A Short July Drive

 It is 4th of July week! These photos are just from driving around our neighborhood.

A homemade star.

A  patriotic car ribbon.

A flag of lights on someone's garage door.

A matching mailbox among other items.

A star with a blue bottle tree.

 “On the 4th of July, we come together as a nation to prove that we can blow things up and still have all our fingers intact.”

July 1st 2025

 It is almost July 1st. So as usual on the first of the month, here is my new calendar page.

“In July, flip-flops and ice cream cones are all you need to feel fancy.”

 

 “There’s no rush in July, just the gentle rhythm of summer days.”

Sunday Sunset

 In order

“Sunsets are the opening music of the night.” — Mehmet Murat İldan

Glad All Over

The front yard of a nearby house is full of Gladiola!

🌸 "The gladiolus stands tall, not to boast, but to remind us that strength and grace can bloom together."

Let There Be Light

 Meet Bill Craft. He makes lamps from various devices and scavenged items. He had a show here, but by the time we got there, most of them had been sold. So I found these photos on the web and from papers.

Bill's lamps are made from garbage disposals, colanders, strainers, blow torches, erector sets, & gauges. One is even made from an old warhead! The warhead is second from the left.

“A lamp doesn’t rush the dawn—it simply glows with grace through the dark.”

The Weird And the Wonderful

 These photos are just from us driving around the neighborhood. We saw both lovely and also weird things.

This moose head was looking at us from the front window! Creepy.

Our next-door neighbor's pretty summer flag.

An indoor Christmas tree in June! Plus lights outside.

I thought this was lovely!

Black cat & Mickey Mouse

This was hanging in someone's porch. Who knows what it is...

It also swivels around.

A life-size lamb

It's okay to keep a broken oven in your yard as long as you call it art.

Jenny Lawson

Mush

 We came out of the house last week, and were surprised to see all these mushrooms in the side yard!

Some had holes in the top.

Fast forward a few days, and they had all flattened out. Looking very different.

And some still had holes in the top.

"There are more than 10,000 types of mushrooms in North America; some are edible, others are not so friendly."

Roger Phillips

4th Living Room

 I only decorate two rooms. This is because they are usually the only rooms that people see when they come over. So this is the last one, the living room.

Under the T,V.

The end table

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

Victor Borge