A Cool Sunny Sunday! :) Butterfly garden greetings! :) golden glow of the summer sun! :)
Happy sweet Summer Garden Sunday!!! :) We're enjoying a great day, and a sweet summer time weekend, as the month of August is blossoming nicely :) Golden Glow of the summer sun! :) We have lots and lots of flowers blossoming in our garden, it's wonderful to see :) our snowball bush is in full bloom :) it's a wonderful time to take in, soaking up all of the nature and gardening energy and sights of classic, golden summer time nature :) our plants are doing awesome :) We're enjoying the wonderful fresh garden goodies :) for dinner yesterday evening, i cooked sauteed yellow squash, zucchini, string beans, with rice, with butter, garlic, onion, and pepper :) it was delicious! :) We gave our plants some nice waterings today, they're super mega growing :) the sunflowers are reaching for the sweet blue sky! :) we love it!!! :) they're so tall, and our popcorn plants are doing great :) we have many different kinds of flowers blossoming all around our yard :) my mom came outside with us :) We saw a beautiful butterfly landing on our zinnia flowers :) i got some incredible picture taking opportunities! :) it's so much fun, exploring the yard, and garden :) seeing lots of happy birds, butterflies, bees, ladybugs, and lots more :) The nature is spirit soaring :) i took some new pictures of our plants today :) we look forward to more nature walks, and gardening this upcoming week, and gearing up for the kid's birthday party celebrations beginning next saturday :) There's lots more summer time fun, and adventures to look forward too :) i've been doing some nice writing this weekend, letters, and cards :) Holly and i are having a TWD, season 2 marathon today, watching our dvds :) we're rewatching the TWD seasons, leading up to season #10 in October :) Thank you angel friends, for the very special joy you all bring to our days, and our lives :) We treasure your very special friendships :) enjoying a great day, and an awesome weekend with family, friends, nature, and summer time spirit :) We're ready to blossom into another summer week :) iced coffee cheers!!! :)
Spirit of Summer Time! :) iced coffee cheers!!! on this beautiful summer day! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great summer day :) The summer sun is shining bright, and lots of our nature friends are out and about :) the birds are flying, the bees are buzzing around our garden, and butterflies floating around, and enjoying all of the flowers in our garden :) the nature, and gardening energy is amazing! :) We're loving the spirit of the season, all of the glowing nature, and many special memories being made :) Our plants are in full summer growing, and blossoming mode :) it's incredible and so neat to see, how much everything has grown :) We're so happy, and excited about harvesting goodies, and sharing the goodies with family :) during the evening yesterday, i cooked sauteed yellow squash, zucchini, and string beans, with onion flakes, black pepper, and garlic powder :) i also made some rice :) it was a delicious dinner :) we're trying all kinds of recipes with the fresh goodies from our garden :) it's a beautiful and very rewarding time in the season, and so much more to look forward too :)
Summer Sunshine, and spirited joys of nature! :) This morning, we had a beautiful new summer day rising and shining :) The birds have been up early, ready to gather goodies :) i love hearing the birds singing, especially early in the morning :) it's a wonderful joy, those nature tunes :) we're enjoying the sunshine this weekend :) the plants are in all of their sunny glory, and our nature friends are very happy too :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies this morning, and went outside for my early morning nature walk :) The sun was rising up :) i put lots of goodies in the bird sanctuary area in our yard:) the birds love gathering in this area, enjoying goodies :) it's so neat, to see our nature friends all around :) It's an awesome sunshine weekend to take in and enjoy some wonderful nature sights :)
Our plants are super mega growing in the summer sunshine :) i was walking around our yard, checking our plants :) They're doing really well, growing and flourishing :) in our garden area on the side of our driveway, the gourds plants are growing wild, including one that's grown up into one of our apple trees, and there's gourds growing :) we also have lots of Kentucky wonder pole string beans growing amongst the garden fences, some radishes, tomatoes :) it's a flourish of garden goodness :) we love seeing how much the plants have grown :) We have grapevines on 2 sides of our yard, that are producing lots of grapes :) it's the biggest season we've had for grapes growing :) We'll be able to harvest grapes later on this month :) it's gonna continue to be a big harvesting month, lots of cucumbers, tomatoes, string beans, and popcorn cobs :) it's awesome to see how much the cobs have grown :) some of the cobs are full sized grown now :) we always leave the cobs on the cornstalks until they've grown fully, and then the cobs begin to dry a bit :) it's gonna be so much fun harvesting the popcorn, we're looking forward to the whole process :) we'll also be using our cornstalks as a special part of our fall season decorations in the months ahead :) We're getting so many wonderful joys, from our gardening :)
