Can you enjoy being outside, in summer...???????????

I'm so happy for all who can go out and enjoy Summer!  As,  I can't.

I walk out a door. And a signal goes out, to every flying/biting/stinging winged insect, in a 3 mile surrounding area. SHE-IS-OUT... -sigh-

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My husband and others, can sit outside and enjoy. Telling me "There are no bugs around."  Hahhhhhhhhh!!! That may well be true, for them. But not for me! My son-in-law is the same way, so it's not just me.

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No, I do not go out, sprayed in flowery perfume! -sigh- I guess that simply "How-I-Smell-To-Them", is aphrodisiac enough. 

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Enjoy!   Enjoy!   Enjoy ! And Enjoy being outside in Summer,  some more, for me!!!!!

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THANK YOU......!!!!!!

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D-Day, June 6, 1944

"General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the Day. "Full victory - nothing else" to paratroopers in England on June 6, 1944, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe. All of the men with General Eisenhower are members of Company E, 502d."

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"U.S. Rangers on a troop ship in an English port waiting for the signal to sail to the coast of Normandy. Clockwise, starting from far left, is First Sergeant Sandy Martin, who was killed during the landing, Technician Fifth Grade Joseph Markovich, Corporal John Loshiavo, and at bottom, Private First Class Frank E. Lockwood."

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"While under attack of heavy machine gun fire from the German coastal defense forces, American soldiers wade ashore off the ramp of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, during the Allied landing operations at Normandy, France on D-Day, June 6, 1944."

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"...June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Normandy, Allied forces took the fight to the Axis powers in many locations across Western Europe."

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"Some of the first assault troops to hit the beachhead in Normandy, France take cover behind enemy obstacles to fire on German forces as others follow the first tanks plunging through the water towards the German-held shore on June 6, 1944."  (When my husband was in the Army Reserve (1950's), he served with a Sargent, who survived this, as he said; "by running behind a tank.")

 

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"...on D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history took place. Nearly 200,000 Allied troops boarded 7,000 ships and more than 3,000 aircraft and headed toward Normandy."

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"Members of an American landing party help others whose landing craft was sunk by enemy action of the coast of France. These survivors reached Omaha Beach by using a life raft on June 6, 1944."

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"American soldiers on Omaha Beach recover the dead after the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of France."

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"American dead lie in a French field, a short distance from the allied beachhead in France on June 20, 1944."

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All gave some,

Some gave all.

Thank you.

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"We now return you, to your regularly scheduled programing...."

Yes, "We now return you, to your regularly scheduled programing...."

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After so much of my "inner life," revealed in posting here, I figure readers would like some quiet, simple, no personal views, no personal angst, etc., etc., etc., in my posting.

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And I can do that!!!!!  I can post flowers, with the best of them!  ,-)   For a lot of us, flowers are taking up a lot of our time and attention.  Because this growing season, in the Northern Hemisphere, is not so very long. 

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We know that almost in-the-blink-of-an-eye, Autumn will come.  Beautiful and wonderful though Autumn be, it makes us think ahead, to winter.  Brrrrr.... 

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So there are now, a whole lot of flowers on our minds...  Finding them, planting them, watering them, and just plain old enjoying looking at them.

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And an all year enjoyment for me, is "Victoria" magazine.   Just look at the beauty shown, on these covers!!!!!   Can't help but bring a smile to the face.

And a smile to the face, is something to grab, and enjoy, and hold on to.    There are always big or little frowns, lurking....   So grab whatever makes you happy and smile.  Notice it!  Fully enjoy it!  Don't let any of the Nice Things, pass you by.  Without your full attention.  :-)  In my humble opinion, that is.
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