More nature pictures

This group of pictures will probably be the last ones of this subject. I did take a close up of the ground where all the shells were but it had a shadow of me and I did not want that in the picture. All of these show much better if you click on them for a larger version.

This weed is the one that has the tiny white flowers, again I did not get the top right.

This is a good shot of where they have dug. A sand mine is a lot like a gravel pit. However there is much more to the process that just digging up the sand. It has to go into a shaker to remove any rocks. Then it goes through a washing and is stacked up in large piles waiting to be sold. It mostly goes to concrete companies, or to be used in road work.

This has such different colors.

And I think this is one of my favorites. This grass weed is so pretty with the sun shinning on it, again it should have been up a little more.

Remember this is the one I wanted to go back and re-do, glad i did.

Again a better shot at the bush with the white flower, also note the gradual in the background.

After seeing this picture it reminds me I wanted to get a few pictures of some of the larger rocks and maybe the plant itself .

Even though I walk alone, I am hardly the only one leaving a foot print.




Check out the prints in this last picture, mine of course and the little ones belong to a raccoon I'm pretty sure. You also see a lot of deer tacks and then there is the larger pad print that could be a bobcat, panther, coyote, or maybe just a stray dog. We have them all in this area. Also have bear over towards Tallahassee, and I would just as soon they stay there but hey that is only 70 miles from here.

Hope you enjoyed my walk. I missed going yesterday. Had a wonderful day at church, s.s. class was about WORSHIP and a.m. service was all about GIVING BACK TO GOD.

Let us all remember to worship the one who gives us life and breath and so much more.

pictures on my walk

First I want to say I am so sorry about the last post, the only thing I can figure out is I tried to move some of the pictures and then tried to edit, and as a result you had to scroll a long way before you could comment?
So I took my camera on this walk. My road has woods all along it until you come to the end where the sand mine is. I am allowed to walk around there as that is where my honey works.
I really like this type of fern that grows best on dead wood.


This grass is a weed but I thought it was so pretty with the sun light from behind.

This is posted at the corner of the sand mine.

Once you get onto the property you can see deep holes like this where they have dug.

I found it most interesting that you could find sea shells buried in this sand. I do not live anywhere near the ocean. We are in the middle of the state and almost to the Georgia line.

Wonder how many thousands of years ago this was all under water?

Another very pretty picture of a weed.

This is a close up on the next picture, of course I got them backward when I was trying to download them. I have a lot of trouble getting the pictures where I want them.

And I do not know why there is so much space in between them.

I want to go back and take this picture over. I wanted to get the top of this weed but I also wanted to get the ground, and as you can see the sky was perfect.

And last we have a different weed mixed in, it has little purple flowers. It is hard to get a good up close shot with my cheap camera.

So there you have it.

I have walked three days in a row and I hear the road calling me so before it gets to late I am off to try and go a little farther than before.

Walking is the best form of exercise.......so they say.

Weeds ?

I went for a walk today, and I forgot to take my camera. So I picked these weeds and brought them home. There are four different kinds plus a little fern. Next time I go for a walk I will take my camera. They are so pretty growing in the wild. I'm not sure if you click on the picture if you will be able to see the little purple one, it looks like a tiny orchid.





It has finally cooled down here, in the 70's today and just beautiful. I went to town yesterday and bought a new pair of tennis shoes....no excuse now. Hope to walk off a few pounds.






This is growing in our yard, I have shown it before. Some of them grow quite tall, way over my head. Maybe you can see them in the background of the next picture.








This vine growing up the side of our house has little orange trumpet type flowers, it dies back in the winter and will come back next spring.There is also some ivy mixed in with it and I am hoping the ivy will stay, if it does I will do away with the other vine. We have it in other places in our yard.







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Below are two vintage photos that I purchased in Illinois while on vacation.

Please feel free to use them in your art work, who knows they
may become famous.














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I would like to leave you with this......



When you find the Infinite, where will you put it ?

In your broken vessel ? It will not stay.

In a whole new one ? It will not fit.

Let the heart be broken in bitterness for it's confines.

