Tulips for Pauline

Pauline and Milo are my friends. Milo passed away recently. They lived in Pampa TX. Both, salt of the earth. I love them soo much, I just met them this summer, but I felt I knew them my whole life. Milo was a wonderfully creative person, and Pauline is, a most special woman, who makes you feel so loved, and so accepted. Thank you both for sharing your lives with me. Pauline, these tulips are for you. Bless you, Pauline, come see me. It will be wonderful for you to get away and see Washington with me. Love, Sherry
Tulips for Pauline.

Some art work.....

Arms Akimbo


ARMS AKIMBO
[Q] From Sharlene Baker, USA: “Since akimbo means ‘In or into a position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward,’ why the redundancy of arms akimbo? And where did this unusual word come from, anyway?”
[A] It’s certainly one of the odder-looking words in the language. The first spelling recorded was in kenebowe, which turns up in a work called The Tale of Beryn that dates from 1400. This looks as though it ought to come from an Old Norse source that meant something bent into a curve, but it has never been found. (The last element in the word is essentially the same as our bow for a curve.) The phrase went through several shifts, variously being written as on kenbow and a kembo, arriving at our modern form in the eighteenth century.
Strictly speaking there’s no redundancy, as the word could in theory be applied to anything bent into a curved shape. But from the very earliest recorded references, it seems to have been used exclusively in reference to that characteristic position of the arms, so the phrase arms akimbo has for many years been a fossil idiom, with the redundant arms given respectability by convention.
Though at first it was a neutral phrase, the posture it describes is one that implies defiance, aggressiveness or confidence, and these emotions have become attached to the phrase. Charles Reade used it in The Cloister on the Hearth: “Suddenly setting her arms akimbo she told him with a raised voice and flashing eyes she wondered at his cheek sitting down by that hearth of all hearths in the world”; and Anne Brontë wrote in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall that “Mr Hattersley strode up to the fire, and interposing his height and breadth between us and it, stood with arms akimbo, expanding his chest, and gazing round him as if the house and all its appurtenances and contents were his own undisputed possessions”.

Horse with a face, I named Blue

I have some beautiful ranunculus in my garden, I had to share....

and yellow ones with a bug:

I also have beautiful parrot tulips, and some rhodies in bloom. It is so beautiful now with azealas and all these flowers blooming all over the place. Flowers are good!

Tents for a tent lover, you have to take a look!

more tents from India..so cool!http://mukilteodailyphoto.blogspot.com/search?q=tents

butterfliesforyou.com

see butter fly
It has come to my attention that butterflies are being bred and sold for release at weddings, etc. They range in price from 65.00 to 100.00 per dozen in containers that release a bunch, or about 12.00 each in personalized envelopes. I wanted to buy some butterflies, we seem to have a shortage here where I live. So I e-mailed a place and they said Washington doesn't allow you to buy butterflies from out of state. Maybe that is what our apple maggot quarantine is about?
At any rate, I am a little disappointed that I can't get flutterbees for my garden. I have learned they love milkweed for their larvae to eat. I am prepared to plant milkweed for butterflies to come live with me.

Invasion of the slugs

Last year I planted some sunflowers. They grew up to about 4 feet, and had nice heads on them, the stalks were think, about 1.5 inches round. The next day, the head was gone on 2 of them, soon they all disapeared. Where is that slug, he must be some predator by now, eating his way to the tropics to find more and more food to feed his expanding girth! Ok,. so maybe it isn't one 5 ft long slug, but a pack of slugs. you don't want them in your neighborhood!

The sun will come out tomorrow....

Apple of my Eye

I refer to my computer, of course!

When the Queen of Hiking gets left behind