Be safe out there....

And the beat goes on........

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Be safe out there....

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Summer... Beauty....

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"Summer has filled her veins with light

and her heart is washed with noon."

~C. Day Lewis

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(Yes, just prettiness...  But no one wants much else, anyway...  I guess.......)

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Just can't stop smiling.........

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JUST  CAN'T  STOP  SMILING....

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Beauty... But deadly beauty.... -sigh-

Isn't that pretty?  Tiny purple and yellow flowers...

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I think it is so pretty.  And it seems as if it likes me.  That white you see, is the house siding, under the den windows.  The den, where I have my computer desk.  :-)

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See?  Doesn't that seem as if it is trying to come to me?  ,-)))))))))

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But the thing is......  It is Deadly Nightshade.  Poisonous. 

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 Lyte urges growers 'to be carefull to see to it and to close it in, that no body enter into the place where it groweth, that wilbe enticed with the beautie of the fruite to eate thereof.' (source)

My husband has pulled and dug it out.  But it returns.  It returns. 

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Best to take Lyte's advice (whomever he may have been) and go after it, again. 

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No matter how pretty,  -sigh-  It has no place in polite society.  Or in one's back yard.

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Rainy and recovery....

Our hearth room....  Drapes pulled and little string of faerie lights on.  While our grand daughter recovers from having her 4 wisdom teeth out, on Monday.

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She has been laying low and taking her meds, with soft food and has been quite good.  But today "could be" the worst day.  She is in "her little nest" on the couch.  It's rainy and cool, so I straightened out her pillows.  Made 2 blankets "neat" and put them on her, and around her.  And quiet prevails.  :-)

At noon time, "Thor" (Noah Syndergaard) is supposed to be pitching for the Mets.  We can have that on the tv, with sound off, if she wishes.  And she can sleep right through it too, if she wishes.  I don't mind sound off.  With my hearing loss, I read the captions, rather than listen, anyway.  ,-)

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So, with not much going on here, and rainy weather, not good for photos....  I'll post some lovely pictures from "Victoria" magazine.

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Mmmmmmm, aren't they lovvvvvvvvvvely...............????????

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"No occupation is so delightful to me

as the culture of the earth, and no culture

comparable to that of the garden."

~Thomas Jefferson

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Please!!! Enjoy!!!

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Tonight is the Full Strawberry Moon

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Today marks the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.   The longest day of the year, when, in this hemisphere, the earth is tilted closest to the sun.
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Please!!!

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Enjoy!!!

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This and that and Summer Solstice coming....

Perfect summer sky...

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Perfect summer breakfast accompaniment...
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"Grands'" kitty, next door...
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Discovered this one little flower, blooming between steps into the pool area.  It had to have seeded itself.  :-)
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I so love the color combination of my petunias in pots, on back patio....
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(I apologize for the too-large-horizontal photos below)
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And now we begin a series of photos, of the water flowing and bubbling, from the little bird bath fountain, into the little pond. 

(And the horizontal photos are too long.  I apologize.)

I know!   "Over kill"!!!  ,-)  Too many pics of water and bubbles.   ,-)
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But ...   Just scroll down, if you want to.  :-))))
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There!!!!   Those are done!!!!

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And now, I am excited about the fact that the Summer Solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the Full Strawberry Moon, coincide on this coming Monday!!!!
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I love to celebrate seasonal changes.  And also love the Full Moons.  So this will be a very special day/night.  :-)
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"Oh, the summer night 
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne."
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If anyone is looking for me..... :-))) (and addition)

It's official!  I am again living in "Sleeping Beauty's Castle"!  See all those vines, on the pool fence?  Of course you see them.  ,-)  Well, don't they look like the over-growth in "Sleeping Beauty's Castle"????

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And though once I did not like the "Sleeping Beauty's Castle" effect...  Now I welcome it!!!!  

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With stress bombarding both my husband and I, from every side...  For our own sanity/health, we need to withdraw into our little plot of land.  Into our wild and cultivated flowers.  Into the peace we can make, for each other.  While the world, tries to implode....  And things closer to home, can try to disrupt us, too. 

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I can't take any of it, anymore.  And I don't think he can, either.  Although he does a better job of being wise, and not letting things "get-to-him", than I do.  But when "things- get-to-me,"  it does not make life easy, for him.

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So, that's it.  I declare an End!  To accepting into my mind, any/all which would make me sick, in mind and in body.  If I don't do it, who will?

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So, if anyone is looking for me.....  :-)  I will be inside my  quiet, peaceful, flower laden, whispering breezes blowing, bees buzzing, waving leaves on trees BUBBLE.      

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Perhaps I can't even watch The Mets games!  I get too invested in win/loss.  ,-))))))))

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With wishes for you Dear Readers, to find your Peace. Hugs....   And Love.....

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I am not leaving blogging or IG.
I am disciplining myself to leave behind,
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I love a wildflower meadow.... :-)

A photo of my husband's old Chevy truck, taken across a wild flower meadow.  It's not really a meadow.  It's just the front perennial garden.  I love it this way!  It is like a meadow of wild flowers.  Nothing better, in my estimation.   

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The first peony to emerge...  Quite delightful, peeking out from the surrounding Queen Anne's Lace. 

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Just my silly curtain, made to cover an ugly old shade.  :-)  It's not that lovely...  Needed to be fuller.... But it's fun, for now.  :-)
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Yes..... Today... I blog......

Yes, I am furious, that my fellow citizens, were slaughtered, by a Radical Islamic Terrorist Sympathizer, simply for being who they are.

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But I will not let ISIS change my way of life.   

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My way of life, includes blogging.   And so, today, I blog. 

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By showing a  photo of one of our "Old Roses".  The name of this "Old Rose," is "Joseph's Coat Of Many Colors."  I feel that this is quite appropriate. 

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I do not follow their way of life.  But they are my fellow citizens.  And there was no reason, for them to be slaughtered, than for any other of my fellow citizens, to be slaughtered.

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Happy, happy, happy........

.I've been a bit 'down'...  The last few hours...   Silly me, I know...  Nothing really, to be 'down' about.

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But just now, I found that an awaited blog, has begun posting again.  And I am so happy.  :-))))

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And I'd love to share the name and link of this lovely blog, with you.  I actually have done so before.  But she wasn't back to posting, then.  And now she is!!!!   Happy day!

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Please take a minute, to use this link, and pop over and take a peek.  You won't be disappointed. 

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