Let it be whole in the joy of a boundless soul.

This is the secret that Man holds over the angels.

Only the human heart can be broken and whole at once.

Old Victorian House

This did not turn out just like I wanted it to but there are still so many things about my program that I do not know how to work...maybe this winter when it is cold outside and I can play around with it.
I wanted to give you a few images that you can work with for Halloween . It is not one of my favorite holidays and I don't do blood and gore, black cats and pumkins, that's my speed.
You should be able to click and save these images.

I would love to live here.........

She came out of an old book I tore up.

And there you have it.

Confederate Rose

While working in the yard I just had to stop and take a picture of this bush in our yard. It is a Confederate Rose.
If you are not familiar with it, the flowers open white and then turn this lovely dark pink.
When I was doing research on it I found this story about how the plant started out with all white flowers but a soldier was killed and lay bleeding at the base of the bush.....as his blood poured out the white flowers turned this almost red color.
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Of course I can not think of that time period, Civil War, without thinking of Scarlet and Rhett.
My most favorite of all movies, Gone With the Wind.
Below are a couple of Civil War photos that you might want to copy and use in some of your art work. They came from the free image site.
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And last is a shot of the area in our yard that I am working on. It is out along side the drive way.

Also it is under the power line that leads to the house. All of the dead plants you see are just half of what use to be there. The power company came and sprayed them, killing them all.

Never mind that I had been pruning and pampering these bushes for about two years trying to establish a hedge of sorts to help hide our house. They were Deer berry bushes, they will only get about 8 to 10 feet tall. NO THREAT to the power lines at all. When I complained and ask them if they were going to come take them out since they had killed them all I got were people passing the buck. So guess who got stuck with the clean up?

At the time of this picture I had already carried off three wheel barrels full.

Hopefully the next yard work I do will be something of my choosing and not a job that just has to be done.
At least the weather has been BEAUTIFUL, in the lower 80's in the day and in the 60's at night.

What a blessing.

Thrift store & yard sale finds

This is a wooden box I found at a yard sale for 50 cents. It has a painted tile insert and is signed by F. W. Thomas. I found a painting done by him on e-bay selling for $2,600. What a great gift this will make.



This green frosted plate was 50 cents at another yard sale, it goes so well in our kitchen and will hold different decorations for the holidays




This dish is one of 37 pcs. from the Goodwill. Cost $9. It is T & V Limoges.
If anyone out there is familiar with this pattern and knows the name of it I would love to know.
It is being held up with one of four wooden plate holders also a yard sale find for 25 cents a piece.






This beautiful crystal cake plate was $1. at the same yard sale that I found the green plate at.
This lady also had a large box of ribbon, mostly new spools, she was selling for 25 cents each.
I guess you know I dropped about $4 on those, should have bought the whole box......
Oh yes, by the way, the cake plate is PLASTIC !!!!







I saved the best for last, all of this material, all satin except for the one piece of pink net,
I dug out of a dumpster up in Illinois.........
My daughter had some things she wanted to drop off at the thrift store and she asked me to get out and ring the bell. So I did and walking past the dumpster, glanced in, saw all of this like new
pieces of fabric. I asked the lady if I could have it, she said, "Oh sure, anything in there is free"
To bad I didn't have a grabber with me. The whole time I am having a ball fishing this stuff out
my daughter is in the truck yelling at me, "MOTHER GET OUT OF THE DUMPSTER" .
Who would have thought it, that was one of the most "fun times" I had up there, I love free!!!!
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It was my turn.........
Most of you that know me know that I worked as a thrift store manager in the Keys for
13 years. We had two big dumpsters out back and a lot of good usable stuff ended up in there.
We had regulars that came around every evening after we closed, we never did mind that as
long as they did not make a mess all over the ground. The more they took the more room we had before the next pick-up. Some times little old ladies would get confused and think it was the drop off bin, (which we never had) and they would put their donations in the dumpster.
One morning I came to work and found a homeless man sleeping in one of them,
I did say it was in the Keys, right?
You are liable to see ANYTHING down there.
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Happy treasure hunting, it's that time of the year.