Merry Christmas!!

"The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!" ~ Charles N. Barnard = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Ornaments.. both old and new.. help us welcome family and friends for Christmas festivities! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Thanks for stopping by my blog today.. I am sure you are hurrying through in between last minute shopping and getting ready to cook holiday goodies.. I welcome both comments and followers.. I hope you have a wonderful day and a very Merry Christmas! Patsy

The Wind is Singing a Cold.. Cold Song..

"All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people." ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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Blue Monday~

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~ Mellow Yellow Monday~

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Today's Flowers~

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~ Macro Monday

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Moody Monday~

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Thanks for stopping by my world today.. I surely hope you are wearing lots of layers or at least a warm coat.. The wind is wailing outside and it is very cold.. The dogs and I are snuggled up near the Christmas tree.. Thankful to have a warm place to call home tonight.. I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a great day!

Patsy

Tuesday.. Just a Quick Fly By!

"Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings." ~ Victor Hugo ====================== Shutter Day- Theme 184: Flight

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... eyes aimed heavenwards I wished I could fly!..

Thanks for stopping by.. I welcome comments.. Have a great day!

Patsy

This is One of Those.. "I Am Trying to Be NICE... " Days!.. Don't Make Me!!

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

~ William Shakespeare = = = = = = = = = = = = Garden Bloggers Bloom Day~

From the tiniest blooms of Border Grass

and Turks Cap.. to....

.. Colorful Petunias...

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There are many whose names I have forgotten.. they were not chosen by their names...

But chosen instead for their beauty.. in either looks or in scent.. or maybe they will feed me.....

~ I am thankful for my garden...

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.. And... my garden and I are Thankful for the slow rain falling now... I hope that something in this world has given you cause to be thankful today.... I am thankful...

31 Photos in 31 Days~ Straight Out Of the Camera Sunday~ .. = = = = = = = = = = = = ~ Boats on the water...

~ and.... Square Boat windows.....

Scenic Sunday~ See It Sunday~ Square~

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~ Kirstin plays her game as we travel to the beach...

We sometimes travel as a family to the beach.. we will all take out own cars and even our own friends may join in for the day.. These are shots from out last trip...

Shadow Shot Sunday~ Weekly Winners.. Travel~

~ the guys play football.. Jenny and her shadow are ready to walk!

Dave and Kirstin.. with some help from their shadows... build a cute sand castle..

~ Emily and Kirstin climbed trees...

~ and Kirstin made her first Lighthouse climb...

~ and as the day comes to an end and we all get ready to separate.. each going off on their own pursuits.. I beg and plead till the "little ones" give in and pose for my usual Photo of them.... Maybe on the next trip I'll do like I used to and give them each a roll of film and a piece of paper to write me an essay for their Scrapbooks...

I hope you enjoyed your visit into my world today.. and survived.. it was bad around here today.. Radiators just don't like us.. nor do head gaskets on jeeps.. and of course we have all this money laying around as well... NOT!.... I would scream... but I know from experience that screaming doesn't help... and soooooooooo.... we now move on to the next thing... Have a wonderful Day!!!

Patsy

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Friday.. Sweltering.. and Though it Thundered.. Not a drop of Rain!

"Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do" ~ Elvis Presley ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 31 Photos in 31 days!~ Day 13... ~ These fancy roses grow beautifully in the gardens in Orangburg SC.. pleasing both the eyes and the noses of people who travel many miles to see them.. They are indeed very lovely... ~ this simple beauty first grew in the woods.. someone probably had a house there at some time or the other and decided to move on.. leaving this beautiful old... - Red Rose bush behind... My Grandma and I found it as we traipsed through the woods and toted it home to her little house.. a while after we moved it she gave me a tiny cutting that she had stuck into some sand and covered with a quart mason jar.. until it grew a few tiny roots.. I have dragged this poor rose bush here and there and everywhere for the last 30 years.. moving it time and again.. it even survived in a bucket for a couple of years when we were constantly on the move... I am happy that it has survived and graced my life with beautiful roses for so many years.. It has been with me through many trial and troubles.. to me it's blooms are just as bright and it's scent just as sweet as any other rose I have ever seen.. it is one of my "fingerprints" from God! Weekday Photos~ Nature #4- Red Rose... Fingerprint Friday~ from The Rusted Chain ( we are asked to share our idea of Fingerprints from God!) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ My Town Shootout~ Roads and Pathways... ~ Would you just look at that sky.. this is made at the end of the dirt road where I live.. I was about to turn into my road when I stuck the camera out the window and pressed the button.. The sky was beautiful.. then it turned dark and thunder rolled.. the electricity even blinked off erasing all of my hard work on this blog.. forcing me to begin again.. ~ though they mat not be apparent to just anyone.. there are many paths through these trees.. the deer and the dogs have their own paths as do the squirrels.. rats.. and even the birds.. I can take a winding path to avoid the briers or I can just plow straight through to my neighbor.. Tina's.. house.. I am glad that the path you are traveling today led you through my simple world.. I hope you have enjoyed your visit here.. Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful Friday! Patsy SkyWatch Friday- Season 4- Episode #5... ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Fix it Friday #66~ from I Heart Faces... ~We have been given permission to edit this photo by it's owner..( Angie Arthur). for Fix it Friday.. at I heart Faces!

I decided to leave his beautiful blue eyes!

he is such a cutie.. he made me think of My oldest son at that age.. so I decided to do a photo of my son too.. His Birthday is today! He is 32 years old.. he was a cutie too.. Happy Birthday son..

I love you.. and miss you!... I gave them both some ice cream to celebrate Anthony's birthday today..

~ this is my original.. I told you he was a cutie!!

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