Two Months...Yikes...

...where does the time go?  Old adage but true.  For one, I went back to Oregon for a week.  There was a death in the family but the trip was not sad.  In fact, it was lovely.  I miss my home very much !  Here are few reasons why:

Foxglove along highway 38 - on the way to the coast.  Ferns, scotch bloom and firs in the background.

 

 

The Pacific Ocean, late afternoon, with the evening fog coming in at an overlook near Reedsport.  Perhaps this appears a little too gloomy but I love it...the mystery and majesty.

 

 

The Umpqua River at Elkton.  Lazy in the summer, crystal clear and serene.



 

 

Shore Acres State Park, Charleston.  This beautiful botanical garden is home to a glorius rose garden but the backdrop of the cedars and ferns attract me more.



 

 

These roses are for Uncle Rudy - the reason I was there and a wonderful man he was.

 

 

Now the reasons I am here...Ivy on her trick bike and baby Devlin learning to love his feet!  My doll babies.

 

Happy days til next time we meet on the airwaves!

A Tribute...

... to Ali.  Her big name was Lovealota Allison and that is fitting because I loved her a lota.  She was a May Day dunn filly born in 1987 and that made her 27 years old when she died two days ago on May 20.  She was my solice.  It is impossible to say how much I will miss her.  This is our profile picture and that, too, is a fitting word, 'profile' - she was part of me.  I will miss you with all my heart old girl.

My goodness how can this be...

...I wonder how many bloggers stop writing and then decide to go for it again?  I especially missed the photography.  I will see something out of the car window and think 'wow, that would make a great blog photo' and then keep driving.  I have decided to slow down again and stop the car once and awhile!

This is the perfect time to start things off...spring!...intense green!!  Greens off all shades but not the deeper greens of summer, these greens have lots of limes, yellows and tinges of reds.  Because we moved to the woods I now can sit outside and am literally surrounded with green.  Everything has decided to wake up and just live life large!  Bugs galore, birds galore, frogs galore...so ta-da! photo number one:  a gorgeous swallow tail butterfly that loves the blossoms on this bush. 

Unfortunately, I don't know the species of this lovely bush but it attacts everything...honeybees, butterflies, bumblebees...when I sit below its branches in the afternoons, it is actually noisey with the hum of insects. 

In our family we also have someone new...a new baby grandson!  Baby Devlin rounding out three weeks and thriving with all the sweetness of spring.

And while baby slept big sister headed for the pond and a little tiny frog catching...nothing like a little mud and sunshine to make a young girl happy!  (I know these days will quickly pass so must record this for posterity!)

 

Love you big sis!