Bringing back an Annual Floral Parade... :-)

Old photo...  Isn't that the sweetest thing???  An old picture, from an earlier "Floral Parade."  For our 150th Ann. of Racing (this Season), we are resurrecting the "Floral Parade."  :-)  The First was held in 1894, and continued for years, until it got tooooo big, according to reports.  :-)

 According to an official program, the Third Annual Floral Parade, consisted of "magnificently decorated private equipages," over 2 thousand bicycles decorated with flowers, and "the famous Olympic Bicycle Band on wheels."  Whooo-hooooo...  That must have been fun.

 Certainly hope our resurrected one, will be pretty and fun too.  It ends with an Ice Cream Social in the Park.  Ice Cream donated by a local company.  :-)

And back to the present...  3 "Grands" over, to have "Pop" fix their bikes...

Still trying to get my picture size, big enough.  But not too big....

"Grands" showing us, some ripe wee, little tomatoes.

 

According to comments, my blog is now *working* for some, who had problems before.  Not so, for others.  -sigh-

Please keep telling me, of problems you have, with accessing and reading my blog.  With luck, all will smooth out eventually.  I'll keep this setting of only 1 entry showing...  And keep working on the pic size issue.  Keeping them nice-and-big, but not too-big.  :-)

Looking back~~~And wishing~~~

(Pic from my blog, in July, 2009~~~See  how beautiful our Hydrangeas were, way-back-when...)

Guess I'd better ask....  Does my blog, show up too wide, on your screen?  If so, when did it begin doing this?  Please...

I was just told that mine, is too wide, on one Dear Reader's screen.  Any others????

A while ago, one of my Dear Reader's blogs, began to be too wide, on my computer.  I mentioned it to her, but guess I'm the only one......

So, I ask here.  You are reading my blog.  Does it fit your screen, or is it too wide?  Please and thank you.

You who are fans of Elizabeth Goudge...  Have you ever read "The Little White Horse"?  I just saw it here, and it sounds delightful.  So I'm getting it, from the library.

Looking out, at our back yard, and beyond...  TREES...

Again, looking from Patio, across our little back yard, and  across half of my son's back yard, next door.  TREES...
 Too damn many TREES...

When
we built here, nearly 50 years ago, we could see across a number of back yards, to the next street over.  Yes, trees were planted, here and there, over the years.  Nice ambiance plantings.

Then!  The woman next door, got herself a boyfriend, who "had a thing" for grabbing any old tree he could find, and planting it in her back yard.  With never any shaping of them!  Just a bunch of scrub trees, which he let grow and grow and grow.

The BF is gone, but his damn trees remain, and get bigger every year.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...  I so want my nice, normal view back.  -pout-
    

Found a cute, new-to-me, book blog.  Very interesting concept.  It's written "by" the characters, in some favorite cozy mysteries.   Isn't that a cute and novel idea, for a book blog????? 

 

The blog name is (click)   "Killer Characters"....

More pictures, from my blog, in summer of 2009.

Silly me, I was complaining about a lot of rain.  Hehhhh.....  Little did I know, what a lot of rain, could do to my husband's lovely flowers.  -sigh-

Do you ever choose to be still?  Even for a moment, at a time?  I came across a lovely writing, titled "Be Still."
Please take a minute and click here, and enjoy this relaxing post.....  Please....

Let Freedom Ring...!!!

Please click on the following....  Let Freedom Ring

For more information ...  Please click on the following...
Start Ringing Those Freedom Bells Again...

And "Why at 2pm", is told when you click here.  I admit, I never knew this...

Old post, from 2008

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We are moaning and groaning about a Lingering Winter.  I went back a few years, and found this March 28, 2008 blog entry...  Which I copy below...

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Friday, March 28, 2008

Me'thinks I 'jumped the gun'...

Tell me! What pray tell, is she looking sad about? Surrounded by lovely flowers, as she is?
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Here was the neighbor's cat, visiting yesterday. Over to have a drink of water from the bird bath pond. Click on photo and see it larger... to see the little bit of green growing between the rocks...

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This is what would greet her, today! 

And this...

And this...

And this...

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Where oh where did you go, Printemps????????????

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ADDITION:
I forgot to add the only redeeming feature, to this snow.
There is an old saying, around these parts. "Spring snow is the poor man's manure."
Hope that helps those, with Spring Snow. 'Cause it's the best I can do. >,-) 
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So this copy of a 5 year old post, goes to show, that this kind of weather is normal, for "my neck of the woods".  And I should realize this! 