It's a wonderful gardening season :) We feel very blessed, and thankful to be able to grow lots of garden goodies, flowers, and sharing our adventures and pictures with everyone :) We're cherishing seeing lots of happy natue friends enjoying our garden too :) every day, it amazes us, to see how much the plants have grown over the past couple months :) The sunflowers are so tall, and growing toward the sweet blue sky :) The sunflowers will be blossoming soon, for some cool sunny garden party's!!! :) woot! :) We have a beautiful wave of colors of summer blossoming all around our front yard garden areas :) from our snowball bush, roses, to all of the flowers blossoming in our plants :) it's a big season for flowers, lots of marigolds, zinnia's, and petunia's :) my mom's so excited! :) her petunia flower plant is blossoming again :) during the very extremely hot weather weekend a couple weeks ago, the heat affected her purple petunia's plants. i actually moved it into the shade, when i noticed the heat and sun was affecting it. i have watered and watered it very well, each day when there's sunshine, and the plant is back in the sunshine now, and is blossoming, new beautiful purple petunia flowers :) the gardening season journey is amazing :) We're enjoying our garden very much, and sharing it with everyone :) There's still lots more summer time nature, and gardening adventures to look forward too :)
It's a sweet spirited sunny sunday :) We've all been hanging out today, enjoying some iced cold drinks :) Holly and i went out for a nature walk, and gave our plants a nice watering :)The plants soaked up the water nourishment :) there's nature sights all around :) my mom came outside with us :) we saw a happy beautiful butterfly land on our zinnia flowers :) i took some awesome cool nature pictures! :) wow!!! :) it's very exciting, how at any time, a butterfly, or bird could land on a flower, or plant, and it becomes a cool nature memory from the wonderful sight :) We picked a cucumber today :) we're enjoying the cucumbers very much :) from time to time, i make some cucumber sandwiches :) our dear friends Debbie (Sunsetyellow2) and Brooke (CedarBrooke) shared recipes :) i love those cucumber sandwiches :) they're awesome! :) we'll be harvesting more goodies, this upcoming week too :) i think another 10 days or so, we could see our first sunflower blossom of the season :) We look forward to seeing all of the sunny sunflower smiles :)
We've had some family over to visit this weekend, my brother Bobby and family stopped by, and Alyssa and the kids came over :) we're looking forward to the upcoming birthday's :) next saturday, is Mikey's birthday party, Taylynn's birthday party is on the 14th, and Alyssa and Aj are hosting a birthday party for the triplets, on August 17th :) it's gonna be a big stretch of days, and weeks, lots of fun times, and celebrations :) We look forward to celebrating with everyone :)We're gonna put together gift bags for the kids :) i've been continuing to browse online on amazon, ebay for gifts for the kids :) We're looking forward to seeing them open their gifts, for their birthday :) lots of awesome times, and many great memories being made :) You all will be with us in spirit, during these special times :)
Today, we've been having some nice foods, snacks, and drinks :) Holly and i are watching season 2 episodes of TWD show :) We're rewatching the older seasons, leading up to the season 10 beginning in October :) We love rewatching the seasons :) i've been enjoying a great writing weekend too :) i'm writing cards, and letters :) i love my writing times :) it's such a nice relaxing, and peaceful joy, writing :)We'll be going to the post office on super wednesday :) i'm also looking forward to doing some more organizing, and decorating this upcoming week too :)
We're enjoying a great day, and a sweet summer time weekend :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) Holly and i are enjoying our TWD marathon, watching season 2 of TWD :) we're gonna continue to have TWD marathons on sunday's, leading up to the new FTWD episodes, and TWD season 10 :) We're so happy and excited about how well our plants, and garden are doing :) everyone is growing very well, with the spirit of the season :) We look forward to picking more fresh garden goodies this upcoming week :) We look forward to the new week, and all of the special joys :) nature walks, gardening, writing, we also have sweet treats tuesday, super wednesday post office adventure, ghost hunters party, and lots more, leading us into another super fun baking friday adventure, and Mikey's birthday party next weekend :) i look forward to sharing all about our weekly adventures, traditions, lots of nature, and garden pictures :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, and for the very special joy you all bring to our days, and our lives :) You all are very nice, sweet, and very caring :) we deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) big group happy caring sunny sunflower friendship hug :) There's many more special times, and great things to look forward too, with family, friends, nature, and the awesome spirit of summer time :)
-never lose hope :)
To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's a sweet weekend, enjoying some nature, gardening, and writing time :) it's so neat, to see the sunflowers growing very tall :) We're ready to blossom into another summer week :)Thinking of you, our dear friend :)
my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a really good day, and weekend" :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day, and weekend :) We think of you and your family often :) You all are always in our thoughts, prayers, and in our hearts :) Thank you all, for the very special joy you all bring to our days, and our lives :)
Golden Glow of the Summer Sun! :) Butterfly Greetings, from our garden! :) awww! :) This is such a beautifully sunny day, with spirit soaring nature all around :) our nature friends are out and about today, on this wonderful sunny summer day :) We're enjoying some nature walks, tending our plants :) They're doing really well, growing and flourishing with the season :) We're so happy and excited! :) my mom came outside with us :) we gave our plants a really good watering :) we have lots of sunny flowers blossoming, fruits, and vegetables growing :) it's a wonderful time in the season :) i took some new pictures to share with everyone :) happy nature, and garden season smiles :)
BUTTERFLY! :) oh my! :) This was so awesome cool!!! :) my mom, Holly, and i saw this very happy butterfly visiting our garden, and landing on the zinnia flowers :) The butterflies get nectar from the flowers :) We love these special nature moments :) i took some pictures of the butterfly :) happy garden smiles :)


