Receiving flowers from a friend’s garden.
Thank you Amy!
Entertaining the perfect guest.
Pichu stayed with us for four whole days!
Finding a pony at Herman’s Produce.
Was he in a parade?
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Beauty, Country Sights, Country Thoughts, Critters, Dogs, Friends, Gardening, Horses, Uncategorized, Visitors, tagged country views, Crafts, Dogs, flowers, Friends, gardening, happiness, horse in hay, photography, visitors on September 4, 2016| 27 Comments »
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Beauty, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Fences, Home and Hearth, Look at This!, Seasons, The Land, Trees, Uncategorized, Virginia Views, tagged country living, front yard view, photography, Red Bud trees, rural Virginia, Seasons, shadows, Springtime in Virginia, trees, Virginia View, welcome spring on April 5, 2016| 13 Comments »
Posted in About Me, Awesome Fotos, Beauty, Blogging Inspiration, Country Challenges, Country Thoughts, February Perspectives, Humor, On Aging, Uncategorized, tagged Aging, Beauty, country challenges, hairstyles, humor, Profile Pictures on February 13, 2016| 35 Comments »
I have since decided to “bite the bullet” and grin and share my dark haired beauteous transformation..
I realize today’s photo does not comport with the blog profile photo which has been up for several years. I kinda liked the grey but with righteous living, my hair turned dark again.
And the shorter it gets, the darker!
Didn’t I tell you short hair would make you look and feel 20 years younger?
Posted in About Me, Beauty, Country Thoughts, Health, Humor, On Aging, Survival, tagged AARP, Aging, Beauty, beauty products, Better Selfies, doctors, Exercise, gray hair, Health, humor, mirror images, Signs of Aging, Survival, wrinkles, Youth on January 12, 2016| 59 Comments »
When I was young and wrinkle free (never mind care free), I thought the first sign of aging would be a gray hair followed by a wrinkle. I also believed the old hag image could be avoided by eating and sleeping right and using all the miracle creams advertised on television and in magazines.
Over time, there were signals that healthy living and preening were not quite succeeding:
Yes, hope is a many splendored thing, and I am still in favor of eating right, sleeping right, and exercising for energy and good looks.
I have been duly warned by the experts however, that with healthful living and of course, the most expensive beauty products, I will look 20 years younger and live long enough to enjoy 15 minutes more a day drooling in my soup.
Posted in Beauty, Health, Humor, Mysteries, On Aging, Who Me?, tagged Aging, Beauty, beauty is skin deep, Echocardiograms, Health, Hospitals, humor, Joys of Aging, Medical Tests, mystery diagnosis, Smiling, veins on November 25, 2015| 21 Comments »
Peanuts Cartoon – From http://www.thecuriousbrain.com
I know. I already told you about my swollen foot.
It is a case that should be included in the television show, Mystery Diagnosis.
But since a mildly swollen foot is admittedly a bit boring, don’t worry, it is not really the subject of this blog post.
It goes deeper than that. “It goes down deep…layer after layer after layer!”
One of the tests they did was to check circulation via a sonogram. Although I lay upon the table worrying, the technician went about her business and kept smiling. And I thought, “How cruel to keep one in suspense and grin about it.”
But I liked her cheerful attitude and painful as it was to erase the worry lines from my forehead, I dutifully grinned back.
Technicians are usually secretive and unwilling to share information, but Leigh was different.
With a great big smile she said,
Huh? Really?
“In the business, that’s what we call them, and you have beautiful juicy veins.”
She went on to say there are many people who have skinny, narrow little veins with inhibited blood flow.
I was no longer really listening but was smiling smugly.
And all the way home I smiled smugly and laughed out loud too.
Now, in the looking glass I see the usual old-er, less than star quality image. But I just have to remember this.
And Mom was right again.
Beauty is only skin deep.
I just wish I had a copy of that sonogram!
From Yahoo.com – a definition by Duude:
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Beauty, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Poetry, Trees, Virginia, Virginia Views, tagged Beauty, country photos. Virginia view, photography, trees, Weeping Willow tree, Willow on September 2, 2015| 23 Comments »
Mine is not a favorite flower, but a tree
much like a graceful waterfall
casting shade in a veil of green,
growing tall and swaying in the wind –
the magestic Weeping Willow .
Posted in Beauty, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Random Impressions, Sky Lights, View Points, tagged Cloud cover, country photo, country sky, Full Moon, Moon, Moonscape, photography, Sky Lights, Virginia View on August 31, 2015| 3 Comments »
I do not have a zoom lens and this was taken with my cell phone camera, but I like it anyway. There are so many colors in those clouds and the whole fuzzy effect is vaguely impressionistic.
Posted in Beauty, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Thoughts, Fences, Photography, Random Impressions, Seasons, Virginia, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Beauty, Country thoughts, country views, fence decor, fencelines, Fences, flowers, Lexington VA, Photo Challenge, photography, Photos, Seasons, Small Town America, Wordpress Daily Post on August 30, 2015| 13 Comments »
WordPress Daily Post Photo Challenge: From Every Angle
This week, photograph a stationary subject from three different angles.
I love this charming old fence dressed for a special occasion, calling out for admiration, “Look at me. I’m not through yet!”
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Beauty, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Photography, Virginia, Virginia Views, tagged Beauty, country photo, creekside art, flowers, moss, mossy ledge, nature, photography, rural Virginia, stream, Virginia, Virginia View, Water on August 26, 2015| 12 Comments »
Posted in Beauty, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Gardening, Memories, Photography, Poetry, Random Impressions, Seasons, Virginia, Virginia Views, tagged A Virginia View, country photos, crayon colors, flowers, Gardens, harvest moon, poetry, Seasons, Summer, summer color, summertime, Zinnnias on August 25, 2015| 13 Comments »
I am saving the crayon colors of summer
for the show is bound to end soon
in favor of Fall’s great performers
en route with a harvest moon.