Photos, from past years... And Wonderings...

Yes, I'm posting photos, from past years...

Haven't gotten down street to take this year's pics of toy store "Geewilikers," this year.  So, I use some, from another year past. 

 

I do my decorations a bit differently, each year.    I really like the effect of the Faerie Lights here, from another Christmas Time.  But it is getting harder and harder to get Faerie Lights, in a soft white.  The new ones we have, are very bright white.  Even if they look-like-muted, before you buy them.  

More 'Geewilikers' windows...  A past year...

The clock is ticking along now.  We continue on through the darkest part of the entire year.  Thursday will be the Eve Of Yule.  And Yule will be on Friday.   Only then, on the Winter Solstice, will the days begin ever-so-slowly to lengthen.  And Darkness's hold on the Earth, will begin to wane.

This is what I was really looking for!!!  Going through winter posts, in old blogs...  Pics of SNOW!!!!  -sigh- 

I have heard the term 'Crisis Energy,' for the first time this year.  "This time of year has a crisis energy to it and people react to that whether they believe in it or not. It’s almost funny, you know? People are at the mercy of energy they don’t believe in, probably in large part because they won’t accept that it’s real and take measures to control their reaction." 

And with the sad, horrible events we have been experiencing, both in my area (a terrible car crash killing and injuring young people) , and nationally......    I certainly wonder if there really is a form of 'Crisis Energy,' happening in the world, at this Time of Darkness.   And most of us are completely unaware of it...  And thus, unable to deal with it...

 Sorry to "go-all-dark-and-deep" on you.  So here is something else from the past.  "Auntie" in a "Mrs. Santa" bonnet.  ,-)

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♥ "Full Blue Moon"... Happy find...

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'Tis a Blue Moon tonight. :-) 

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Discovered, during de-cluttering...

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I LOVE this picture.   And have it out and displayed, in a smaller size.  But this is a BIG size!

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Taking a picture, of a framed picture, is hard.  Too much reflection.  Reflection in one place, on one...   And in another place, on another snap.  So, I put 3 pics up.  -grin-

1997...  Out daughter's wedding...  Someone just snapped this picture, outside of church...   Of son Michael, me, son Edward and their Father.  We have many pics from this wedding, but I really love this one.  I am actually totally at ease.  All of us are!  So hard to capture, something like this, in photos.  :-)

Yes, I will show a pic of the Bride.  :-)  In her great, great Aunt Josie's circa 1904 wedding gown.

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Don't forget...

I have Flying Monkeys...

Don't make me use them.

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♥Winter lingering... Only a memory...

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Looking back through a past blog of mine  ~~  I came upon a late Feb. '09 post, titled

"A Late Winter Fantasy...  Come join me..."  

What a difference in our weather patterns, from '09 to '12!  

I copy some of that post, below...

Photo from   "Mary Emmerling's Country 1994"

Dear Cielo says to look and to listen... That Spring and Faeries are near. And I love her, for saying such. But... -sigh-
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When I look, I see only snow and ice. And when I listen, I hear only howling wind. I fear my Garden Faeries are still ensconced for now, in some warm and far away place, because of the latitude of where I live, or something.
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So I think I'll stay in the library above, for a little longer. Curled up on the comfy sofa, in front of a roaring fire in the big fireplace, reading and reading and reading... Until the snows stop falling and the ice stops forming and the winds stop howling.
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Actually, the fantasy of doing such, is very, very pleasing. If I had such a library as pictured above, I might not fret so much, if winter did linger. And... If I had a long-time supply of cocoa and coffee to sip in the day time... And a long-time supply of Champagne to sip, in the evening hours... And plenty of firewood for the fireplace. It might be quite nice. :-)
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If you are in a latitude where winter is lingering, perhaps you'd like to come visit with me? And sip and read for a while, too?
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 February 25, 2012

Back to the present...  

Though it looks as if Vee had snow, all we got yesterday was rain.  And this morning, we have this...

...and this...

I'd still love to have that beeeeeeeeautiful Library, pictured above.  And a roaring fire in a big fireplace.  And books and books and books to read.  :-)

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"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."  

~Mae West

-chuckle-  I've also seen this quote written as;

"I used to be pure as the driven snow, but I drifted."  ~Mae West

Either way, one *gets the drift*...  ,-)

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