Shadows and Summaries

Made me think of the song...Elanor Rigby...I don't know why.
Nuecestown Historical Cemetery







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SUNDAY'S SUMMARY

A few weeks back, I got this [in Dr. Seuss mode] "this wonderful, awful idea".  Wonderful 'cause it's a way of posting and saving all my bird photos online...awful, 'cause it entailed more computer time than I expected.  Still, all in all, it has been a fun, at times frustrating, challenge.  You see, I have so many bird photos on my computer, and copied on disks, that I thought it's more or less a waste to have them and not use them somehow.  I've even been wanting to find a duplicate wall frame with the eight collage sections to put my 'all time' favorite hard copy photos of birds [like the sunset/beach photos of mine] - but have yet to find the very same frame.  I kick myself for not buying two, but the inspiration for doing one of birds didn't come about soon enough.  Oh well...that's life.  In the meantime, I've been slowly working on framing my digital images and then will add them to a new blog I'm going to try and keep up with as time allows....I'D RATHER B BIRDIN'.  I am hoping to add five or more framed images to each post, and do a post, hopefully, once a month.  If you'd like to view my newly designed blog, the link I provided in this post will take you to my first ten photo edition.   And I will use my 'bumper sticker' on my sidebar as a permanent fixture to direct to the birdin' blog of mine. One thing that gave us a bit of anticipation this week was a potted plant outdoors. We've had it for nearly ten years now...and all it's done is 'sit there'. We've babied and coddled it...taking it in during the winter when the nights would drop below 50 degrees [it suffers badly with chilly nights]. Then, this past month I noticed a flower bud!!! TWO in fact [and more small ones coming on as I type]. I have been keeping a vigil on those two buds and recording their progress. Friday night I had to set the alarm clock for 2a.m.!!!! You see the plant blooms only at night!! The plant is an epiphyllum!!  [mine is epiphyllum-guatamalense] I figured by the buds' formation around dinner time Friday, that they'd be open Saturday morning. I got up....loaded the camera....went outdoors....and I was just BLOWN AWAY BY THE BEAUTY OF IT ALL!!! Amazing. Also, this week landscape redesigning along the south side of the house near the foundation...where I put the red bark intermixed with the climbing rose and hibiscus and fairy figurines...we had a nasty, long lasting, rainstorm a week ago at the beginning of the week, and that area flooded...washing out a lot of the bark. So, waiting 'til after it dried out some, we both worked at edging the sides of the air conditioning unit to hold back the bark more. Only time will tell if the idea works. I cleaned out all of the hummingbird feeders. And as soon as I rehung them, they came flocking in like dive-bombers!!! They're so cute. And unafraid it seems. Another day this week, after driving home from the island and beach walk, we stopped at our usual bookstore to see what was on sale....I found the newest George W. Bush's autobiography [Decision Points] that I've been wanting and waiting for it to go for a cheaper price. I bought two...regularly $35 a piece...I got two for $10. Plan on giving one edition to our son next time he comes to town since he teaches government at a university in Houston. Oh, and I gotta share with you my flub of the week!!! I bought some wrought iron poles with the fleur de lis on top - for my climbing passion vines. When I went out to get them steadied in the ground near the vines, I noticed within the hour that the purple one was wilting fast and furious....  I cut the root!! If I'm lucky, I will be able to find another just like it and start over...but, I'm thinking the passion vine season is over at the plant nurseries!!! Maybe, I'll hafta wait 'til next year to replace it. After that fiasco, we edged and mowed lawn. When it rains a lot, the grass'll grow. LOL I'm gonna add the photo recording of the progress of the epiphylum buds to blossom :






















above: certain days recorded in the month of May
below...May 19th...Saturday Morning @ 2 a.m.!!! ...they're HUGE - about the size of a large pie serving saucer