A Hot Day At The Craft Fair

 First, I am taking the day off from visiting blogs today. We have a busy day and will be gone most of the day. We have two medical appointments, a high school competition with our granddaughter, and tending a friend's cat. 

We walked around an outside craft show last weekend. I got some pictures, but it was so HOT! Way over 90!

There was live music as well.

Perhaps this booth was homemade dog treats.

I was tempted at this booth.

What do you think these things are? I have no idea.

Whatever they are, the artist was sitting there carving more of them.

This was another favorite of mine. People, creatures, and animals made from clothespins. Then made into magnets.

There were different themes. This one was The wizard Of Oz. See the Tin Man in the middle?

And so ends our little Craft Fair adventure. See anything you wanted? I am proud of myself, I did not buy one thing!

 "I craft so hard I sweat glitter."

 ~Author unknown

Old Friends

 I saw this pair of Bluebirds from quite a distance away. That is why the pictures are so blurry. They stayed together, and were so sweet. And for some reason, they made me think of the Paul Simon song Old Friends. Who knows why...

Old friends
Sat on their park bench
Like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
On the high shoes
Of the old friends

 

Can you imagine us
Years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange
To be seventy

Paul Simon

 Driving down the road by the river, I spotted a flash of white. What was it...a plastic bag, a handkerchief?

It was a Great White Heron! Partly hidden by bare tree limbs and on the other side of a fence. I don't think he even spotted us.

“It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light.”

Mary Oliver

Sunday Sunset

 I snapped these yesterday evening; it was a lovely sunset that held a nice surprise.

 In order.

Balloons celebrating the sunset! Does it get any better than this?

An Unexpected Guest At the Table

 You might get unexpected guests when you have a salmon dinner. Our granddaughter is getting a dinnertime visit from her kitty Toodles.

Photo taken by our daughter-in-law Melissa.

A Real Lifesaver!

 My Lifesaver plant is blooming again, and I just had to show you! Yes, I have posted it before, but it is so amazing to me. Here is the plant.

And now, a closer look at the bloom!

They are a succulent. And of course their name is because the blooms look like Lifesavers candy.

Here is what the blooms start out looking like before they open. As you can see, there are a lot more!

Black & White

 These are real photos of rare creatures. I got them from the web, of course. First, an Albino Moose.

An albino Humpback Whale.

A Black Chinchilla.

Black Magic Petunias.

Black & White Dog.

Albino Giraffe.

Black Turtle.

Baby Zebra, not quite striped.

“The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.”
― Vikrmn