Showing posts with label white bicycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label white bicycle. Show all posts

Friday, August 8, 2014

The final days of summer


Can you believe that summer is winding down already??   I can't!  It seems once again
that it has just flown by, but I LOVE summer here in Michigan this year.  Not scorching
hot, but beautiful weather for the most part.  We didn't even put in our air conditioners
this year and that is saying something.  Most evenings we even had blankets that we
covered up with instead of laying in bed roasting!  Although, I will say that we
 REALLY
 need rain here...badly!!  The grass is brown and crunchy which does not make
 for pretty photos at all.


I don't think I will ever tire of the chippy , white look.  Will you?   I think it is here to stay
for me.  I do add splashes of color such as pink and aqua every now and then, but I
always wonder what the next "trend" will be. hmm...


I am loving all my outside flowers again this year!  They are doing pretty good even in spite of
the lack of rain.  I have had to run the hose a bit, but not too bad.
 I  am glad that I can capture their beauty every year to share with you.


This is the back deck area this summer.  Yes, I do need to get the blower out and get rid of some leaves
and get out the spray to kill off some weeds and grass, but for the most part it is okay.  The area on the
right of the photo is just covered in tiny white flowers {Sweet Woodruff} in the Spring, but when
summer hits it looks rather bland. I wish the flowers would bloom all summer long!


I love white picket fences and have put them here and there on our property.



Here is one of our kitty's that we "inherited" when my son and his family took off for North Dakota.
They are finally coming around and being very friendly for the most part, but for the first couple
weeks we thought they would never return. ha!

We have two of them, both gray.  They are sisters and they fight like sisters do also! :)
One of them hisses at the other when it is feeding time and I tell them to stop that they
need to share.  We usually end up separating their food bowls. Crazy cats!!


I acquired this vintage can just recently and I love it.  I plopped some fake flowers in
it , but I really need to pick some real ones and take the fake ones out.
{I am a bad blogger...:( }


Up close and personal.  Not sure which one this is.
They are named Merida and Maeve and I can never keep track of who is who.
We need to get one of them a different color of collar so we can tell them apart.
One of them does have a wider face also so that helps sometimes. 




We had to work on this little window house this summer.  It has sat outside for a few years and was showing
the ill effects of the sun , rain and snow so we replaced the "peak" windows and I also gave it a touch up of
paint here and there.  I also added some silverware chimes and a white geranium sitting on an old stool.
Still love it!



I hope you are not tired of seeing my back deck area.  This is where we enter the house.
We rarely use the front door {unless we get locked out for some reason} so this is
the area I love the most. AND most of the time I can't remember what pics I have
shared with you so you may get duplicate posts.

Are you having a great summer? Ready for school to start??

I have been doing a few projects inside the house that has thoroughly exhausted me.
Hopefully I can share those with you soon if I can get some decent photos with this
crazy lighting.

Blessings~

Monday, May 7, 2012

Contain Your Excitement!


Notice my white bicycle in the middle of the top row?

 Ladies Home Journal contacted me and wanted to know if they could put my bicycle
 photo in the June issue of their magazine and of course I said yes. Who would have thought
that little ole' me who lives out in the boonies...on a dirt road...somewhere in Pure Michigan
would ever have anything published in a magazine. It is rather fun to go to the store, pick up
 the magazine and thumb through it until you find your photo. Then when you purchase 10
copies of the same magazine the cashier wants to know why!!
 Just kidding. I only purchased two. :)


I love the title of the article.

Contain Your Excitement
"We got our hands dirty searching the blogosphere for the coolest, most
creative container gardens we could find.  These savvy planter ideas all
repurpose regular household stuff, proving it actually is easy being green."

Here is the front cover of the magazine if you desire to find one in  your area.
I picked mine up at Wally World for a whopping $2.49 so this magazine does not
break the bank. YAY! That is always a good thing. I know Walgreens in our area
also carries them, but not sure what other stores do.

Happy new week everyone!!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Lookin' out my back door for White Wednesday

I took a stroll outside to plant some of my
violas and pansies and my shutterbug addiction
got the best of me.

Don't these violas look wonderful in this
enamel bowl? I dug it out of my potting shed .

I found this sweet chair when I went to my
booth this week to restock and tidy up. She was
calling my name...

How did this photo sneak in here?
This vignette is on my back porch.

Just loving these violas...

and the chair...got a little carried away with
chair photos didn't I? lol.

Remember my vintage bicycle that hubby
painted white for me last year?

I planted ivy geraniums and asparagus fern in it this year. I think I want to add a trailing vine yet.

This was my walkway a week or so ago... our crabapple tree drops it's amazing smelling blooms all over the paths and it is like walking down a rose strewn pathway. I love it !

don't look too close or you will notice the wire that attaches the basket to the bike... and the green plastic liner in the basket.

just love my bicycle

more petals strewn around...

I see some of the weeds I pulled are still in the pathway.
Just can't do it all...I am only one woman. lol.

Happy White Wednesday! Be sure and join
Kathleen at Faded Charm for more WW posts.

Flower strewn pathways full of blessings
are wished for you today...