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Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning! (?)

Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning!Morning Fog

Isn’t that pretty?

That’s what I’ve looked at out my front window every morning this week.

The fog sits between the rows of apple trees.

The windows at the peak of the barn reflect the colors of the sky.

Birds sing…

Kids wake up fighting, clothes are misplaced, breakfast is cooked and then scorned, school wants kids there on time, my yogurt spills in the truck, other drivers gesticulate and swear at me until I realize I’m driving 10 MPH through town, I call people the wrong names, drive the wrong way, mess up plans to meet friends, wake up without my voice, forget my tea at home…

Mornings – they may be pretty but I’m not ready to call them “good.”

Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns

Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patternshosta from below

I’ve never been a fan of hostas.

Their huge leaves look overly tropical and out of place nestled under pine trees. Their mounds of foliage jump out and grab your attention – in the most boring greenish way possible. I suppose I understand how the leaves can be attractive- until Japanese Beetles attack and all you have left are attention grabbing, pillowy mounds of weird, tropical looking plants riddled with holes awaiting an imminent frost that will turn them into giant, brown piles of mush…

I’ve never been a fan of hostas.

But, the new house came with shade.

Lots of shade.

My hosta hating self is now the proud owner of lots of shade and lots of hostas.

But you know… if you take a picture from underneath the leaf, give it a bit of pick-me-up in Photoshop, then turn the whole thing upside down… I almost like it.

Of course it no longer looks much like a hosta.

In fact it almost reminds me of a water slide.

I have always been a fan of water slides!

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hourclematis and spider web

This photo as well as the top two images in my sidebar were taken in the “golden hour” before sunset tonight.

The clematis in front of our house is blooming beautifully right now, just a mass of deep pink blooms that reach at least five feet up the post they are growing on!

I’m busy scheming how I can manage to transplant such a large plant planted in such a rocky (base of a support post for the porch) location. I’m planning to wait until it’s done blooming and give it my best shot when we move.  My pictures don’t come close to doing it justice and it’s much too nice to give over to the bulldozers!

Any clematis transplanting tips? Helen?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic

Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic

hollyhocks and barnThere is something about yellow hollyhocks that always speaks of nostalgia to me.

Perhaps it’s the flower, perhaps it’s the color, perhaps it’s the memory of feeding the seeds from my grandpas flowers to his chickens.

Whatever it is, the sight of my own hollyhocks blooming in front of the barn had me jumping off the lawnmower for a quick photo break.

Not that I needed much convincing.

Hollyhocks give me warm fuzzy feelings.

Lawns care just make me grumpy.