Willy Nilly Friday Five - May 31, 2019

I'm Still Alive! - Wow an entire month has passed by and I'm finally posting.  Let me tell you all I really miss blogging but taking care of my mom has become pretty much a "full-time" job anymore so blogging kinda gets put on the back burner.

Anyway I'm happy to post today for Tom's:  WILLY NILLY FRIDAY FIVE
1.  I've been busy this month planting flowers and weeding etc... on of the things I did was refurbish this decorative dog that my mom keeps on her porch.  See how "sad" he looks.

Here he is all fixed up after I painted him.  Doesn't he look happy now!

 

2. Here's just a few of the many pots of flowers that I planted and put on her porch this year.

 

 

3.  Had to show at least one Lilac photo from my mom's tree.  It was loaded with gorgeous blooms this year and for a change it didn't rain and knock them all off the tree before they could finish blooming.

4.  While waiting for the "Ducky Derby"to start I snapped a few sky shots.  The annual Derby was held May 18 and you might think this is snow but it's actually fuzz off of Cottonwood trees.

 

 

Also happened to catch a plane on it's way to the airport.

 

5.  Coleen and her friend, Helen enjoying their walk up the path to where the race starts and of course some shots of the ducks on their way down the creek to the finish line.

 

 

 

 

Once again none of my ducks won any of the prizes.  I'll try again next year.

6.  Memorial Day picnic in my mom's front yard.  Lots of good food.

Bonus shots:

 Allium in full bloom.

 Took this shot in the evening and happened to notice an orange lamp in the window of the house where I shot the allium so I leaned down and captured the orange glow behind the flower.  I think it looks really cool.

Pretty Peacock feathers at the park.

That's it for this edition.  Hope you have enjoyed the photos and have a great weekend.  -  Here's to June and Strawberry season!!!









Seasons & Tuesday Treasure - July 13, 2016

 Welcome!  - Today I'm joining Jesh (St. Germain's) and Tom (The Backroads Traveller) for:





SEASONS and TUESDAY'S TREASURES - Click on the links to be taken to either Meme for the other participants entries.

Last year I attended an event here in Walla Walla known as the "Wings of Freedom Tour" - But only posted one photo taken from that event.  As luck would have it the same event was held here again this year.  So today I'm sharing a mix of photos from both last year & this year.

 

 

This is a promotional van for the tour.  I thought it was worth showing as well as the planes.

 These WWII planes were here in Walla Walla and you could take "walk-thru" tours of them.  We didn't want to pay the price to actually go inside the planes but were offered a ride in a golf cart to get up closer to them for free so we decided to do that instead.

 B24J-Liberator - (Witchcraft)

Some of the Graphics on the Liberator.

 

Another view of the Liberator

 

 

B17 Flying Fortress - (Nine o Nine)

 



 

 

Graphics on the Flying Fortress

 

 

B-25 Mitchell - (Tondelayo)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graphics on the B-25 Mitchell

 



 

P51C Mustang (Betty Jane)

 

 

 

 

 

There were some other planes owned by local people on display as well.  This is one of the By-Planes that was on display. 

 

If you click on the links next to each of the planes you'll be taken to the Collins Foundation for information about each of these restored planes.

 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing them.