FireDance2

FireDance1

Gwen Express

Halloween 2010

Little White Rabbit

Angelic Anna

Shiver Me Timbers

Verde River Days

Gwendolyn Monroe

Please, may I take this bug to church?

We catch a few of these around the yard every summer.

Uncle Dustin set up our trampoline yesterday.

Lorelei is still too afraid to jump on it.

Thank you uncle Dustin, you're awesome!

Cover of the Verde Valley Resource Guide

That's Lorelei and Gwen on the upper left and upper right.

First Day of School

Memory Monday:Hands

I had some wonderful ideas for this week. Unfortunately I ran out of time to see them through. So I will probably be taking this weeks challenge into the future. These are a couple of quick shots I took, the first was taken about five minutes after I read what the challenge would be for the week. Who can resist little hands.

This one is my favorite. I've been singing part of a song all week called "Daddy's Hands" so I knew I had to get at least one of these.

Daddy's hands were soft and kind when I was cryin´.
Daddy´s hands, were hard as steel when I´d done wrong.
Daddy´s hands, weren´t always gentle
But I´ve come to understand.
There was always love in Daddy´s hands.

Memory Monday :Black and White

Self Portrait


















Sams new look.


















Molly the peasant girl









My favorite dress!

Swimming in the Verde River at Dead Horse Ranch State Park.

Storm

Yesterday we had a real storm. It started suddenly with hail and lots of it coming fast and furious with driving wind. The hail and wind broke up our tomato plants and some of the flowers in the front yard. Sadly the sunflowers took quite the beating too. The kids thought it was wonderful, and truthfully so did I. Summer rains always make me feel like dancing in the streets like I did as a kid. I did do some dancing, but mostly inside where it was dry. The time has come to pass on the dripping to the next generation and become the one holding the warm towel and dry clothes when playtime is done. Which means I had some time to take a couple of pictures.

The hail was small but plentiful.

This wash runs along the street below us and often runs during a storm. Although not always with this much water.