{ Friday Foto Friends #78 }

Edited:

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but it is. Just refresh your page and then look again.....and, there it'll be!

Thanks so much for bearing with this first week's adjustment.

Since I wasn't able to host the link-up last Friday, I've got foto overload today, so here goes.....

Pappy and I celebrated our 40th anniversary on the 22nd of April.  We opted to go "cheap" and took a day trip to Chattanooga instead of spending the money that was needed on some home repairs.   

Taken out of the car window going down the Interstate.....

Bridge over the Tennessee River.  

Do y'all know how much I dislike bridges and this one was sooooo long?!?!?

Gigantic cross along the side of the Interstate.....

Where we ate our anniversary lunch.....

Loved this license plate on a car in front of us.....

These pics were taken at Seven Islands State Birding Park.  

We are so blessed to have this state park right in our back door.  I went there this week with the kiddos on a nature walk.....

Beautiful daisies growing in the middle of a dirt pathway.....

And, the rest of these were taken in our yard. I love this time of year with everything so green and in bloom.....

Pay no attention to the kiddos toys hiding behind this rhododendron..... 

Well, I sincerely hope y'all stuck with me to the end.....

I don't think I need to skip a week ever again!

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HOPE everybody has an awesomely blessed Friday and weekend!

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August 4, 2011

Seven Islands Game Refuge....

....at the end of the road!!!

 June 22, 2011

"Time sometimes flies like a bird,

sometimes crawls like a snail;

but a man (woman) is happiest when he (she) does not even notice whether it passes swiftly, 

or slowly."

~~~Ivan Turgenev~~~

June 21, 2011

Notice hubby's ball cap on the fence post.  
He had taken it off to put his "sweat rag" on!
(that's what he and the boys call their bandanas!!!)

We had to walk back....a long way....to retrieve it!!! 

;-)

***Edited to add***

Thanks to my sweet friend, 

Ms. Norma....

....this is called "Indian Paint Brush"!!

June 20, 2011

Flowers blooming along the road at 

Seven Islands Game Refuge.

Does anybody know what they're called?

 June 19, 2011

Barns with flags at Seven Islands Game Refuge

(pics taken Memorial Day - 5/30/11)

June 10, 2011

Every now and again, God just blesses me with the perfect capture! 
I think this was one of them.  Again, I love thistles.  They're a reminder to me of the cross....painful....yet beautiful at the same time!!!

June 6, 2011

He opened up his....or her....wings just as I started to snap the picture....then, flew away!

I was grateful for the pose!!!

 June 3, 2011

As hubby and I hiked at Seven Islands Game Refuge on Memorial Day....we came across these weeds with "snake spit" on them.  

I hadn't thought about that stuff in decades.  We used to see it all the time growing up and playing in the fields and woods!!!  
Sweet memories!!!

(it's actually from a "spittlebug")

 June 2, 2011

Martin gourds!!

I'm always reminded of my father-in-law when I see these....

....he loved to sit on the back porch 
and watch the martins come and go!! 

But, those birds are MEAN!!!

Don't ask me how I know?!?

;-)

June 1, 2011

Queen Anne's Lace....or chigger weed?!?

You decide!!!

;-)

May 31, 2011

The wings remind me of stained glass....only GOD could create a living creature so beautiful....and perfect!!!  And...am I the only person alive who loves thistles?!?

Could it be because they're P-U-R-P-L-E?!?

(taken 5/30/11 at Seven Islands Game Refuge)