The Official Start of Summer

Some people will argue that it's the Memorial Day Week-end, but Southerners know it's when the thistle blooms...this year we can all agree since it's all happening at once!

I Heart Faces

One of the many things I have discovered about myself over the last year or two is that I love photography. It has only been recently that I have committed to getting better at it. For some reason I felt it was beyond my scope of capability. But I have taken some pretty good pictures by accident, and so I felt I should try to improve on this. It is a passion I share with my older son. And of course blogging has given me a huge opportunity to play, practice, improve. In a way it's like beading for me: it is an art form that can yield some pretty satisfying results almost immediately, unlike alot of other creative arts which require patience, perseverance, and TIME. A big frustration I've had in the past is feeling the creative urge and trying to nurture it everyday, but running short on that time commodity. It has been important and freeing to find other art forms that allow expression and sometimes quickly. I'm not implying skill is not required. It is, and often I fail miserably there, but once in awhile I get it right. And yes, I am dying for a new camera. I've got my eye on a digital Nikkon, but can't exactly spare the $600.00 right now. Ah well. In time.

I have also become interested in other people's photography. Here is a really fun site, and they have a cool give-away going on right now from allpopart.com

Click on the icon to check it out, and scroll down to their give-away entry. They also run a photography contest every week.

Good News at Camp Osceola

Looks like the most boring picture of the bunch. But, it's really the most exciting...because those are buds on my Nikko Blue Hydrangea that I pruned in March.

THEY ARE GOING TO BLOOM THIS YEAR!!!

And now, on to the rest of what's blooming right now...

Clematis


Iris

(mine do not usually bloom, and this one never has!)

Knock-Out Roses

They were in 1 gallon pots last year when I planted them, can you believe it?

Sorry I have been away so long. If you follow my other blog, you know my daughters finally came home from Haiti after an almost 2 year adoption process.

Finding time to blog is difficult, but we are starting to get in our groove.

God is Good!

Hallelujah!