving in our armed forces keeping us safe and able to live in a country that is free.

WELCOME THE MONTH OF JULY

Shifting away from June's bud to leave dandelions scattered in the yard this dawn of July marks the end of a lie a lie from the past season for a strong reason.  In July robin will make herself shy and cover her reddish breast with her celestial bird crest then flap her wings to fly close against the sky. I want to kiss July and make July lasting forever in beauty but not ephemeral.   I will preserve July on my canvas and with magic brush so that she will be enthralled and blush.  I will paint July with charming colour so that she will be captured in delight and her soul enraptured because my heart is in July.
     ~Niji Chrys~


"We go in withering July to ply the hard incessant hoe;  panting beneath the brazen sky we sweat and grumble, but we go."
           ~Ruth Pitter~

WELCOME THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER

Summertime and the livin' is easy fish are jumping and the cotton is high.   Oh your daddy's rich and your mamma's good lookin' so hush little baby don't you cry.   One of these morning's you're going to rise up singing then you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky.  But until that morning there's a'nothing can harm you with your daddy and mamma standing by.    ~George Gershwin~


Hope everyone has a safe and blessed summer.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

My dad and husband are no longer here to celebrate Father's Day, but I know they are enjoying this day up in heaven.  I want to wish my son, Kenneth, my son-in-laws, Bob, Brian, and Alex, my grandson, Eric, and my granddaughter's husband, Bill a very happy Father's Day.  They all have wonderful families and are great dads and husbands.  Love you all very much. 

FLAG DAY

I still cannot post pictures to my blog and I had some good ones for Flag Day.  I hope everyone flies their flag proudly not only of this day but every day.  God bless America. 

WELCOME THE MONTH OF JUNE

"It is the month of June, the month of leaves and roses, when pleasant sights salute the eyes and pleasant scents the noses"  ~Nathaniel Parker Willis~


"June brings tulips, lilies, and roses, fills the children's hands with posies."  ~Sara Coleridge~

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY

Today is the day we honor not only those you gave their all for our freedom but those that are serving now to keep this the land of the free and the home of the brave.  Please people remember to pray for them and not only honor them on this day but every day.  GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

ARMED FORCES DAY

Today is Armed Forces Day.  Please remember and pray for those you have served and are serving to keep us safe.  God bless each and everyone of them and I want to thank them and let them know they are in my prayers every night.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

My mother has been gone for a good many years.  She instilled in me many good traits and virtues that I am so thankful for and I have tried to pass on to my 3 daughters and 1 son.  I wish my 3 daughters, Debra, Deann, and Kara  and my daughter-in-law a very happy Mother's Day.  This wish also goes out to all my relatives and blogging friends.  You all have helped me get through a couple of bad times which I am very grateful for.  Have a wonderful and blessed day. 

WELCOME MONTH OF MAY

"Sweet May hath come to love us, flowers, trees, their blossoms don; and through the blue heavens above us the very clouds move on."   ~Heinrich Heine~


"When April steps aside for May, like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; fresh violets open every day: to some new bird each hour we listen." ~Lucy Larcom~

HAPPY EASTER

Wishing all my blogging followers a blessed Easter.  Once again for some reason I cannot post pictures and I had some that were very nice for this Easter containing the real reason we celebrate this Easter.

AZALEAS

I have 88 azaleas bushes around my house.  Pictured are some them.  Enjoy. 

 

 

This last picture is of the wet weather creek in back of my house.  Click on pictures to enlarge them.

WISTERIA BUSH AND DOGWOOD TREE

My wisteria bush has more blooms then ever this year.  It just came up right in the middle of my cactus plant.  My husband used to baby it and now I do.   The dogwood tree is one of my big ones  the others are small but are also in bloom.

SPRING TIME IN ALABAMA

I  just had to show off some of the lovely what we call red bud trees that are blooming in my back yard.  I do not know why they call them red bud trees because the flower is more of a dark pink color.  We also have our dogwood trees blooming and I have some azaleas starting to bloom and when they are in full bloom I will post some pictures of them.  Also the wild iris are blooming. 

WELCOME THE MONTH OF APRIL

                                                            Another Sure Sign

                                                           By Evaleen Stern

               When pink-cheeked on every hand little girls are seen to stand turning skipping ropes, -
                swish - swash!  While their laughing playmates run jumping over, - oh, what fun!  Swish -
                swash! Swish - Swash!  Two and two now, see them dash! one, two, one, two, round they
                scamper, softly thought, swish - swash!  Such merry  skipping, one, two, some one is
                slipping !  Oh, she's out now and must pay turning rope while others play!  See the bobbing
                golden curls, little skirts in rhythmic swirls rising, falling to the beat of the little skipping
                feet!  When these pretty sights appear, it is surely very clear April's here!

               The first of April, some do say, is set apart for All Fool's Day.  But why the people call it so,
                nor I, nor they themselves do know.  But on this day are people sent on purpose for sure
                merriment."    ~Poor Robins Almanac, 1790~