Lemon Cookies (recipe makes two dozen ( Read more... )

( Bought some yellow chrysanthemums at the store this morning... four pics )

( I came across a neat coin with a scalloped edge today. 2 pics. )

When you're a kid you get excited about waking up in the morning and finding presents from Santa, or that the Easter Bunny has left you colored eggs. When you're an adult you get excited that the road crew came in the night and filled in all those pesky potholes at the corners between Honeysuckle and Swift.

( Then the kid in you throws a Pothole Repair Party and serves chocolate cookies on a tray covered in crinkled tin foil. )

Once upon a time there was a tiny little pistachio sprout who lived in a black plastic bucket in a corner of the annual garden. The garden was let go and the little tree was pretty much left to fend for himself, but he didn't mind, he got plenty of rain and the other plants around him were friendly. Eventually he sent roots down through the bottom ( Read more... )

I was out taking pictures in the backyard about half an hour ago and I was blessed to see an amazing butterfly! This butterfly then proceeded to allow me to approach close enough to get some photographs...

( 2 pics of a magnificent creature )

( Self-control. I have none! )

( My pointsettias, they are home. PIC )

First two are ixora, one in partial bloom, one in full bloom. Third is a canna lily and the fourth is some tiny little blooms on a very thorny succulent of some type.

( Four Flower Pix )

( Gratuitous Cat Pictures )