My new baby pink…

Hydrangea. I found this hydrangea at leaf & Petal, on the clearance shelf, this spring. The flowers were starting to brown & it had lost most of it’s leaves. Putting it into the ground was a bit of a gamble, but I figured it was spring & maybe it would know what to do on…

The American Civil war from the Southern side

I’m a yankee to the marrow of my bones.  I live in the deep south & I have for 20 years (gasp)  My children are Southerners.  In the North, I never saw Union soldiers dolls, or cheap reproductions of other’s art.  What I have noticed in Alabama is that there seems to be a great…

an AMAZING IDEA FOR BLOGGERS

did I get your attention? I learn a lot from bloggers about gardening, cutting fresh flowers, photography etc My desk is a pile of notes EVERYWHERE, post it, pads students have given me. When I write, part of me knows I will never find what I’m looking for & when my desk has not one…

Wavy windows

Downtown Birmingham, Alabama…it is a pretty good looking mix of old & new architecture…and what-were-they-thinking buildings. My favorite is the old stuff, that seems to be where the love is. God is in the details. I think, with architecture, love is in the details. Older buildings, was a time when the craftsmen showed people what…

He made my day…

To me, the best part of blogging is not the number of views, or followers or awards…it is finding wonderful people around the world that you can become familiar to one another & then pen pals.  You can learn things from other people, learn about their towns, their history… I found this written to me…