The ceiling in the Chihuly exhibit in Seattle

I love how this perfectly still glass looks as though it's moving!

Love the reflection!

Outside in the Chihuly Garden

Labor Day Weekend - 2012  I can't believe this summer is over, that in two short days, another school year will begin.  My summers always fly by, but then again, it seems to me that life is like that, always rushing by often leaving me breathless.  This summer I visited Seattle for the first time where my oldest, dearest friend, Amy, and her family, live.  It was 9 days of new adventures, breathtaking scenery, amazing food, and excellent company.  We swapped stories and reminisced about our days a young girls in Massachusetts.  I have known her for 40 years - WOW!

As I write this, our oldest, Rebecca, is preparing to leave for a semester in Vietnam - VIETNAM?  The girl who went just an hour away from home to college is now going to be living nearly 9,000 miles away for 3 1/2 months - again, WOW!  I could not be more thrilled for her, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't going to miss her tremendously.  I can't wait to see who she is when she gets back.  Rebecca, ever open, ever curious, ever growing, is about to expand in ways none of us has even dreamed of - and one more time, WOW!

While she is gone, our focus will be on Rachael and her senior year in high school.  I feel as if our whole family is on the threshold of a huge changes, and I am excited to see where they take us!  So, welcome September with your buttery yellow sunshine and your lengthening shadows.  Welcome September with your cool nights and crisp mornings; you always feels "new" to me, and I am ready.

I love flowers of all kinds - well, except for marigolds - and since I am completely "camera challenged" I don't have any of my own photos to share, so I searched the net and found these.  Looking at them is just pleasant.

There is something about pansies that I love.  Their bright, cheery faces pointed sunward just make me smile.

  I love the way this flower - morning glory, perhaps?? - appears illuminated from within.  

 Delicate. Open. Regal. Reaching. Proud. 

 Asian, I believe.  Frangipani? At least they look like flowers Paul photographed while in Taiwan  I look at them and I see carnival rides swirling, lifting, whirling  and tilting about.

I'm a "pink" junkie.  Have been since I was a little girl. I haven't any idea what kind of flower this is, but the drops of dew resting on the petals coupled with the vibrant colors is glorious.

These look like a party to me! SUCH FUN!

 

Ok, so the FIRST problem I have with this whole BLOG thingie is that I can't figure out how to go back and change its name.  You'll notice that the "I" in "LIve" is capitalized and that's just BUGGING me beyond reason.  I could lie and say it was some kind of artistic technique, but the-fact-of-the-matter is, I held the shift button down too long.  It's going to make me nutty every time I look at it if I can't figure out how to fix it.  Blerg..

July 4, 2012

A blog?  Really?  I'm going to start a blog?  Maybe.  This will be my first post on a thing like this, which I don't really understand and am not sure I'll ever do anything with, but what the hey...