...see trees bloom tulips!

I'm not kidding. That's what it looked like to me this morning. This tree was blooming tulips...or so I thought. A closer look told me that they were just dogwood blooms cupping open. But you tell me what you think. Don't they look like tree tulips?













This is how the blossoms open:




Here is what they will look like when the petals flatten:

...start at a young age.

'Got more pictures from Mom and thought I'd share this one:


Chances are, you were not the first to ever seen this mischievous look from me. I started all that annoying playfulness at a young age!

BTW, Mom thinks that is a shoelace in my teeth.

How cute am I?!

If you are wearing shoes with laces, you'd better consider agreeing that I was simply adorable... ;)

...mourn.

My uncle passed away last night. I'm comforted by the belief that he is now with my cousin who died young from cancer. Besides being my uncle, he was a WWII vet. So, I fly this rose flag on my blog in his memory.

...scrap Lucy!

It dawned on me that Lucy fans will be missing out if they don't swing by my new Digital Art Journal Gallery blog to see the scrapbook page I made starring our favorite canine.

Here's a preview:

So, click on over to the 4.3.2009 post to see Miss Lu'.

...rock a polyester mini!

You know you are a child of the 70's when...

...you think yarn is a fashionable hair accessory.

Thanks to my Mom for sending me some fun, old pictures!

...save the screws!

Okay. So I'm a little crazy. But I'll tell you what is really crazy--throwing away 10 pounds of good fasteners! I was walking Lucy this morning when we discovered that someone had decided to throw away a bunch of perfectly good drywall screws and other nuts, bolts, and washers. What were they thinking? Well, I should give them some credit because they were put in a plastic bucket outside of the dumpster so that anyone could retrieve them. And that's exactly what I did. I took them inside and rinsed them in warm water--because the bucket was a little dirty and it had been raining. Then I sorted them out on a big towel and weighed them for fun. I will take them down to the local Habitat for Humanity resale store. After seeing a friend benefit from building a Habitat for Humanity house, I know better than to let these just get tossed in the trash!

Come on, people.

Save the screws!

...add a digital art blog!

I've created a digital art blog called "01 Digital Art Journal Gallery." It's been something I've been thinking about doing for a while. In college, I started a visual journal. Like most of my journals, I quit it early.

(I used the visual journal in my title graphic for the new blog.)

The idea has lingered with me for years. I feel the itch to create often. So, now I will post my creations in my virtual gallery for all to see. Hop on over to the new blog if you dare to dive into my digital world. I make no promises on how frequent the posts will be. Inspiration often flows in spurts...