As promised, here's a picture of my new kindle
. Love that red cover! I finished reading Freedom
, Oprah's book pick. The characters changed over the course of the story and they all surprised me. I wonder why Oprah picked it. Jonathan Franzen wouldn't go on her show when she picked his other book, The Corrections.
. Love that red cover! I finished reading Freedom, Oprah's book pick. The characters changed over the course of the story and they all surprised me. I wonder why Oprah picked it. Jonathan Franzen wouldn't go on her show when she picked his other book, The Corrections. I have new books loaded on the kindle, but the days of sitting on the porch swing in the sunshine are coming to a close for the season. I'll have to settle for a place on the couch in front of the fireplace for the next few months :)
There's never a way to pick to pick my favorite entry. (It's like the garden. Most any flower at it's peak bloom time is my favorite.) This entry is from the Lincoln Ladies at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. I think mannequins display them better than a hanger. 
I went to work for a few hours this morning, then came home and worked in the flower shop this afternoon. Early evening fishing/reading with Mark, Taste of Thai for dinner and Dancing with the Stars on the TV. All in all, a really nice Monday!
My new kindle isn't in this picture for some reason. I got to spend a lot of time with it while we were on vacation! 
was my very favorite book of the week--Michelle Huneven tells the story of a woman who must live with her guilt after she running over two people while she was drunk. It was a great story. 
by Laura Lippman. It's a story about a woman who was abducted when she was a teenager and the man who was put on death row for the crime. It was an interesting story and I was surprised by my judgments while reading it. Overall a good read. 
was about a kooky crazy mixed-up family who owned a florist in Memphis during the Elvis years. One of the characters sent a dozen roses to Elvis every day. . . Don't you miss Elvis? Everytime I remember that he's gone, I always think that he was just gone too soon and wonder what he would have been doing these days. . . 
Mark caught fish after fish after fish last week. Except for a couple of windy days, the weather was perfect all week. Today it's back to the ranch for us. Yay!
This was one of my reading/writing spots by the lake last week. It was a beautiful week. . . gorgeous weather, good books, got to see some family, down-home cooking. . . Still, it's awfully good to be back home again :)
A couple of my favorite recent pictures from Rachel's facebook album. They make me smile every time I look at them :) :) :)
What is that little spotted ground cover in there?? So cute. Wonder if the rabbits would think I planted it for them . . . and wonder if it could stand up to goldens chasing rabbits through it. . . Sigh. Well, I can just run through the drive-through at the bank and enjoy it there!
And how about a name for these great double double orange zinnias? These I could grow. Every year TBHITWW circles the cutting garden with a foot-tall fence that keeps out the rabbits and the goldens :)
Okay, don't laugh. And don't go "ewwww. . . fake flowers in a container. . .I'd never do that!" Here's the scoop. I didn't get around to buying a water plant for mama's crock this summer. And I had all these permanent botanicals (sounds so much better than fake, right?), so I just gathered them all up with a few squiggles of wire and I'm telling you, this was the best-behaved container in my yard this year. It bloomed every single day. It never asked for water. And if you could see the other containers in my yard, you'd vote for this one too :)
So much going on in this picture! The pink camo, the hello kitty on the back of the tricycle, Kyle's on his feet! and the Cub hat!! Looks like they were having fun. We miss them so much, can't wait to see them again. Thank you to Rachel for taking pictures and helping us be there across the miles <3
Inspired by our anniversary this weekend, I wanted to make a wedding bouquet with big fat open roses and heavenly-smelling stephanotis. Maybe this will become an annual tradition. A wedding bouquet and a cake!
These beeaaauuuuutiful pillows are by the artist Peggy, also known as my mom. She made them for my friend Tracy to give as a housewarming gift to her cousin. But Tracy and I both are thinking we should have kept them for ourselves! The quilt in the background is one of my favorites, given to me by--of course--my mama!
