Lawn Party

Since it's been sooooo hot and humid I haven't gotten to ride or do much with Gilly. He hides in the barn with Pokey in front of their fan. So with that said.....

A few weeks ago when the weather was nice and cool (cool what is that?) Kim had a lawn party down at her beautiful house. There was a really nice breeze and at times it was almost like a fall day, wonderful!

Just on the other side of the road is the creek that was rushing over some rocks that made a waterfall, the sound was so soothing. The flowers on the table, Kim had picked that morning, all wild flowers out along one of our country roads.

We had artichoke dip, herbed crackers, lemonade, fresh fruit salad, hot dogs, homemade sauce and macaroni salad. After we ate and sat around talking, there were 7 women, (a real hen party!) One gal had brought strawberry, blackberry, exotic fruit, and several other kinds of Amish wine. I sampled some of all of it, sampled I said! If I drink too much wine I get a bad headache, not fun. We all had a great time, I left about 8 in the evening, had been there since noon!

We did take a break and walked up to my house to let the dogs out to pee and to see Gilly and Pokey. Pokey was fascinated by one of the gals feet, she had on sparkly green nail polish on her toes. He just kept putting his nose down to smell her toes and just kept looking at them....LOL...I had had a few glasses of wine so of course I didn't get any pictures of this...and...I had my camera clipped onto my jeans! Blah!!!

Here are some close ups of the beautiful flowers.........with a visitor or two!

 A bee.......

and a butterfly came by to sample the flowers!

One of Kim's friends brought this beautiful bouquet! All these flowers were from her garden! Wish I had gotten a better picture of them.

I liked this picture with the pines across the creek as the background. I wish I could bring back that cool breeze that was blowing down the creek that day. It would be much appreciated by everyone, including the animals!

I thought that maybe by posting about a nicer day it would make me forget about the heat and humidity...(the AC really helps!!!)  ;-)

Keep cool everyone.................

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Primroses

I was outside yesterday evening and spotted these primroses peeking out of the periwinkle vines. I planted these flowers years ago and they still come up every spring, there were more of them but these are the only ones still surviving. Love their beautiful colors!

More flowers

Visited a friends home a few weeks ago to see her flower garden. This blue gazing globe was one thing that really caught my eye! I have never seen one that has the swirls in it like this and I love the deep cobalt color.........beautiful!!!
Tobacco plant with beautiful pink flowers.................
Gorgeous gladiolas the colors reminds me of wonderful sherbet!

A double lily, almost knock your eye out orange!

A bee getting his lunch on this purple cone flower..................

Cone flowers by a wishing well and a statue of a little girl among the flowers.

Flowers at Julie's

Went on a ride yesterday.........would have posted last night but 4 hours of riding when you aren't
used to it makes for one tired body!!! Anyway after riding some old dirt roads my friend Kim and I decided to ride over to a neighbor's, up on the next ridge, Julie Zickefoose....her blog link is on my site..........wonderful photographer and writer, not to mention her paintings!!!
I had my little Kodak Easy Share camera with me, not brave to take the big Cannon yet....Gilly might decide to eat it!!! Took some pictures while taking a break from riding. First picture is of Julie's house and flower beds, second one is of a huge sage plant that is taking over the corner of the bed.












The concrete pig under the tree..........when Gilly first saw that he snorted and blew through his nose, as if to say, "What the heck is THAT and is it going to eat me?" I took him closer to it so he could see that it wasn't a horse eating pig; he just blew softly through his nose and said, "Oh, I knew it was a fake." then tried to eat the tree. So much for a picture of him and the pig!
More pictures of the day later...........have to run to town.......will post more later today.
Enjoy!

evening shots

i think i got some good shots here, leaves and flowers.