Tag: Birmingham

old trains pass by

this bottom train car has been turned into a business. how cool are they?

rectangles float

i found this while in search of another image…love it. can i say that?

when i was me…

i’m from Vermont. i grew up with SAABs, Volvos, Subarus & JEEPs…for the snow. My family was a Volvo fan…except for me. Oh, i LOVED SAABS. the one above was my second SAAB…paid in full, title in my name, with only 60,000 miles on it (brand new) the station wagon was awesome because the Huskies…

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if you stand too long…

…in Alabama’s red dirt, you will become green. and i’ve heard it aint easy being green.

mixed signals

you know…i have come to find i like signs telling me what to do. because i’m at the age where i walk into a room & forgot why. Perhaps i should start putting post it notes on my forehead so that i know what i’m doing. ~amy  

the shy one

So shy, is the Lentin Rose…i try hard to find a point of a spring flower who fears the sunlight. these are forced, with wire, to face me. a bit like putting a finger under the chin of a small child, to lift the face & be astonished by their beauty. happy spring Alabama

the grocery store

These were taken at Western Supermarket. The great thing about walking into this flower departments is that it is almost all natural light. Another bonus? The fridge walls are black, which mean awesome contrast.

Fuego Cantina & Saloon…

#buylocal…i’m in awe of private local business owners. they deserve much respect for their kick ass courage. but more than that, they deserve our custom, our support. imagine how awesome it would feel to drink locally owned beer(s), in a locally owned Saloon..sit back & watch what they do best, which is serve up some…

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this is an african violet flower

i posted this flower about three weeks ago, titled, “what am i?” Then my blog broke. This is the amazing part, this one flower was connected to another…like the letter Y, with two flowers at the top of the Y. This wee flower lived for two weeks…as it began to collapse on itself, its twin…

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