June 17, 2019 Strawberry Moon

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Due to all the storms I struggled to get a decent shot with the clouds I had to focus right on the moon then I lost the clouds. See blow my attempts.

My view from the back porch. No stars were present due to the clouds of course.

Not sure why this is called a Strawberry Moon, it’s more golden I think.

 

That’s beautiful to me~photos my MichelleMarie

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photos by MichelleMarie

Pruned

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Have you ever felt like you have been pruned by The Master Gardener? All the dead stuff cut away, or perhaps the not so fruity parts of your life pruned and cut away so they can bare more fruit ? Well I have and so has my garden! I was thinking today how sometimes we have to cut away what seems to the eye a good product but pruning allows for newness to grow and everything looks different and feels different because it is.

My butterfly bushes are going crazy this year. I really cut them back and they are blooming out of their spaces this year. 🦋 Come on butterflies. 🦋💜 I’m hoping for the same in my life. 🙏🏼

Mom do you like my hair?

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Alex came out of the bathroom and asked me if I liked her hair. It’s been so hot I decided not to straighten mine, I looked at her I said, “Hi Skip.” She said, OMG we look like Grammy.” Yep 😂 We were channeling Skip today. 😂😂

I’ve always looked like my Mom which I love. It’s so funny to me that Alex looks like me, like I look like my Mom.

Here’s me without sunglasses and my hair curly. I don’t know why I thought that was funny but Alex sure got a kick out of it. We both called each other Skip. 😂

The Sunshine Blogger award-from Watt

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Watt over at Piers of Beauty and Gaze nominated me for
✿The Sunshine Blogger award.✿ I hope I’m doing this right. ☺

Here are the questions Watt requested we answer:

  • What is one thing that separates you from all your screw ups, almost immediately? My kindness and my laugh. I laugh very loud. I love to laugh and if you know me well you know I like to laugh at myself because I do some really goofy funny things.
     
  • How much do you love people? Other people, people that you believe are pieces of you? I love full on like a puppy dog. If I love you I will reach out for your hand or throw my arm around you. I also make sure I say I love you each time we part just in case because you never know life is too short to wait for the right moment.
  • Lastly, what would you call worse; a pulmonary embolism or an intracranial hematoma. The answer is pretty simple, in my opinion. Well a pulmonary embolism is a blood clot in the lungs which my daughter had once and it was scary as all get out. An intracranial hematoma would be scary and I have a friend who lived through it but definitely I think that one is the worse because while both can take you out of here that one is for sure an instant emergency. 

I’ve made so many lovely friends and read a lot of blogs on WP, I feel many make me feel sunshine so I would like to send this out to everyone who reads this. If you are here and we talk, visit and share I consider you a friend and it would be hard for me to choose one or a few!

Watt I hope that’s okay with you. Thanks for the award. Here’s a sunrise from my backyard for you! ✿ Have a beautiful day ✿

Rainbow bridge and bunnies like Mona

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Hey Paul I was thinking about you and Mona and how much you love dancing and all that we experience in our lives. Don’t we just want another dance? I feel like that. I hope you know I’m here.

I truly believe this Paul with all my heart Mona is waiting for you. It’s such a beautiful thought to think that those we love will be waiting when we cross that bridge in life to spirit. I feel her now and always will she lives on through you and that’s a beautiful feeling Paul. I hope you hear my heart. ❤

 

For my dearest friend Paul…in Mona’s memory

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Paul I’m so sorry about sweetest Mona. I love you my friend Paul. Thank you for always being with me and supporting me and I hope that I can support you in this time of true true loss. Much much love you ❤

Yesterday when I was young…Patricia Kaas

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This is one of my Pa’s favorite songs originally sung by Roy Clark, new rendition by Patricia Kaas. I remember as a young girl watching my Pa listen to this song sitting on the back porch, he with sunglasses on. My Pa knew somehow I would feel like he felt like I feel today I remember chasing his words to find some semblance of him. I don’t feel like time and youth had run out but I feel wisdom of age has taught me to not be stupid and even if I am it’s okay to do dumb stuff. Happy Father’s Day Pa…I never feel like you are gone.

 

And I thought I learned by now

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And I thought I learned by now…and I did
When I find myself in same familiar circumstances
Going round and round on this fair ride

And I thought I learned by now…and I did
I can’t stop myself from watching and looking
I tried not to look, but it’s best for me to see

And I thought I learn by now…and I did
I don’t know who I was back then
Now my heart is older and I know it can break

And I thought I learned by now…and I did
Looking sometimes doesn’t hurt like it did
However that familiar sting reminds me that
I learned by now…and I did

I won’t forget