{ Friday Foto Friends }

 I downloaded this pic from my phone and was going to come back and edit it on the desktop....

yesterday!!!

Anyway....here's my new little friend. He/she likes to sit in the window or on the back of the porch swing, if it's raining. Sage staring at him through the window doesn't phase him one bit. He's very determined to get into that little feeder and chow down on some sunflower seeds.

HOPE everybody is having a great Saturday!

{ On the porch }

 I think in the last couple of weeks I've only missed one morning of my front porch sitting. One of my favorite things is listening to the birds. They're waking up and welcoming the day with what I think of as praise. I think of my Daddy... he loved the birds! He especially came to mind yesterday when I heard a mourning dove... he really liked doves. If you love bird watching and listening, you might want to download the Merlin app. It's absolutely free and all you have to do is hit the sound identify button and it'll pick up and list the birds it hears. It's so neat! Here are a few I heard this morning....

Hope everybody has a great SONday! 

 

{ Friday Foto Friends #152 }

One of my favorite places at my Mom's is in the back field near the woods and I was over there this week hauling off brush.  As I was driving the mower thru the field I kept spotting pretty mushrooms so I parked and took some fotos.....

Yellow wildflowers.....

 I spotted this pretty little lady on the brush I was hauling.....

We've had a gorgeous week with chilly temps, bright sunshine and pretty blue skies - 

 my favorite time of the year!

HOPE everybody has a great weekend!

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{ Friday Foto Friends #131 }

It's good to be back hosting our Friday Foto Friends Link-Up! Again, thank you for letting me take a little break. I mentioned yesterday that I'll be having a giveaway because of a blog anniversary, but I'm gonna wait and share that on Monday!

I took these fotos of the baby robins on Saturday before Mother's Day. Late in the evening on Mother's Day, I told Pappy that I needed to go check on "my" babies and they were gone! There was barely enough room to hold the four little birdies!  

And, here's Momma (or Daddy, I'm not sure) making sure I don't do any harm to their kiddos.....

It's just amazing that a bird can create this.....

Not the clearest foto but here's one of the hawk before her babies flew away.....  

A blackbird taking a bath..... 

The wisteria blossoms didn't last very long before the heat got to the blooms.....

I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've had double red hot pokers and there were two like this.

Doesn't it look like a "red hot" heart?

An extreme close-up of a clematis!

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Have a great weekend, Sweet Friends!

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{ Friday Foto Friends #119 }

Some weeks I have very few fotos and others it seems I have way too many to share in one post. This has been a week of plenty because our temps here in East Tennessee have been ahhh-mazing, even breaking records set in previous years and I've gotten outdoors more.  I still managed to get some of my decluttering/purging done, but oh, how difficult it is to stay indoors on such gorgeous days smack dab in the middle of winter! 

Here are the ones I narrowed it down to share with Y'all, but it's still a bunch!

The daughter standing on her Momma's back!

 My beautiful Lenten rose blooming.

 My Momma and me on her 84th birthday this past Tuesday!  Yes, she's itty-bitty and no she does not color her hair. Isn't that amazing?!?!?  

 Found my very first rock this week!

 I took a walk over to the woods at Mom's and got a few fotos.....
lichen growing on a tree limb.

As much as I roamed those woods as a kid I'm not sure I ever saw this growth on an oak leaf. Google taught me that it's actually called a gall and there's a larva inside that fuzzy orange ball that matures into a gall wasp. You can read about it here. 

Mushrooms growing on a dead pine tree in Mom's backyard.

This silly squirrel.

He/she obviously loves sunflower seeds.

I told my brother that he even posed for me!

That's it.....

I'll share the rest next Friday and hopefully even more!

HOPE everybody has a great weekend!

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{ Friday Foto Friends #117 }

How's everybody doin'?

HOPE none of you are having to deal with the flu bug that seems to have invaded most of East Tennessee. Lots of the school systems have closed because so many kiddos and teachers are out sick.  Pappy and I have both been very blessed because neither of us got sick with the flu (praise the Lord) and I'm hoping and praying that we don't.  I told him yesterday that I didn't have any new fotos for today so I headed outside and snapped a few to share with Y'all today. 

This little sign hangs on our porch swing.

I took this foto because of my Momma. So many times in the last few months she's mentioned how blue the sky is and she doesn't see a single cloud.....

Hydrangea getting ready for spring.....

Nandina.....

Hyacinths peeking through the cold ground.....

Nandina Firepower.....  

I'm looking forward to seeing what fotos everybody shares today.

Have a great weekend!

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{ Friday Foto Friends #91 }

If you feed them, they will come! Okay, I know that's actually supposed to be "if you build it, they will come" but look at what showed up at the feeders. These sweet little creatures make my heart so happy.....

something I think both my brother and I inherited from our precious Daddy!

A shift in focus.

That sounds like a good topic for a future post!

😊

Taking a breather.....

This one right here thinks he rules the roost.  
He must have found the feeders first and he fights off the others.

Little meanie, he is!

  That's it!

It's all about the hummers today and I can't promise there won't be more because they just fascinate me.

Thanks to everybody who is so faithful to link up each week. I'm sorry that I've been so slack in visiting. Time just  gets away from me these days.

HOPE your Friday is fantastic and you have a wonderful weekend!

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{ Friday Foto Friends #85 }

So, how's every body's summer going so far?

Have you taken a vacation yet?

Where's your favorite place to go.....

beach, mountains, state parks, etc.?

Do you like to go swimming?

Are you a "happy camper"?
Do you enjoy yard work, or do you hire it done?

Inquiring minds want to know!

;-)

Here are a few pics I snapped this week.

I share pictures of my spider lace every year.  I absolutely adore this flower because the seeds  originally came from Mammie, my paternal grandmother, so they're priceless to me.  If locals would like some seed, let me know and I'll save you some this fall.

The gorgeous sky one day when I was working outside.

We spotted Bambi on the side of the road in Rocky Valley.

Fresh eggs from our kiddos.....
yummy!

Pappy and I shoveled 4 scoops of mulch on Monday of this week and he's paid the price every day since. 
 😢

This one is for my friend, Ms. Ann. We talked last SONday at church about how we both love shadows and this greeted me as I walked into the kitchen one morning.



So, that's it for me today.
Thanks so much to everybody who is so faithful to join in when you can.

HOPE y'all have a great weekend.....
stay safe!

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