Happy Independance Day Weekend

Have a great weekend everyone!

The new movie is here!

Public Enemies starts tomorrow! July 1st I know I'm old but I'm not dead. Don't know what it is, I never paid any attention to Johnny before the Pirates movies but Jack did something to me and now I just love Johnny Depp. My friend calls him "the freak" well that's ok coz I don't want to share him with her anyway. Well I'm not sure if the film will be good or not but it doesn't matter. I will live in my own fantasy for a bit over an hour and be taken away from today's troubles in to yesterdays. haha. I love films from days past so the costuming should be fun too. And my own neighboring town of Dayton will be featured since this is where Dillinger was caught.
My other all time favorite movie is Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid. Wow Robert Redford and Paul Newman. What a great pair of actors. Well I'm counting down the hours and hopefully I won't be disappointed. Oh yeah and I heard that Pirates 4 is in the works!! Maybe Jack will get the girl this time. Hope you enjoyed the eye candy!

Antique collecting my way

My guilty pleasure! If I could purchase every quilt that I love I would.



At a local antique show I decided to photograph the things I liked, since I can't buy them right now and really don't need anything else in my house. Taking photographs takes up less space and I don't have to dust this stuff!



I really enjoy booths where people organize their collectibles in groups. It makes it so much more appealing and tempting!


I don't like to cook but I enjoy pottery and the utensils add to the appeal.

This display of all the browns really caught my eye. The shapes and textures, repeated lines all make for an interesting view.

Color themes really catch a persons eye. Again, here are the repeated items and colors. Encourages purchasing more! Hence - collections!

Hope you enjoyed my day brousing and maybe you can find a nice show this weekend.

Baby Bunny and a Bad Cat!

I wanted to be like Beatrix Potter but I wanted happy stories.

But wait, her stories always had some drama! Well here is my latest.

Toby our oldest cat whom I loved at first sight when I saw him on my cousins farm was beautiful. I asked if I could keep him. Her kids were reluctant but knew he'd have a better chance at survival in town indoors than out there. (their cat's survive 2 years at the most.) So, I brought him home and enjoyed his company

Through the years he has brought me his (gifts) some pretty gruesome. This past week he has brought in 3 different aged baby bunnies. The first 2, old enough to survive and unhurt. I was able to let them go in the woods. But this time it made me mad! This one is too small and needs it's mother. I have tried to save several small bunnies throughout the years to no avail. Being someone who doesn't give up easily, my daughter and I took a trip to TSC to get some infant milk and a bottle.

We warmed some towels and put a warm water bottle in a box and off to the store!

Got the stuff, treated ourselves to ice cream on the way home for being such good Samaritans and back home to try to get the baby to eat.

First try nothing. Teeth locked shut. But warmed up the formula a bit more and he/she went to town!!!!

We are sitting here keeping it warm and giving it love before we go to bed tonight. I can only pray we do not find a stiff bunny when we wake. Here are some photos of this precious baby. Any gardeners out there just hang with us, I know they eat your stuff but life is life and I gotta try! Someday I'll tell you the story about when I took our dying pet rat to bed so it didn't have to die alone. Then I'll tell you the story of how I tried to put another pet rat to sleep coz the vet wanted $60.00 to do it! For a $5.00 rat. I don't think so. Well maybe I should have. Miranda is still scarred from the experience.

Gotta love it! If it lives I think we'll call it Thumper.
I won't mention Miranda's friend wants to name it Chicken. Kids!

Storms

Well it's June and we are still in the tornado season. Being from Xenia that is something you think about. We have had several evenings of isolated storms we have had to keep an eye on but today is just a gloomy rainy day. Yeah for my flowers and for me (I don't have to water!).

Just thought I share this image of a summer storm blowing through. Have a great day where ever you are!

Keeping in Touch With My Innerchild

I took this walk last week and have been so busy I couldn't get time to work on the images and write this story. As always I only want to share beautiful, inspiring images so sometimes like this when I see so many cool things on one walk it just takes a bit longer to get everything together. I really didn't want to go for a walk but Cooper was whining so I had to go. I came to this path I have walked hundreds of times but this day I noticed these beautiful white blooms hanging from the locust trees. The fragrance was awesome and as I looked close they looked like orchids and as I looked up they made a beautiful white canopy. I went back home to get my camera then spent the next half hour photographing things that just moved me.

Aren't these blossoms beautiful!

On one of the many blogs I visit someone was talking about fairies and as I was in the forest I came up on 2 different trees with what looks to me like fairie doors! Except one was pretty large hopefully it's not an ogre's house.

next I came upon these toadstools! Do you think maybe faries live here too? The clusters made me think of condos :).

I can see how one of my favorite children's authors Beatrix Potter came up with all of her clever stories while she spent so much time outdoors among the wildlife. I think Peter was visiting me this day too! I am so glad I have not lost touch with my child within! And I am thankful that Cooper needs walks so I get out and enjoy all that God has created for us to enjoy.

Hope you all enjoyed your Memorial Day weekend!

Lost in an endless tunnel

OK everyone, I need to apologize for being soooo late up dating. Have you ever felt like you are going down an endless tunnel and can't see the end? I have been so busy with work and helping friends and taking lots of photos I am dying to share but have had no time to sit and be quiet and write anything. I need quiet reflective time to put my thoughts down and that just isn't happening this week. I've also had lots of stress brought on by people around me (not bad people just circumstances) I have to confess that I was planning on getting a really nice set of images up here tonight but decided that I'd give myself a long needed pedicure. If my toenails got any longer they were going to cut through my leather Berks! So here I am now with fresh, soft feet but no good blog stuff for ya. Well here is a bit of eye candy of lovely blooms that will soon be gone but are gracing a lane I walk with Cooper. More on that hopefully in the next day or so.

Have a beautiful day!