Merry Christmas

I have been so busy lately that I just have not had much time to post or even to take a lot of photos this month, and I’m sorry I haven’t visited anyone else lately either. But my decorating, shopping and wrapping is finally finished.. and I wanted to post and wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a very blessed and happy holiday.

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Merry Christmas!

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Happy 4th of July

Wishing everyone a happy holiday weekend!

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It’s hot!

You know it’s hot when a lizard tries to take a nap on a block of ice! :)

I had a large block of ice to dispose of the other day, and since it has been so very hot and dry here lately, I put it near a clump of coneflowers in one of my flower beds — to let it melt and seep into the soil. A few minutes later, I had to go in and get my camera after I noticed this lizard literally clinging to the cold surface. He sat there for a long time and even tried to climb up on the ice. He lounged there for a half hour! lol He moved off the ice several times, taking a break from the cold, but he stayed within inches of it and returned again and again until it melted away.

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The lizard resting against the ice

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Enjoying the cold

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Taking a break nearby

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Happy Summer

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon;
to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
-Henry James

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
-Sam Keen

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that it’s fresh young beauty will ever fade.
-Gertrude Jekyll

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Happy Summer!

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