Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

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Farewell to the Holiday Season

Well, the holidays are over for a while. For most people, the next holiday will be on Memorial Day which will be celebrated on Monday, May 30th, 2011. For us, we don’t have that schedule since we’re retired, but the busiest times are before us now, what with furnishing and landscaping a new home and preparing our old one for eventual sale.

I removed the poinsettias from the house and will plant them in the garden soon. I took this photo while this one was still in the pot. Click on the image to enlarge.

poinsettia.jpg

02 Jan 2011 by Culture Home & Garden Photography

First Light – Southwestern Sconces

night-sconce.jpgThe final inspection is now complete on our new Arizona home. The contractor poured the concrete for the driveway yesterday and we had the first bed delivered to one of the little bedrooms. Things are moving right along.

The outdoor sconces are all installed and they are so beautiful! I took a picture of one of them on the shady side of the house with the light turned on and Bob doctored the resulting photo to simulate twilight. This is how they should look when the sun goes down. Click on the image to enlarge.

29 Dec 2010 by Arizona Home & Garden Photography Retirement

Native American Bear Sconces

bear-sconce.jpgI hoped that we would be able to post photos of my beautiful outdoor lighting fixtures before Christmas. Thanks to the contractor building our new house, I got this photo of one of them installed this morning.

We waited until the fixtures arrived at our California house before heading to Arizona to deliver them and get them installed. They arrived on Tuesday 12/21, we delivered them to the new house (after a terrible rainy five-hour drive) yesterday, 12/22. When we drove over to the house this morning, one of the sconces was already installed.

I think it looks beautiful with the turquoise and copper highlights over the terra cotta color of the house. I hope to get a shot at night with light visible through the amber mica translucent filter. Click on the image to enlarge.

23 Dec 2010 by Arizona Home & Garden

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