cleaning up a bloggy mess

i am creating a new website. new software. new focus. the blog that i imported is a MESS. so i am posting some photos here that i love and have NO IDEA when they were taken. but honestly, i wouldn't mind seeing some fall leaves and some rain on this dry, 95 degree july day!

residual ice

today it rained

today it rained

like tears

for one 

who died

gifted, giving

gone

i know 

this winter rain 

brings green and new

spring

like 

these tears

bring healing

acceptance

growth

but for today

the sky and i 

weep

 

maybe i was wrong

i was enchanted by the photos of the white stuff, falling everywhere but here. desperate for a bit of fluff. to step deep into winter and give myself to it.
but i was wrong. this little chocolate vine, new last spring, popped up and said hi, reminding me that i don't live in the dormant. i live for the spring.

photo a day...waiting in the rain

photo a day...last night and this morning

this is last night's
weather
and drawing















and this is from our tangle of beauty
morning walk

photo a day...the colors of today

you big tease

give it up, will ya?

photo a day...two stories

 this is in focus and yes, that is rain!

 small limbs rained down...

 hm, wasn't tthere was a curb and corner and street and everything here just 10 minutes ago...

 the other top story from here today...finished bracelets... pearls, shells and czech glass on crocheted copper wire

 this one is crocheted silver wire, looks like fish net to me, outlined with beach glass, pearls, mother of pearl, czech glass and a few other goodies. finished with some pretty fab silver chain.

the rain comes and goes. blue but clouded skies. sun. torrential rain. the blue skies, like now as i post this...

photo a day...did i mention it is raining?

it rained so hard, i just sat in the car, trying to capture how complete this experience was...knowing all the while that i couldn't. but i love the way the camera caught the hard rain...little white slashes in the air.

photo a day...sun shower

photo a day...fourthing it with friends

new friends came

      my niece's (beauty on left) bestfriend (beauty on right) came...and i adopted a new niece!

                             my sister (beauty on left) and her best friend (beauty on right) laughed

                                                                        friends competed

                                                  friends put friends to hot grill master work

then it was time to go home...

 and this is what our drive looked like...don't worry...i was far too focused trying to see to take this shot. i have never seen so many cars pulled over and so many people with their hazard lights on. 

no fireworks tonight!

everyone safe and sound. a good day.