Spring is Here!

Ah spring is finally here.  I love the beautiful flowers this time of year.
Last weekend I hastily put up a "springish" wreath, mainly just so I could take down my Valentine's wreath.  Anyway it is a light aqua blue mesh, I had some pussy willow branches from my Valentine's day flowers from Paul that I saved and thought they would look good along with a tiny bird's nest and maybe some eggs.  BUT I ran out of time so it was just the mesh and the branches.  I was out of town most of the week so when I came home I wanted to check it to see how big a nest I needed, etc.
To my surprise a mother bird had solved my problem, although I would have put the nest where it could be seen.  ha!

 Can you see the nest?

 Looks like five eggs.

 The front porch.

While I was outside taking pictures of the bird's nest.  (and yes the mother has returned so I didn't scare her away) I found some other signs of spring.  A few bee's were in the mock orange shurbs.









Here is a close up of one busy bee!

Happy Spring y'all.

Oh my Where did February go?

Ah the best laid plans of mice and ME!!!
I had such great hopes to post a picture at least once a week, but somehow life got in the way.
I won't go into all the details but lets just say other than my sweet son turning 30 the entire month was a wash.  I had an appointment, site visit, audit or something every day of the month.  Plus a few surprises thrown in. I am happy to say my MIL is doing much better, I was so worried for a while there. 
Oh there was one other great thing that happened, Paul retired.  Yes I am now the wife of a retiree.  Hmmmm does that sound old to you???  Just a few days after he retired he left here to go to Hattiesburg to be with is mother.  And he is coming home today.  We were talking(texting) last night that other than a couple of times early in our marriage this is the longest we have been apart.  I am so ready to have him home.  And that "honey do" list is pretty long by now.  hint hint.
Isn't that what retired husbands do? 
Have a wonderful weekend everyone. 

Finished photo's of January

Okay here are the last six photo's of January.
I will have week one of February very soon.
The topics were color, lunch, light,inside my fridge,nature,me (and Paul)
The colors are my favorite ones(right now)  I have always loved brown.
Lunch if I am in the office is usually a Smart ones.
Light, the sun on a cool January day
Inside my fridge, yes this did prompt me to go out and buy containers instead of all the zip bags.
Nature, this is a wildflower
and last Paul and I on New Year's Eve before we went out to dinner at Cedar Grove.  (Love that place)

Stay dry today.

The New Plan

Okay I found out I can't manage to post a new picture everyday.
BUT I did find an idea on Pinterest that might help.
I HOPE to post once a week the pictures from that week.
Here's the plan.



Wish me luck. 

Days 23-25

Hello,
I found the neatest thing on Pinterest this week, a monthly assignment of picture topics
I think that might help me and I also think I may need to do one week at a time.
But I will finish out January.
Day 23 - Something Old  actually this is two things,  The ring was my grandmother's and she and my grandfather were married in the early 1900's  and the ring is sitting on an old family Bible.
I love the heart shadow. Do you see it? It took me lots of angles to get the shadow just right.

Day 24 - Something I have made.    I love to sew, I would sew more if I had the time. In the past 30+ years I have made many of our window treatments for our homes.  I love the whole process, picking out the fabric, the design of what will work for each window and the satisfaction of making something myself.  I really love that feeling.  Often when I see something I really like I want to see if I can make it myself, rather than buy it. So here is my breakfast room window treatments.  I love this light aqua and the brown toile pattern. 

 Day 25- Today's weather -It is raining cats and dogs here.  Thank goodness it waited until I got home.  I really wanted to capture a picture of the lightening but uh I ain't that fast.  But I did get a good picture of the rain coming off the roof above our garage. 

Hope you are dry and warm where you are tonight. 






Day 24 - Something I have made.

Days 19, 20, 21 & 22

Yes I know I am horrible at posting everyday, even when I take pictues everyday.
Forgive me.  Please?
Okay here are the pictures,  I have been taking pictures of the amaryllis as it opens and the second bloom has emerged now.

I just love how the great close up shots with my camera. 
Great weekend, it has gone by way too fast. 
We went out to eat at El Sombrero Friday night with some of Paul's friends from Grand Gulf as a going away dinner for a co worker. 
Saturday was hectic with a trip to Jackson.  We did a little shopping and then headed home.
I cooked one of Paul's favorite breakfast meals this morning.  French Toast (or is it my favorite?)
I am working on my taking photos of food. So here is the finished product.

It was good.
See you soon.

Day 18

Back in late November or early December I planted some paper white bulbs and one Amaryllis bulb.
The paper whites bloomed right on time for Christmas.  I guess the Amaryllis thought I would need something pretty in January.  It is slowly opening a little each day and looks like I will have a second bloom after that.  Maybe a third. 

Day 17

Had a great day off on Monday.  Really enjoyed taking some pictures around the house .

Here is a close up of one of the birthday candles.  I hope Paul gets to blow out many many more!

Day 15 and 16

Saturday was wonderful, a beautiful cold day.  We did not leave the house at all!!
I have been on a cleaning spree ever since the new year.  Paul was looking for some important papers and could not find them so the only thing left to do was to go through our filing cabinet one folder at a time.  Lots of Junk papers, I found the missing documents rather quickly but really wanted to get the files in "shape"  I labeled all new folders and cleaned out lots of old papers.  I also found some of the sweetest pictures and artwork from my boys when they were little.  Ahhhh.

I did make a cake for Paul's birthday.  He wanted a homemade chocolate cake.  The house smelled so good while it was baking.  Mmmmmm
Picture 16
Today is Paul's 55 birthday.  Yeah!! I was off for the holiday and Paul took the day off to spend with me.  We had a great day together.  We slept late, ate a late breakfast and then got dressed and ...
went to get the oil changed in his truck.  We ate lunch out at Cracker Barrel and then browsed through Home Depot and Walmart.  We bought a box of  microwave popcorn and movie at Walmart and came home and watched the movie.  It was so much fun snuggled on the couch, munching on popcorn and watching the movie. 
We grilled steaks for supper and then had big slices of the cake. 
Here is Paul with one of his birthday presents. I gave him a MSU tray and glasses. 

and one more of him blowing out his candles.

Boy I love this guy!!!

Day 14

Well I had a great Friday the 13 no major bad luck issues.  Whew.  Hope it was good for you too.
 Here is today's picture.  I didn't quite get the effect I was wanting.  I really wanted more of a silhouette, but a profile of my loving hubby works good too.