Have You Called JENNY?

Someone needs to go on a diet.

Road Trip

View from atop Clinch Mountain




Closer to home!




Kudzu Monster!


The last two pix were taken out the car window as we drove along.

Home

If you look closely at the bottom of the pix, you can see a house sitting down in the valley with a light in the back yard.

Coleus and Persian Shield

Watermelon and Dark Star



Defiance and Watermelon



Defiance



Kong



Henna



Persian Shield

Winter

We lost this old dogwood this year in a wind storm.

Fine Feathered Friends

The goldfinches love the thistle sock we hung by the kitchen window this winter.


Female cardinal cracking a seed with her bill.


Suspicious blue jay at the suet feeder.


Female cardinal with two tufted titmice during heavy snow.

Piglet

Meet Piglet! Piglet loves birdseed.

Coleus and Zinnias

I am still trying to get a decent pix of the coleus. Nothing compares to seeing it in real life. It has grown huge. "Big as a wash tub", as we say around here.





I had been dead-heading the zinnias until I saw a goldfinch in them looking for seeds. I'll leave the dead-heads for the birds now. I should have known that.

My Magimatic Adventure

A couple of weeks ago, I went to Goodwill and found an old camera. I bought it for 75 cents. I took it out to the car and was amazed to find film still in it. I took the film to Walmart and they sent it off to be developed. I was pretty sure that it was too old to develop, or that maybe it hadn't even been used.

Two weeks later, I picked up my pix and found that 6 of the 10 pix had actually developed!



This little note was enclosed with the pix.


Here are a few of the pix:



I'm still trying to figure out what type of chair this is. It doesn't appear to have wheels, so I don't think it is a walker. It looks like it has sliding beads on the top bar.




These were obviously taken at Christmas time. Isn't she a cutie in her little blue fur coat!




And now for the shocker. I know this man! I couldn't believe it! I showed the pix to a woman at church that used to work with him. She estimated the pix to be from around 1977 based on the size of his two boys. The film in my camera was over 30 years old and it still was able to capture a moment in time.

Sweet Potato at the Bird Bath

Sweet Potato, king of the backyard, feigns sleep while lying in wait for unsuspecting birds...


This may take a while....................

Here's...

...why...


...I...


...love...


...the...


lovely...


...Zinnia!

My Summer Flowers

Sweet William, a lovely fragrant perennial


One of the many varieties of Dianthus, or as we call them "Pinks", also a perennial


My very first rose. No joke. I have never grown a rose in my life until this year. This is a potted mini-rose. I am afraid to put it in the ground. It has grown and bloomed all summer.


Ahhh, lovely dear zinnia. My favorite annual. Hopefully more pix of these to follow soon.


My first year growing Coleus. What an amazing plant! Just break them off and stick them in the dirt and they grow. I think they can also be grown indoors. I hope to have a better pix of these soon. This pix does not do them justice. They are gorgeous.


Campanula or Bell flower...This lovely plant is almost dead now after blooming its heart out all summer. I don't think it could tolerate the heavy rains. This is a perennial, if it survives the rain this year.


One of several petunias I have this year. All have outdone themselves including one that was almost dead when I rescued it on clearance at Walmart. It's in the pix with Sweet Potato. A very hardy annual.


The hummingbirds love Red Salvia and so do my guys. Another hardy annual also known as Scarlet Sage. Isn't that a beautiful name?

Our tomatoes are dying. One day they were healthy and green and the next they had the blight. We have had so much rain this summer. They are still loaded with fruit. I suspect that something similar happened to my campanula.

Finally...

Our tomatoes were slow to set on this year.


They grew very, very tall.


They grew bigger, but took their time turning.


Finally! True love and home-grown tomatoes! What more could you want? How 'bout some fried cabbage and cornbread!

Where's Waldo...er...Sweet Potato

Sweet Potato loves to sleep among my flower pots on the picnic table. I had to take this pix through the kitchen window because if I had went out, he would have been in my arms and I wanted to catch him snoozing. Sometimes, all you can see is a tail sticking out from among the pots. He is still the sweetest cat in the world.

On Mountains and Sky...

Normally, I can remember when and where I take my pictures. This one, however, has me stumped. I can't remember where I was, or when I took it. I know it was on a trip home and I asked dear husband to pull the car over so I could take a pix. Beyond that, I don't remember. I think it's pretty though.

I love our mountains, but you just about have to go outside and look straight up to even see the sky here. We are surrounded by mountains. I always enjoy looking at the sky when we travel. As long as I don't see too much of it. Flat land makes me very uncomfortable. I feel anchored and protected by the mountains.

From the pilot episode of Christy...

"...Nothing in my life had prepared me for the wonder of those mountains. Smoke blue and serene, folded one behind the other. I counted eleven ranges rising up toward the vault of the sky.

I didn't realize it then, but from the very first moment I saw them, the mountains were a source of peace and strength to me. Always there to quiet my mind and satisfy my heart."

I couldn't have said it any better.

Roaring Fork

It's a busy time for me, but these pix were too pretty not to share. We found this waterfall just down from an old cabin on the Roaring Fork Motor Trail up on Cherokee Orchard Road in Gatlinburg on our short vacation this year. This is one of the prettiest places I have ever seen. The pix do not do it justice.