Foto Friday - It's Springing . . .

. . .  right outside my front door.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
~Ruth Stout

And it's a good thing because this week that is about the only place I have been able to greet it.
Not on a walk on the birding trail, or at my favorite garden center, and certainly not at the butterfly garden!
Just outside my front door . . .

About this same time last week I was taking photos and like I normally do I knealt down
on my knee (the already bad one) and when I got up...well, let's just say it hasn't been the same.
As in, I can't walk on it. I had to go in for an MRI today and with the help of sedation (and my sweet husband) I got through it with flying colors! Now I wait with fingers crossed . . . for good news.

(Insert violin music here, for my little pitty party)

Besides the gray, gloomy, and dismal days we have been having which is outside the realm of normal

here, I've also been having a dysfunctional relationship with a pair of crutches.
So, I decided to take some cuttings of my Indian Hawthorne's inside for a little photo shoot, which didn't last long as I was feeling a little distracted . . . by all the bees . . . gathering pollen outside my front door.

Do you see it, the light of the sun? It tried to shine it's way through the clouds for a brief second.

And then one second more....

I'm not sure what it is about the honey bee....but I could watch them all day long!

{Photo Art Friday - Abstract-ish}

{Shoot, edit, submit}

(Thanks for your indulgence in my little pity party)

Have a wonderful weekend friends!

What's the first thing to spring out your front door?

Love, Kim

XO 

  
 

Foto Friday - More Bees

Hello friends,  

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I'm a little late with foto Friday, I'm afraid I have been in a food coma and I highly

suspect that it's our long standing family tradition of homemade egg noodles that did it.

I am thankful for traditions that I get to pass on to my kids and not only are the noodles a
tradition, but a family affair. When we were first married I made the noodles by myself until I was
pregnant and couldn't get close enough to the counter to roll them out! So as tradition has it,
my husband rolls out the dough, I roll the dough up into logs and cut them and the kids then unroll
them and lay them to dry.

In between baking and cooking I did manage to get out and get some photos this week. I

stopped off at a little public garden down our main street where I found hibiscus and roses blooming

their little hearts out, but I have to say there was something else that caught my attention.

Honey bees . . . and as I watched them I thought about how thankful I am for these

amazing flying insects because of their dutiful life that allows me to eat some incredible

fruits and vegetables and for my camera that allowed me to record it. 

I have a feeling, I'll be back again next week . . .


The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist.
For man it is to know that and wonder at it.
- Jaques Yves Cousteau

{linked with shoot, edit, submit}

And check it out . . . the pear trees are finally starting to change and drop their leaves!

Then, I went back to check on the Monarch's and crossed my fingers . . . and look what I found!

Monarch caterpillars, and quite a few of them!

Now if only when I go back I can find out where they decided to wait out their transformation!

I have never seen a monarch chrysalis in person.

{linked with Fabulous Friday}

This is butterfly weed, their host plant and boy could he eat!!

{Linked with Photo Art Friday and La-La's Home daycare}

Wishing you continued blessings through the year!

Love, Kim

XO

  

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