Scavenger Hunt Sunday The June 24, 2012 Edition

Well, I told myself I wasn't going to participate this week...thought the prompts were a little too difficult and then last night I thought what the heck, might as well give it a try.  Yesterday our local garden center had a day of gardening talks, music, and artists with wares to purchase, so naturally I took my camera along and captured some goodies.  In looking over the list of challenges this week, I was able to match a photo to each one....some are a bit of a stretch, but nevertheless, a match.  Here are the challenges:

• Warped
• Concentric Circles
• Gear
• Glazed
• Marble

They (whoever they are) had to warp these pieces of metal to produce these bits of garden art...

Concentric Circles - I have a couple of pics for this prompt.  I think I know what concentric circles are...tell me if I am wrong, but aren't they overlapping circles??  It's been a long (eons) time since I have studied concentric anything....


I think the fish has all those lovely concentric circles all over it's body....

And the rose in the center of this sweet necklace that I purchased from one of the artist's must also have concentric circles...  Ok enough of this arithmetic, or geometry or math or whatever category you place concentric in...it is not one of my attributes.

Next up Gear....now this is where I stretch it a bit....


I do believe a bee must take all his GEAR with him when he gathers pollen, right??

I told you that was a bit of a stretch, but heh, it works.


Next up glazed....OK, ofcourse there is glazed pottery at a garden center, but I do believe the woman is a bit glazed over herself.  Looks like she may have been looking for a glazed red look on that last dye job.  Doesn't she have a good friend that will tell her that is definitely not her best color??  Oh, Deanna, that was mean, every once in awhile I get this nasty streak in me....I am sure she is a very sweet lady.  She just happened along just about the time I was shooting those glazed pots.  I couldn't help it.   

OK, now the last one and again I stretched this a bit...but they are pretty pictures anyway...


Marble - don't these look like shiny marbles on this pretty little piece of garden art??

Or perhaps this birdbath was made out of marble and not ceramic...I definitely think it is marble.

OK, that's it for another week.  Whew, that was a hard one.  This is summertime when the living is supposed to be easy.  


Linking to Ashley's Scavenger Hunt Sunday ....hop on over and take a peek.  I can hardly wait until I see how others gathered these prompts.  Getting awfully close to Ashley's due date, bet she is getting overjoyed with her new little one due so soon.  



Until next time....

5:15 AM

When you wake up at 5:15 AM and suddenly realize that you left the sprinkler on ALL night, this is what greets you.....

Have a good one.....

"A garden isn't meant to be useful.  It's for joy."  ~  Rumer Godden


Until next time...

Little Needles on Your Tootsies

This past week was really, really hot.  I am not complaining, well yes I am...because it was so hot and windy that it has totally dried up all the lawns and the flower gardens are struggling and it isn't even July!!  In reading other's blogs it seems to be raining in so many places, so could you please be kind and push some to us here in the midwest?  We would certainly appreciate it and I feel sure you would like to see sunshine again where you are.  I am a barefoot girl in the summertime, but when the grass is so dry that it feels like little needles on your tootsies, it is definitely time for some rain.  Please God..., pretty please.

So to drown my sorrows of no rain, I dropped Toby off at the hair salon for his summer cut and I headed out shopping.  I shopped and shopped and shopped...what with 3 new bathrooms to fill, I had so much fun.  Money be damned....ha I will probably regret that later, but it has been a long time since I have updated anything.  And where I live there are plenty of shopping opportunities.  I dropped some cash at Home Goods, Steinmart and Pier One.  All great places for accessorizing just about anything.  Here is just a peek at a purchase or two....

Spotted this cute little metal chair and thought  it would be perfect for the bathroom upstairs to stack towels on...still have the price tag on, just in case I look at it a second time and decide it might not be the right decision.  You can also see the new wall color....a yellow, a bright yellow I might add.  When the painter began painting this on the wall I was a little surprised at how BRIGHT it was.  Oh well, everyone needs sunshine in their lives and this will bring me sunshine everyday and everynight.

This is the downstairs powder room off of the family room.  You can see the paint is still in the yellow family, but a little softer, exactly matches the wall-paper in the family room.  I found this lady at Home Goods thought she deserved a spot in the new bathroom, altho she might complain later when she realizes there is no window in that room and she will pretty much be in the dark a lot of the time.  I am using bronze, wire/metal and whites in this bath so felt she should join this group.

Today is Photo Art Friday over at Leanne's and she requested Roses this week because it is her birthday and roses happened to be her favorite.  Unfortunately I was not able to photograph any roses this week, but I do have some dried rose petals that I saved because they were such a lovely color.  So, Leanne, Happy Birthday and hope you get more than just petals for your birthday.

"No one but yourself can make your life beautiful.  No one can be pure, honorable and loving for you."  ~  J.R. Miller


Until next time...