The flower purchase this week was these nice purple and white variegated carnations. I also got some plain white carnations to mix with these in the vase. When you get close to these, you can smell a delightful, sweet fragrance. Click on the image to enlarge.
On our trip to do grocery shopping yesterday, I bought two bunches of Gerbera daisies for the vase in the great room. They had several colors, but I bought the orange and yellow ones because the colors blend nicely and brighten up the room. Click on the image to enlarge.
Before we did our usual shopping on Thursday, Bob brought home some white daisies for the vase, When we did go shopping, we bought some yellow ones to go with the white. These now grace our great room on the sofa table. Click on the image to enlarge.
Every once in a while, I get to capture an image that ranks right up there with some of Damsel’s best photos. This time, it was purely unintentional, in that I went out to photograph some shrubs with a before photo before I started on trimming them. When I got out to the palo verde where Damsel had decorated the green tree with some red Christmas ornaments for the season, a butterfly suddenly came out of nowhere and posed on one of her ornaments. Chalk this one up to luck – AND the fact that there are still butterflies, songbirds, humming birds and other critters that remain here in spite of the cooler temperatures. We LOVE Arizona! Click on the image to enlarge.
I like to decorate our mailbox with plastic flowers. I just changed out the autumn colors with these pretty poinsettias for the Christmas season. There is an antique milk can surrounding the mailbox post that is filled with sand. It makes a handy place to put the stems of the flowers into. Click on the image to enlarge.
Since we have a smallish house, we won’t be putting up a massive Christmas tree as we did in the old house. Instead, we have a little tabletop tree with lights and ornaments miniaturized. I always like to bring out a couple of my cute little troll dolls to add to the festive mood. Click on the image to enlarge.
This is a view of the setting moon that I took yesterday morning from the driveway. I liked the way the moon floats among the sky textures of cloud formations and a contrail remnant. Click on the image to enlarge.
Why haven’t we posted anything for a week? The answer is complex, but suffice it to say that our plate has been rather full of good busy things and a bad one or two.