String beans blossoms growing :) these are Kentucky wonder pole string beans :)

Cucumbers :)



Hi angel friends :) Holly took a picture of me next to our tall sunflowers :)

Gourds pumpkins :)


Tomato :)

Popcorn plants, lots of popcorn cobs growing :)









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Hi Chris Glad you and your family are having a nice day enjoying your Sunday. It's a sunny warm day here. I enjoyed seeing your awesome photos Love the butterfly and your beautiful sunflowers and other flowers too.So many great looking fruits and vegetables,Such a wonderful growing season and a big harvest season. It's awesome. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good evening Hugs to everybody-Stephanie
Hi Chris, Happy to hear you are doing well.Glad everyone there is enjoying their summer. Your pictures are so nice. You do have a green thumb.First time I heard of a cucumber salad. Sounds refreshing.Take care and tell everyone I said hello!!
Hey Chris, what gorgeous photos of the butterfly and your garden. It all looks SO wonderful. Glad you're having a great summer. Do you get many mosquitoes? We are having a huge amt of them this year. :(
That sunflower is very tall. You look like you lost more weight. You are look good. We like look at your garden pictures. Your garden look real good and cool.
Just beautiful pictures, especially the butterfly. Another hot/humid day. Much needed rain coming tomorrow into Wed. Sunflowers are certainly reaching for the sky & your popcorn plants look awesome! Thanks for sharing. I am going to make a crustless zucchini pie this week. Hugs! Brooke