Roses near my mom’s front porch.
Category: Photography
Hibiscus
This is another photo from my mom’s front porch.
Seashells
There is always something to look at on my mom’s front porch.
Baby Pears
My mom’s pear tree has adorable, itty bitty pears on it.
Front Porch
The front porch at my mom’s house is like a green cave.
Harriet slept while I sat at the porch table, taking pictures of seashells.
The porch is also the smoking lounge.
Bricks
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2011
Those used to be my mom’s chimney. It was leaning away from the house, so she had it taken down. For a while the bricks sat in a tumbled pile in the side yard, and they finally were stacked neatly. Now, the stacked bricks are covered with Virginia creeper and fox grape vines.
Comfrey
Comfrey Buds
Kittens Available
Hello, local people! Need a cat? (Doesn’t everyone? A house is not a home without a cat, right?)
These are the kittens of a cat my neighbor has taken in. The mamma and kittens are all available for adoption.
The kittens are about 6 weeks old now, so they’ll be ready to go in a couple of weeks. It looks like there are six boys and one girl. The girl is a dilute tortie. The boys are: 2 orange tabby, 2 black and silver tabby, 1 grey, and 1 black.
They have been handled by kids and multiple adults. They are not shy! They have also been acclimated to traveling in a carrier in the car. They are happy, healthy, playful and ridiculously cute.
The mamma will be available, too. She is a petite dark tortie and will soon be spayed. She’s semi-feral but is taming down very nicely. She’s comfortable being in the same room with me, even though she doesn’t know me. I’ve got a lot of experience with ferals, and I don’t think it will take much for her to become acclimated to a new home and new people. I’d take her in a heartbeat, because she’s a pretty little cat with a sweet disposition, but I’m at maximum capacity.
(Please excuse the crappy cell phone photos. I didn’t have my camera with me.)
Raindrops
Iris
Sweet William
Mary By Candlelight
The electricity was still out this morning as I was getting ready for work, so I had to shower by candlelight. Something about a nightlight lit by candles struck me as funny.
I know I should be feeling thankful (and I am!), because no one here was killed or even seriously hurt, but looking at all the destroyed trees around town makes me a little weepy. So many trees, and apparently all from straight-line wind. I think we had a final total of five tornado warnings, before it was all done, but the only confirmed tornado, that I know of, was south of here, near Bedford. Like I said, we were lucky, even though it’s still kind of painful to look at.
Walmart was closed today, to give you some idea of the extent of the damage. Walmart! Closed! Have you ever heard of such a thing?!
red paper boat 