I took this picture back in October of 2011. I've never seen a butterfly
with green eyes before.

Moonset in Decemember.

I took this picture looking toward the hill where the cross was
lit up for the holidays. The cross is lit starting at Thanksgiving
and stays lit until New Year's. If you've ever driven I-40 near
the Gordonsville exit, you've seen this cross. It's cool to be
able to see it from our house.

Moonset Behind Trees

Looking toward the radio tower on the hill from our back yard.

Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time!

My family...Christmas 2011.


My mom and her younguns! :0) Let's do it again next year guys!

Zinnia up close and personal.

Summer Flowers

I "heart" Zinnias :0)

Storm clouds on June 18th.


Sunset of June 27th.

Today would have been my baby brother, Rob's,
48th birthday. I love & miss you always!

Garden 2011

Our first cucumber of the 2011 garden season! It was a beauty
and tasty too. Can't wait for the maters to start cranking :0)

A Mother's Work is Never Done

I took this series of photos on May 20th as a mama Robin feeds
her three babies. The nest is in one of our cherry trees. I don't
see how that little nest held all those birds :0)


The baby bird pictured here left the nest soon after I took this
picture. The rest left a couple of days later.

Brood XIX Periodical Cicada 2011

A cicada emerging from the nymph skin.










Holes under our Bradford Pear trees where the cicadas have
emerged from underground after 13 years.


Pile of cicadas under our pear tree.


Another cicada emerging.


This cicada landed on my ankle while I was taking pictures :0)

More cicada 2011 pictures tomorrow :0) For everything you ever
wanted to know about cicadas, check out this article. It's pretty
fascinating: http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/

March 2nd Sunset

"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were
looking through the gates of Heaven." ~ John Lubbock

Feb. 12th Sunset

This was one of the most gorgeous sunsets I've seen in awhile!
It seems that winter sunsets are always more intense.







Sunset colors are typically more brilliant than sunrise colors,
because the evening air contains more particles than morning air.

Snow Covered Stuff

"January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow." ~ Sara Coleridge

A view of yesterday's snowfall through our Japanese Maple tree.
It looks like Middle Tennessee is in for more winter precipitation
tomorrow and for the weekend.


We still have Christmas lights on our Yoshino cherry
tree. We keep the lights plugged in. It looked quite
festive with the snowfall.

White Out

This is what it looked like at my house earlier today. There was
frozen precip in the forecast, but I wasn't expecting this. The
flakes were huge and beautiful and coated the grass and trees
for a short time. There was enough of the frozen stuff to get
kids in Smith county out of school two hours early.


The snow was short lived, but I enjoyed every flake :0)

Give Peace a Chance

My Peace Lily plant bloomed just in time for
the new year. Beautiful!