feed me

yesterday’s pick. i bring the BIG tomatoes in just as they begin to turn red because in Alabama heat, if left outside to ripen, they boil & burst. 🙂 besides, green tomatoes are DELICIOUS! We put them on our pizza, pastas, BLT’s or we leave them to ripen on the kitchen table.

eclectic mix of architecture & why i’m scared to go downtown

I’ve tried twice to capture the amazing mix of architecture of downtown Birmingham. The first time, i went downtown on a Sunday morning, with a friend who grew up in Paris. I had my Nikon with me & gave my friend an older one. As we came around a corner, we were confronted by a…

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the Showplace of the South

The Alabama Theatre is an amazing place inside. I hope to show my own pictures of it someday. Sorry about the quality, i took these with a hot mid afternoon sun with my iPhone.

we got a puppy!!

Cole is hiding between my knees because Nala walked into the room.  Nala grrrrrrr-ed at him because he was chewing on her toes. He is learning. The injury to his ear was there when we got him, i think a sibling must have done it. He weighs 4.5lbs & is 2.5 months old.  My kids…

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peeking over purple

i gotta say adding fuzz to an insect really makes them pretty darn cute. sorry he’s a little soft (ha, a pun…i meant focus)

aloe with a bow

this is a wee flower from a Kalanchoe plant. the flowers grow so tightly together, that when i tried to show how beautiful the flower is, it just looked like an orange blob. so i picked one. NOW, you can see how spectacular it is.

my daughter creates

my daughter has spent the last few days making colorful circles. i gave her sky blue matt board for her to put the circles into her design. my daughter, three years ago, created a stained glass & sharpie art work that has gotten over 100,000 views. she hasn’t made anything much since then, so i’m…

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funky echinacea

i wanted to buy these for the garden so badly. i didn’t b/c they cost twice as much as regular pink echinacea.

a walk to the pool

and still i managed to get 2nd degree burns on my chest…i counted the blisters….15 mini ones.