In the Yard

Persimmon blossom for a week or two ago...

 Turtle I come across often in the yards....Here it is wondering  why I am always walking around taking pictures of stuff..

Randoms

I found this in the ditch by our mailbox....has been out in the elements a very long time...rusted and bent and I have to wonder about when and how it ended up there...and wish I knew the story of that! What a story that might be!

spiderweb over by the garden on a foggy morning

Sure like seeing the Pileated Woodpecker!  awesome bird!

Stormy Sky

These were taken on the 19th out at Sarah and Matt's.....love seeing/watching storms!

Friday Evening Sky

Interesting sky this evening....this was looking South from our house.

and North

the West

and South again

Nice evening to enjoy the sunset!

That Tree in Fog

Two pictures I took this morning of that tree in the early morning fog...as usual, pictures don't do it justice.

Wordless Wednesday

Grapevine Project

I started a new project a week or so ago..Making a grapevine tree to decorate at Christmas and possibly other holidays as well.   I started off with a small tomato cage and a big pile of grapevine that I got right here in our yard and the mae yard.

Getting started on it....it's a learning process and imagine the next one will be better/easier

and still going on it...

Have to get some more grapevine and then will finish....will post a picture if it turns out decent at all.  So far has been a fun project!

Eagle

We were heading back to town the other evening after doing some work at the cabin....Richard spotted this eagle in a tree on Old Hwy 63...Pretty neat!

Picture Time

Have several of these bushes in the mae yard.....can't ever remember the name and it's not even that yard!  Mock Orange maybe? not sure

There is a also a couple sections of these old fashioned roses...smell soo good and are so sweet. I battle the honeysuckle to stay out of them with varying success...

the sun was hitting a dark bank of clouds one morning...and the water tower was peeking out from behind a tree.

Emily spotted this the day she was here.... a crab type spider eating a fly....it was on one of the big peonies right by our house...I was glad she was interested in it...

Emily

Haven't posted in a while about Emily time.  I had her here yesterday and we sure had  a good time!  We decided to walk around the yard and she wanted to bring her backpack since we were taking a walk.  We stopped to look at the recently planted flowers.

These will fill in and grow big..looking forward to that! Note her sparkly red shoes! They were quite the hit at the grocery store!

She wanted me to take a picture of the Mae House sidewalk....Sure had a good time with her yesterday! Looking forward to more good times this Summer with her and her brothers!

Sky

Pretty sky the other evening! was even better in person..

White Flower

Spring

The Redbud trees were just outstanding this year..

Sugar Maple

the rest of these pictures were taken at the cabin/river  So many pretty things to see this time of year!

Old Yard Plants

I took these pictures the last week of April....at that abandoned house    a Magnolia tree?!

I think it might have gotten singed by some frost

Neat old plantings still blooming   

I think this yard was really pretty at one time!