Friday Fun 4-3-15

Hello & Happy Friday. - I'll be participating today in the following Memes:

 

Feline Art    -   Feline Friday   -   Orange You Glad It's Friday   -  

Random 5 Friday    -  Six Word Friday   &   Willy-Nilly Friday 5. 

Please click on the highlighted link to be taken to that link-up. 

 

 

 

1.  I love Spring -  It's my favorite season of the year (followed by Fall, Summer and Winter in that order).  So yesterday for Good Fences I had posted a picture of a fence with some tulips in the background.  I promised to show them off better today so here they are.  -  These are also part of Six Word Friday where the word was (Break) this week.

 

Break forth, Oh Joy of Spring

 

 Your beauty makes my heart sing!

 

2.  Coleen and I enjoy taking photo walks/drives to see what we can find.  Yesterday she spotted something in a yard and walked over to see what it was.  She called me over and look what she found.

 





 Isn't that fun.

3.  I enjoy creativity and seeing how talented people can be.  A friend sent me some pictures of some artwork that I think you might enjoy.  Click on this link to see Chalk Art by David Zinn (Street Art Utopia)  I had a little fun of my own with some digital art.  See below:

A lawn ornament we spotted in someone's yard - Edited on BeFunky.  My entry for Feline Art Friday this week.

                                             Original photo - SOOC

4.  With the nice weather comes lawn mowing (thank goodness our Son-in-Law, Kelly now mows the lawn for Mike & my mom) and weeding.  I trimmed rose bushes back last week as they took a really hard hit with the cold snap this past Novemeber.  I'm happy to report that new green shoots are coming up from the bushes but it will be sometime before we have roses this year.  Yesterday I snapped off a dead piece on one bush and it broke off and slammed my hand into another piece of dead wood with lots of thorns....Ouch! 

So here is another find from our walk.  Anyone know what this plant is?  Coleen said it had thorns (I didn't look to see if it did or not).  It does not however look like a rose bush.

These are my photos for Orange You Glad It's Friday (Life's Sweet and Spices) which I haven't participated in for some time.  I think they are gorgeous blooms.

5.  You know the song, Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones, right?  - If not there is a line that goes:  "I see a Red Door and I want to Paint It Black." in the song.  Every now and then I see Red Doors on houses around town and I'm reminded of that song.  So imagine my surprise when we spotted this door on our walk:

Does this remind you of a song or something else.  Share your thoughts.

Bonus:  On our walks we often encounter people's cats and we stop to take pictures of them if we can.  This little beauty belonged to the people who live in the house above.  She started towards us but got shy when the owner opened the door so I didn't get to many shots of her.

I've always wanted an "all-white" cat but have never had one.  So last week I asked for people to give my cat photo a caption & sadly no one did.  So here's your chance again.  Please give this photo a caption and I'll choose the best one and post the winning caption on my blog next week.

This is also being shared for Feline Friday (The Burnt Food Dude)






So that's it for this week. I'm not sure if Tanya is doing Willy-Nilly Friday Five this week as she hasn't posted for it yet. Just click on the link to her blog and hopefully she'll put it up. Happy Easter!

Good Fences #54 - Fences and Tulips

Hello & Welcome. - It's been a lovely week here with beautiful springtime weather.  I'm happy to report that I'm feeling much better, my mom is doing okay but her cold still lingers on.  The best news is that my husband is doing quite well and while he still has some stiffness and soreness in his joints he is able to get around and has gone back to work.  We praise God for His blessings and we thank all of you who faithfully prayed for us during this time.

Now let's join Theresa (The Run-a-round Ranch Report) for the very fun meme:  GOOD FENCES.  You'll see fences of all type from all over the world and have a good time so don't forget to stop by and check it out.

Yesterday after Coleen got home from school we took a walk up the block from our place and discovered some wonderful and delightful fences paired with gorgeous flowers.  I hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

This one sits across the street from us.  The house is for sale but the grounds have been kept up so nicely even though the place is vacant.  The tulips look so pretty against the weathered wooden fence.

What a lovely yard this was.  The split rail fence looks nice and the back ground flowers just added to the charm of this wonderful yard.

This fence was a copper colored metal fence with a string of lights around it and darling arbors.  The flowers were equisite here.  I'll be sharing pictures (close-ups) of those tulips in the background tomorrow so be sure to check back.

So there you have it some fabulous spring flowes and fences to show them off.  -  Have a great day.

Good Fences - Two-Fer (Weeks 52 & 53)

Hello & Welcome.  - I must say it's been quite a week here.  We are still dealing with health issues for my husband (although he is feeling better) and for my mom & myself.  Both my mom & I have caught bad colds with a nasty cough yet again so we've been under the weather.  -  Plus on top of that I learned that my mom fell in her bathtub late last night.  She's okay, sore & a bit bruised but now we will need to figure out how to prevent that from happening again.  -  It seems like things just keep piling up on us but I am trying to "hang in there" as they say. 

With that said let's join Theresa (The Run-a-round Ranch Report) for some fun with GOOD FENCES.   I missed last week so I'm going to do both weeks here with a couple of different fences.

Last weeks:

 

Spring daffodils from behind a fence.  The next shot is a little closer view.  I spotted these in a little alleyway/street on the way to taking Coleen to school.  I thought they were cheery looking and fitting for spring.

 

 

This next fence I spotted on one of my neighborhood walks one day.

 



It's not a very big fence but I thought it looked interesting enough to share.

My favorite feature on the fence.....

I hope you've enjoyed these two different fences.  Don't forget to check out all the other great fences from around the world.

Have a great day.