weekend shots

I am loving this spring weather in Tennessee!  On Saturday, Katie Bug and I took a walk.  I had been wondering of the top field was full of buttercups and if the iris had popped up yet.  No iris yet but the buttercups were giving quite a show.  My winter blues have dissipated as warm weather is here.  Even if we have another cold snap or two I know we are headed for warm nights and hot days!!

 

The dog toothed violets popping up.

My pretty little Rattlesnake wild orchids.



Around Here

We've had so much rain that the fairy ring in the front yard came up.

Almost a full circle. 

 

Last Saturday, Katie Bug and I decided to take a break and chill out at the creek for a bit.

My camera was steamed up is was so hot out.

 

Maybe when the dove book is finished, which hopefully it will be this weekend, I can take more time for myself.  My work hours have picked up to about sixty a week which is good for business but bad for play time for Laurie. 

 



weekend shots

Well if I don't have time to share everything I want to I will at least share a few shots from weekends here and there!  I actually am planning on sharing our "summer camp week" at the day care with you but it is a lot to share and this is day one so I may get it ready for it all to start a different day.  I am having so much fun with it too!  Here are a few from the last day or two.  I had an awesome weekend full of time spent with friends and family and then a little of just us on Sunday trying to catch up from all the visiting. 

 

Me... the happy canner... put up twenty three half pints of Georgia peach preserves. 

Summer in a jar will be tasting mighty sweet this winter.

 

I got the peaches from The Peach Truck fresh from Georgia last week.

Check them out to see if they visit your area!

Or you can have them shipped anywhere.

 

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Recent Shots

Well howdy doo.  It's been a couple of weeks since my last confession... I mean post.  As I posted a little bit ago I have had some computer problems and for a couple of weeks I ignored my computer and left it at home instead of taking it to work with me and getting frustrated.  Then I took it to my repair guy where it spent several days and I got it back last week.  In all truth I have enjoyed not having it for the most part.  I've read a couple of books and colored in my coloring book to pass the time during naptime.  I even sat out on the back porch and worked on my farm girl tan... you know arms and calves with my face covered of course. 

Since I've been gone I have had a niece graduate from college, have started walking the driveway at day break again, have had an Amish couple come up for a possible wild herb class to be held here, I've planted seedlings and bulbs, had more ticks attached to me than ever and haven't finished my quilt!  Plus we finally bought a new gas grill that I am thrilled about.  It's been busy as ever around here.  Hopefully we will get the garden planted this coming long weekend although I wish we were going camping somewhere.  If we could pull the camper down to the creek camp sight I would be thrilled and pretend I was on vacation! 


Killdeer Nest and Eggs

My quilt top finished.

A couple of the graduation party.

A morning walk in the creek.

No wonder my feet like to have froze when we went four wheeling.  They held water the second she hit the creek.

weekend shots: spring walks

This past weekend Katie Bug and I decided it would be a good idea to check out the woods.  It's funny that the winter/spring that we didn't have a dog I don't really remember going for walks in the woods much.  Something about having a pal along.  And that Kate... once she knows that I have stopped for a minute, my attention elsewhere, she jets through the woods running around, up and down the hills and splashing in the creek.  Saturday we walked down below the waterfall where the bigger creek meets our branch, where the water gets deeper (no more than a couple of feet but over my boots), and once Bug realized she had permission she was all in.  I walked around the bottoms below Chipmunk Bluff (I have names for areas of our land) and Kate swam, each not really paying each other much attention but having a great time by ourselves with the security that we were both nearby. 

Over the two walks, I wound up spying three wildflowers blooming that I've never seen before.  I took pictures and have a Tennessee wildflower book on it's way from the library to hopefully identify them.   I also found a pretty old Mason jar with a very rusty lid and a piece of an arrowhead... oddly within a foot or so of a spot where I've found one before.  No mushrooms to report in my findings.  Maybe next year.  Please enjoy these shots from our walks.

I love the ferns lining the creeks.

This one reminds me of Pepper Jean.  She always walked in the creek with such purpose.

Firepinks.

Don't know this one.

Firepinks.

Of all the walking I do in our woods this is the first snake I've seen this year.  I'm sure it's not the first snake that has seen me.  I almost stepped on this little guy in the creek.  He wasn't but maybe a foot long... maybe.  When I am in "their home" I feel I have no right to kill them.. unless maybe I am being threatened I guess.  Now if they are in my home... or chicken pen... or shop... or day care... different story.  I've not seen one like this before.  Maybe I ought to check out that snake book from the library again.

Tater Bug at our waterfall.

I think this is almost my favorite picture from this trip.  Just something about it.

Mom... something is telling me to ask you what this is.   Seems more like a misplaced shrub that's grown tall under the trees than just something wild.  I could be very wrong.

Remember this nest I found a few months ago?  Don't know if it's builders will use it again this year or not.  Doesn't appear that way for now.  It's pretty well built to last through this past winter.