flowers for a daughter’s party?

i love this soda company…i love the grape bottles for the blue hydrangea. But…wouldn’t it be cool to use an orange soda bottle with the blue hydrangea?! Opposite on the color wheel would make the whole arrangement POP!

having the Birmingham Museum of art in my backyard

with my kids home for summer vacation, we’ve turned to making crafts in the art studio. i decoupaged the cages & the sign onto an ugly birdhouse. i do have instructions for doing so…in this blog (i think the post is titled 2me4art project birdhouses). the Birmingham Museum of Art’s gift shops bags are clear…

what my garden gave me today

truthfully, the roses are from whole foods. i do have roses like the ones i’ve photographed, but the bush gives me about two a day. the strawberries? i picked from my gardens & ate them after taking their picture. the blue hydrangea is HUGE & will give me flowers for weeks & weeks.

sunlight streams through coal ash

my neighbor used a blower to clean out his grill & it looked like a dragon exhaled. the ash traveled into our backyard. it was pretty darn cool.

the southern magnolia

when i was living in Vermont, i read about life in the deep south. i read of the legendary Magnolia. moving to Alabama in 1993, i had high expectations. the magnolia is an evergreen tree. the foliage during the winter is deep, dark green, it’s leaves are glossy & firm, which is nice when everything…