SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY + SONG-OGRAPHY 2.16.14

 

SHS 2.16.14

posting with Ashley at Rambling & Photos

this week's SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY words are:

CAMOUFLAGED, NUTTY, OLD STYLE, HAPHAZARD & MONOCHROMATIC

can you see the hummer? this guy is CAMOUFLAGED by the foliage of the trees.

 looks like a piece of corn, but let's pretend he's eating a NUT!

horseshoes ~ an OLD STYLE game!

this cactus is very HAPHAZARD!

lucky me! I caught a MONOCHROMATIC sunrise...

 

And, I'm stopping by YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT, for SONG-OGRAPHY.

Like many of you buried in snow, Kathy needs some sunshine & blue skies...

This week's song is by Meatloaf, "I'd Do Anything for LOVE"

Oh, I'd fly to the MOON? 

{ummm, after seeing the movie, GRAVITY, I don't know}

I'd hop a plane & travel to places that stretch our minds & bodies

{even, humid locations, like the Amazon River}

I can't really think of anything I WOULDN'T DO for JPE!!!

HAPPY HEART'S DAY...

Enjoying a l-o-n-g weekend of quiet!

JPE is in OHIO visiting this dad & trudging around in the snow!

Playing with my camera!

Rearranging!

Watching some HGTV!

Reading some blogs!

Eating some juicy, sweet "cuties"

(tangerines)

another three days off!

 

GOOD.RANDOM.FUN. {WEEK 6}

2.7.14

outside our lunchroom door

2.6.14
leaves caught in a lovely web!

2.9.14
we drove through Cal-Poly & found the new "babies"

posting with Tamar @ Random-osity

PHOTO-HEART CONNECTION {January 2014}

Packing up holiday decorations is bittersweet! We always enjoy having our home decorated with holiday treasures... it was especially exciting this year because Katie & my Mom came for a visit over my birthday weekend... they both oohed & aahed over the tree, ornaments, lights, and miniature houses!

Even though the majority of our decorations are my Santa collection & JPE's holiday-lit houses... we always display these two items as remembrances of my dad and JPE's mom.

Before my dad moved to an Alzheimer's care facility, he would spend an occasional day at care facility while my mom ran errands. This snowflake ornament is a treasured memory from one of his craft-days! 

The basket of ornaments were created by JPE's mom. Although I knew her for only five years before she passed, I quickly learned how much she loved decorating for the holidays. Her grown children & grandkids meant the world to her, and it pleases me to have her hand-crafted ornaments to put out at Christmas.

A few weeks ago, we had some friends over for dinner! they'd never been to our house, so we  gave them a "peek" at condo living. At the end of a fabulous dinner (created by JPE), Cindy said, "your house is filled with treasures that have stories or memories attached to them. It creates such a cozy feeling!"

What a nice reflection! we don't keep much that is NOT MEANINGFUL to us. Living small, we have to rotate our treasures... but, we never grow tired of seeing them from a new perspective each time they appear in our decor.

Posting with Kat Sloma at KatEye Studio...

visit her blog to learn about Photo-Heart Connections.

GOOD.RANDOM.FUN. {WEEK 5}

:: GOOD ::

Yesterday, we

FINALLY had a touch of rain!

:: RANDOM ::
a bit of bird-watching - out the kitchen window!
{same hummingbird putting on a show}

:: FUN ::
pillow created by my mom & given to Allie, her granddaughter.
Allie created the paper quilt on a painted canvas
{hanging over the bed}
lucky to have such talented ladies in my family!

posting w/Tamar at Random-osity!

SONG-OGRAPHY + SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY 2.214

Chinatown, San Francisco

talked to SLE this afternoon as she was walking home from yoga... the snow was melting into puddles...
our phone conversation reminded me of my last trip to Washington DC!
Katie, Mom & I spent five days exploring... Katie probably felt like she
WALKED A THOUSAND MILES!

sharing this photo with
Kathy at You'll Shoot Your Eye Out

also stopped by Ashley's for

SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY

this week's words:

BEVERAGE, SNUGGLE, THICK, BEHIND THE LENS & WHERE WERE YOU?

BEVERAGE of choice... coffee w/a splash of non-fat milk!

elephant seals in a SNUGGLE... the "pups" are molting!

JPE's compost is THICK with worms...

nothing like traveling... to put me BEHIND THE LENS!

wondering WHERE I WAS?
in Sacramento... bleary-eyed = reading grants!

see ya tomorrow! 
at Tamar's for
GOOD. RANDOM. FUN.