Butterflies and Rain

WE FINALLY HAVE RAIN IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE!!  It was such a relief to hear the rain start on Sunday afternoon!!  April, I know a little how you miss the rain and storms in LA now!  We had a month with no rain, and I have been watering something just about every day now for a while...... garden and berries and some trees.  Also, I don't have to have the air-conditioner on today..........and that is a real plus!!  As a matter of fact, it's almost cool enough to start a little fire in the little stove, LOL!!  Definitely the month of August was hot and dry here, and looks as if September is starting out cool and wet..........we'll see what the rest of the month brings!

I've had wonderful butterflies on the zinnia's this summer again.  Here are a few to share:

Early Summertime in Tennessee

My garden grows well. The little finches are eating the wild flower seed in the front yard, daily. They love the seeds from the yellow coreopsis that has just finished blooming. The daisies have been very nice, and one morning I was in the kitchen and kept hearing a strange small sound from the back porch. When I looked out, a little nuthatch was hard at work pulling the wool from some shoes I had left out to dry! I feel honored she/he choose a part of my shoe to line the nest!

Just a note

Today I uploaded more pictures from the west coast, from the Marc Adamus photo seminar. Here is the link: https://picasaweb.google.com/home

The garden is growing well, should have 'new' potatoes soon. I've planted the next bed of lettuce and greens. Beans are up and will soon be asking for something to climb on! It's getting HOT weather in Tennessee!

Today I have been editing more pictures of LA and the Getty Center, along with cleaning house and getting things ready for the book club tomorrow. Here are a couple of birds flying from the whale watch Yvonne, April and I went on. I'll post more on the picasa site soon.

I posted here yesterday but the pictures and words were sort of jumbled, so here I go today!! Most of the month of April was spent on an adventure. I visited April in LA., saw the Golden Girls in Ca and Oregon, and rode a train from L.A. to Portland and spent a few nights at Paul and Gina's. I also took a weekend photo class from Marc Adamus around the central coast of Oregon. I had a wonderful trip, and I'm just now starting to edit pictures from that time.

From 30,000 feet in the air, the dark places in the photo are cloud shadows!! Here is one from the plane window when we were closer to the mountains!

Having trouble figuring out this blogg way of arranging words and images, so that's about all the pictures I will put up today. I'll add another blog just for images maybe.

Saturday I went to Standing Stone State Park and took some wildflower pictures. The early flowers are in bloom, and the day was sunny.