Willy Nilly Friday 5 - May 28, 2021

 Happy Friday!

 

It's been awhile since I've posted for WILLY NILLY FRIDAY FIVE 

so today I'm going to join in.  Although Tom doesn't run the blog hop anymore you can still post photos for it.

 

1.  May Day flowers - This is just one of the two May Day baskets that I was lucky enough to receive.  This one my sweet hubby gave me.

2. 

I've always thought it was fun to see birds sitting on wires.  -  Check out the video below of what one man did with birds sitting on wires.

3.Just a stray kitty that shows up occasionally to eat the cat food we leave out.  This one is very skittish so I took this shot through the window as it was leaving the front porch.

4. Dragon Lily - Dracunculus vulgaris

 

My granddaughters boyfriend told me about this plant that grows near where he lives and I waited patiently until it bloomed.  He described what the flowers would look like and I google (stinky purple flowers) and eventually found out what this plant is.  It's Dracunculus Vulgaris - It apparently smells bad and attracts flies, it's also toxic so in handling it you should wear gloves.  I think it's pretty cool looking though.

 

5. Goosey Lucy - Spotted peaking out front a fence on.

6.  Bonus shot:  Haven't shared much about our newest family member, Darby the dog.  So here is a picture of him and Coleen.

 

He's going to start some training next Friday and hopefully he will learn some manners.  He's the sweetest dog but needs help learning what is good behavior and what is bad behavior.

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Wordless Wednesday - June 27, 2018

Welcome! Joining WORDLESS WEDNESDAY today.

                                           CONTEMPLATION

        Okay so it's not totally "wordless" but it works.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday - April 13, 2014

Welcome! - I hope you've all had a wonderful week.  It's been a good (but busy) one here.  The weather though has been lovely and that's made me very happy.

I've missed a couple of weeks of Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Hosted by Ashley (Ramblings & Photos). I wanted to make sure and participate this week.

Here are the prompts:  Neglected,  Signs of Spring, Last Thing You Bought,
Shadow, and Four Things.

Let's get started:  Click to Enlarge Photos.

NEGLECTED:

There is a house about a block away from us that a tree fell on during a windstorm back in 2008 that has remained vacant & is up for sale but nothing has been done to repair the damage from the storm and the yard is over run, neglected.  I went down today and took some pictures of the place. Here is one showing some of the neglect.

SIGNS OF SPRING:

This is farming country (also wine country) and around here Green Fields are signs of spring.

             A wheat field with the Blue Mountains in the background.

Here is another sign of spring:

Take a close look,  this little sparrow is building a nest and has twigs in it's mouth.

LAST THING YOU BOUGHT:  Today I bought more stuff to make another one of these:

because this one that I made today is already gone!  It's Monkey Bread and the recipe I used can be found by clicking on the link.

SHADOW:  There not much of a shadow in this photo but I can say that whenever I'm outside and he's outside he is pretty much my shadow following me everywhere.

                                                        -Ghost-

FOUR THINGS:  I didn't know if we needed 4 different things or 4 of the same thing for this one but I went with 4 of the same thing.

                              Tulips in my mom's flower garden

So that's it for this week's Scavenger Hunt.  Do stop by and check out the other participants and consider joining in as well.