A Million Smiles

A recent visit with a friend and her daughter

at my city's local park gave me the opportunity

to do my first "people" photo shoot.
What a delight it was to watch and simply

capture the moments.

Million Smiles Playground

coaxed many great big ones from

Miss Norah Noelle

nearby Fishtrap Creek

enticed this bare-footed girl

to wade the shallows

clouds

With my husband off on an adventure,

I quietly enjoyed my morning coffee while sitting outside

and watching these interesting clouds float by.

Saturday morning

watching odd-shaped wisps of clouds

drift across the sky

spiders

HUMP Day Haiku

No, I didn't fall off the planet!

Joining Helen once again for this week's HDH.

Midway through cutting off hosta bloom stalks,

I realized this spider had been using them to secure his web.

(I was REALLY thankful he hadn’t gotten in my hair or

crawled up my arm or... shudder... something worse.)

I left the remaining stalks uncut, 

feeling sorry I had caused so much damage to the web.

Not to worry.

The next morning, a new one was in place.

itsy, bitsy...not!

this industrious spider

rebuilt in one day

waning summer days

ramp up spider construction

webs blocking passage

inside an ‘Iceberg’

rests this tiny arachnid

no phobias here!

rejoice

Like the many travellers I see pulling trailers or driving motor homes,

I think my creativity is on vacation.

With some effort, I've composed a haiku this week.

Hope you're all having a great summer. 

the bird is a blur

the admonition is clear

rejoice in the Lord!

the sparrow

not even a bird

like this small sparrow can hide

from God who made it

if a sparrow’s plight

is known to God who made it

how much more is yours?

re-purposed equine footwear

My husband made several of these by special request

for a horse-loving couple's upcoming outdoor wedding.

I got two for my garden.

 

 

horses go shoeless

hearts are welded together

art for the garden

July and it's still raining

I don't like to whine, but....

rain, rain, go AWAY!

I want to tend my garden

sit in warm sunshine

daisies grow taller

lush green grass too wet to cut

plants flourish with rain