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Flowers

I don’t know whether this was in direct response to my tweet or not, but just look what Aperture Science sent me for Valentine’s Day! That’s my favorite of dozens of shots. Yeah, it’s safe to say I really dig flowers. And they were a very nice surprise, as I certainly wasn’t expecting anything for […]

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Bzz..

Here’s a bee making sure we’ll have seeds to plant from Ethan’s awesome sunflower: The kids are very excited about planting a row of these in our garden next spring. Here’s hoping they’ll actually work.

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A Three Dollar Apology

How many women out there swoon for flowers? Could I be the only one? Knowing these roses-in-the-rough cost less than three bucks helps me to keep the gesture in perspective enough to know I must watch for true penitence. And of course, even if had they cost thirty or three hundred dollars, an apology simply […]

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Chinese Clematis

Update: We figured out what this is called! 🙂 And it’s bad news! But I still think it looks pretty neat. Name that Plant! What wild flower (read: interesting weed) starts out as a curly vine, sports lantern-shape buds that blossom into nodding yellow flowers, opens up to expose long tendrils that look like some […]

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Lilacs Bloomed Every Spring

Lilacs Bloomed Every Spring, Just like before… I loved that eerie song about the Soldier Boy by John Rutter. We sang it in our SATB choir in either Highschool or Junior High. I’ll type the full lyrics if I can remember them. But more than the song I like Lilacs! Here are seven pictures, including […]

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Mini Bouquet

Today the kids and I walked to the back of the yard and into the field, where we found ladybugs, dandelions, speckled rocks, forget-me-nots, and all sorts of tiny wild flowers. I couldn’t catch a picture of the ladybugs but here’s a mini-bouquet I picked and Mary flaunting a dandelion she found. TGIS – Thank […]

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Showers and May Flowers

They say april showers bring my flowers. Well, we’ve had showers in May, complete with wind strong enough to knock down a home being built nearby. But the clouds were amazingly pretty, and I’m sure the flowers loved the water…

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