Delightful Day

Today was a beautiful day.  Sunshiny bright, with a slight breeze.  I spent a lot of time outside working in the garden.  What joy it brought.  I planted tomatoes, saw tomato blossoms on tomatoes I had planted earlier.  Tomatoes have gotten sooo expensive that they have become quite the treat and I can hardly wait for my garden tomatoes to be ready to eat.  Of course no matter how how expensive tomatoes get they always taste so much better from the garden and I'm hoping for lots this summer.  Both my flower and veggie gardens seem to be taking off and doing magnificently this year.  I'm eating salads from my garden, my plants are thriving.  The picture above is an heirloom flower that I decided to try and they are blooming and thriving.
My Blanketflowers came up great this year.  I love them, they bloom from spring through several light frosts. They are always bright and cheerful and attract many kinds of insects.

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This is my favorite.  My first rose off my new rose plants.  The Benn and Jeremy planted it a couple of weeks ago and it has certainly felt at home and thrived where it was planted.
My regular camera is back in the shop being fixed again so these pictures were taken with my old point and shoot.  I really feel lost without my camera, but I decided to try to make up for it by doing a nice pretty edit on the pics and I must say I really enjoyed it.

Walden

In running my errands yesterday which included both the bookstore and the library, I realized that I did not own a copy of Walden and in fact had never read all of it.  So this being earth week I decided it would be a very appropriate book to read, a classic to make me think or so I've been lead to believe from the many quotes I have heard that have been taken from it.  So I am going to read it in fact I started to read it last night.  In going to the bookstore which was going out of business :^C  :^C (double sad face) I was able to get this new hardback copy for only $3.  I would rather have paid full price than have the bookstore go out of business but than again I probably would not have bought it which is probably one reason they were closing.  Economics is kind of a vicious circle isn't it?

Garden Salad

This really is a garden salad from my garden.  I think it is appropriate to be able to get my first spring green salad during earth week.  I know there is a lot of political stuff to go with earth week but I feel this is the best way to celebrate earth week by enjoying the bounty provided by this wonderful earth by the help of my own hands.  This salad was grown organically and contains a couple of different kinds of leaf lettuce and mesclun, raddichio, arugula, strawberry spinach ( a new plant I grew from seed to try), spinach, Chinese cabbage, curly endive, garlic chives, parsley (much more nutritious than you would think), fennel leaves, edible flowers, and wild onions (that were growing wild in the yard).  I think it's pretty wonderful.  I cut my salad cut into strips; it's just so much easier for me to toss and eat that way.  Tip for cutting salad into strips: there is always stacking and cutting with a knife, but I've found that a PIZZA CUTTER works better and faster.  I've found with small items, herbs, edible flowers, and such that scissors work really well.  I like eating salads and enjoy them, but I think I enjoyed this one more than normal, probably because I grew it and harvested it and I think I could taste all the extra nutrition from all those yummy dark greens of spring.  Savor this season of new growth and bounty.    

Earth Week

This week is earth week with Thursday being Earth day.  I found this on video on You Tube and thought it was a nice way to start the week.

There is great photography and a great song  
ENJOY

Hawke Free Childrens Library

These are the photos I was taking when I fell and hurt my knee.

After I started on the pain killers and the muscle relaxants I was really out of it and if I laid down to put my leg up I went to sleep.  Of course the doctors orders were to lay down with my feet up so I've pretty well slept since Tues.  Today was the first day where I was coherent.  Tues I called Laura and told her about falling and she told me about Hayden's day at school and how one of the teachers had told her Hayden was her favorite.  On Weds she asked about the teachers comment and I had NO recollection of the conversation at all.  Sweet Laura just said "oh, good than I get to tell you all over again."  So much better than being mad because I didn't remember.

Anyway I finally got around to editing some of the photos I took.  See Tues post for a regular front shot of the building.  This is a nicely preserved old building in downtown Griffin that is now used by the school district, I think. 

I went to take these photos because I had taken one from the stop-light and so many people liked it; I went back to get the building from several different angles.

There are times when I edit that I am surprised by which photos I like best when the edit is done.  Do you have a favorite?  If so which one?  I would be interested in knowing.

I still have other photos to edit but I think I got some pretty good shots from many and varied angles.  I hope you enjoy them.

Benn and Jeremy you tube

This past Easter when Benn was down to visit we went onto you tube and played some of our favorites for each other.  Amazingly the boys had not seen Star Trek: How it should have ended and I had not seen this tribute to John Williams. 

My first reaction was cool but someones got way too much time on their hands.  Then I was told that they got a hefty commercial contract out of it.  Maybe not such a waste of time and energy.  As I continued to think about it I thought of all the joy they brought and shared with other peoples lives.  Last to come to my mind was the joy he got in his creation.  Perhaps my thought process was backwards and the joy he received was enough and more to justify the time and effort put into this project.  Just like the joy I receive from my art is enough.  Or the joy I receive from the boys planting my flower garden is enough,  when the flowers are in bloom I want to giggle with delight upon seeing them and I hope it is enough for the boys too.
I HOPE YOU ENJOY OUR LITTLE YOU TUBE ADVENTURE TOO Read the screen as it tells which John Williams theme is playing.

Whooops!!!!

Today after going to physical therapy; I stopped to take some pictures of the old Griffin library, first known as Hawke Free Children's Library.  It is really quite an impressive old building that is now used by the school district.  I had taken a couple of pictures of it while waiting at the stop light there, but I wanted to get more pictures from different angles for a photo site I just joined Paintmyphotos this site is for photographers to share their photographs with artists to make derivative pieces from.  Something I would like to do as I started taking photos for reference for my own drawings and paintings.  I really think it would be neat to have someone choose one of my photos to paint.  I'd really like to see what they would come up with.

However I had a bit of bad luck and my bad ankle which is why I go to PT gave out from under me and down I went. HARD. Onto the concrete walkway.  I seriously twisted my knee and ankle and spent 5 hours in the ER.  They cast my knee because it was so unstable, making it even harder to walk at least for now.  Consequently I didn't have time to edit very may photos; maybe tomorrow I can.  Doesn't the temporary cast look like fun; crutches too.  Oh well at least it's temporary.