Monday Musings ~ I Can't Help Fall-ing

 

Oh, I am so ready for fall!  

I was thinking yesterday that I really love where we live.  It's perfect 3/4ths of the year.  It's just this pesky summer season that is ruining it for me.  

But I digress-

It's the busy, busy time of year, with school starting and football games on the horizon.  I have one grand left in school and he is in the 8th grade.  He loves football, band and theater, and is one super smart kiddo.  His brother just started at ULR and is taking classes for cyber security.  Isn't it a crazy world that this is a thing?  Personally I have been hit at least five times now from my teacher association, two major stores, a patient portal and most recently by a local hospital.  How in the world does this keep happening?  Is this a problem everywhere, or just Arkansas? 

Well, enough complaining.  In fact, I have adopted this quote for the duration of this heat wave~ 

    HA HA!! Kinda favors me, here lately. 

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.  

I hear a fake fall is coming up for us this next week.  

I'll be enjoying it! 

Monday Musings ~ Blooms

Something is terribly wrong with my camera. It refuses to zoom focus.  Oh it will, for two seconds and then it fuzzes out.  I think I need a new camera.  (HA HA) 

 So, I have been digging through my old files while at the same time trying to delete doubles, triples and crops of the same photos.  Does anyone else do that?

(tons of pics of the moon, what the what was I thinking?)

I found this gorgeous purple morning glory/petunia shot from 2014 and this pink and green thistle from 2016.  I also found some WONDERFULLY COLD  photos of ice on tree branches and snow on the ground and weighing down tree limbs, but I didn't want to torture any other southerners who are also wilting in the humidity and heat as I am.  

(Fall is only 35 days away)

Y'all have a wonderful week.

Again, Fall is only 35 days away! 

Monday Musings ~ Brooding

Sunsets like this usually come after stormy days...but oh how pretty!
I wonder how many other people are looking at this very same sunset and what are they thinking?

It's been a great week around the ranch..and notwithstanding my crazy cat...pretty calm.
Have a great week, all.

(sorry my title is off by a day...didn't set my scheduler right. :))

Monday Musings ~ Mother Nature

Wanna-be storm cloud

probably made a puddle

17 inches overnight on the 16th flooded a nearby town or two, or three
This is a river that ran out of it's banks.

and Gilham dam letting all that extra water out.

My Crepe Myrtle is blooming
But
Where are the bees?

Maybe three, instead of hundreds. 

Goal: capture a photo of the ISS

(but that sucker was way too fast) 

Settled for the Full Moon 

It didn't appear to move, but geesh, I sure did.
I need a tri-pod. 

I'll leave you with a gorgeous sunset
 sinking under the
storm clouds. 

Monday Musings

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky