Week 22 ~ In Bloom

What's in bloom in my garden and my house

Not much blooming yet.... except for fields of forget-me-nots, a few straggling magnolia blossoms, the beginning of the johnny jump ups and an endless sea of dandelions

I forgot my red orchid last week and the white one wanted a cameo... I also have a crown of thorns which also blooms most of the time

No pictures of the hanging baskets I bought two weeks ago as I did nothing but buy them!

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Week 21 ~ What I do most mornings after I drink my coffee!

Sleep... on the bed right beside the blankie that is on the bed for me to sleep on  & yes I do like coffee!

Now if you want to know what my slave does.. she empties her kiln of all the 'pretties' that have been annealing overnight

Except Sunday mornings she waters my orchids

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Week 20 ~The View About the Ground

Cacti garden in Santa Cruz de Tenerife  The park was right next door to the hotel.. spent our time wondering around the garden instead of shopping which suited my husband just fine!

Hotel Pool on Costa Adeje, Tenerife...  took forever to get this picture with no people in it!

Swiss Alps heading home.....  Really gotta love the airlines and going places every flight we got on we went two hours the wrong way to get anywhere....

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WEEK 19 ~ Good Things Inside

Since it's actually trying to be spring here I couldn't think  of anything more appropriate for this weeks prompt than flower buds opening

My Daffodils (guess they are technically narcissus)

Does anyone know what this tree/flower is.. they were growing in Tenerife  the flower buds look like upside down bunches of bananas.

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Week 18 ~ In Your Hands

What happened to April.. It's already May 2nd.....

OK so these aren't actually in anyone's hand(s) but they should be since they are wine glasses....  This 'chandelier' was in a bar in Islay  I've never seen a light fixture made out of rose coloured wine glasses before!

Chandelier made from wine glasses... the light is a single bulb. Really a stunning fixture!

A more traditional use of  a wine glass

Same bar as the chandelier... but the glasses they serve with their wine aren't pink....

A different bar.. this is actually a pub in Wales...  My husband is cracking pistachio nuts with the iron window hardware.... I was hoping no-one was watching...
I was forced to make a crack to the effect that
 'Monkey's can be trained to use tools....'

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Week 12 ~ Expression

According to my calendar it's March.. yesterday was the first day of spring wind snow and rain... lovely spring day!  I actually got to leave my island this week... but I didn't take pictures  We went to one of the games at the woman's world curling in Saint John.. but the expressions on the winners weren't ecstatic because the games were so lopsided that it was a forgone conclusion....  We also went to the reopening of the Algonquin hotel in St Andrew's  the hotel has been closed for almost 2 years being renovated... I left my camera in the car that day...  So what did I take a pictures of?

Meet Paddy O'Bear,  I was bored on Monday night so I knit a teddy bear while I was watching TV...  The pattern is a free download  http://www.berroco.com/patterns/barrison-20  this pattern is for  is Barrison -2  I used a modified version of Barrison -1, which I downloaded last year in March...  The yarn I used was something I bought on sale many years ago  ... He's Paddy because he was conceived on St Patrick's day and he's green... But at the moment he has no face so 'no Expression'.....  Poor little guy needs a nose and eyes  Or does he.. I think he does a really good job of expressing cute and cuddly with no face.....

This morning I got up and found this happy face on the kitchen table... I normally steal a handful of my husbands cheerios,    So this is my happy face because the sun was shinning &  the snow has quit for a few minutes....

I have a few really bad pictures of my husband but was told I was not allowed to post them... so you will have to settle for my 'faceless' bear and my cheerio smile!

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Week 11 ~ Beauty All Around

Focus on life March 2014 This month we are suppose to be 'checking out' ...(After this winter I would really like to be checking out' of here!)  It is still nasty here... another winter storm is forecast for tomorrow... will this winter ever end?

I actually remembered to check the prompt on Sunday...  (I liked it when we got weekly letters last year) but by Monday morning had forgotten what the prompt was.... Last night sitting in the hot tub... it was absolutely calm  (almost never happens here) with somewhat strange lighting so I ran back in the house and grabbed a camera.. then shot a bunch of pictures of the boats in the cove...  and was pleasantly surprised when I rechecked the prompt this morning that I could actually use them!

Fish eye lense from the hot tub  (12 feet lower than last weeks picture)

same view no fish eye zoomed in...  The four matching boats belong to one of  salmon companies

A bit later the mist was starting to roll in
(the water is Lords Cove which attaches directly to the Bay of Fundy ... part of the North Atlantic.. we have 28 foot tides here)

My helper!

Even though I do not like DST it is rather nice sitting in the hot tub after supper in daylight.....

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