Gone to seed

Broccoli gone to seed in my husband's garden last spring.
Currently, his garden spot is grown up in weeds as he was not able to plant anything this year before he died.  I'm not sure what I'll do with it next year, but I'm going to keep the fence up and keep the weeds beat down this year until I decide.  I have visions of becoming the old widow woman in the gardening hat with hoe in hand in a garden full of flowers.
We'll see what next year brings.

I am going to halt The Barn Collective for now.  I don't know if I will continue it at a later time or not.  I will be happy for someone to pick it up.  Just let me know.

Thank you to everyone for your kind comments and emails.  Words can be of such great comfort in times of grief.  We are very fortunate to have friends who have visited both at the hospital (two hours away) and at home, brought food, ran errands, looked after my mother, fed the cats, and even mowed the lawn.  My son and I are plodding along with each day.  He will be starting his permanent job next week after a delay due to the illness and death of his father.  I am glad he has something to occupy his mind.

Until next time.

It's cold in Alabama

The weather man down the road from us reported 5 degrees on their farm this morning.
Thought a sunflower might make us feel better.
This lady was 12+ feet tall and that sunflower is almost 2 feet in diameter.

Grey picket

Late spring fence

Sharing with Good Fences

Spilling corn

Yellow field corn being offloaded from the harvester into a transport container.

Garden spider

An enormous garden spider at my in-laws' a couple of weeks ago.

Huge.

About two inches at least.

Homestead

A favorite from 2010
On "the Lexington Road" in Lauderdale County, Alabama
The last time I went by, the barn had fallen.

Sharing with Rubbish Tuesday

Blazing

Gorgeous.
So, I thought the sunflowers I planted this year were going to be my flower obsession for the year.
However, they have been upstaged.

I bought a pot of these flowers at Lowe's the other day and can't stop looking at them.  They are so bright that I was tempted to dial down the orange saturation a little.  There is a Black Eyed Susan thrown in there too.

Sunflowers

I planted sunflowers this year.  Some of them are red and orange.

All of them are gorgeous.


I have been sporadic with the blog the past few weeks.  Just as my husband finished more chemo for the cancer that spread, my elderly mother fell and fractured her pelvis.  He is feeling much better and the hope is that he can have a substantial break before more treatment is required.  She is doing better in the rehab facility for now. I hope to return to a somewhat normal routine.  Thanks for visiting!

Summer colors

Here's my annual peach and blueberry contribution.

This year I have some green thanks to a few ears of corn in the background.

"Roas-neers" as my grandfather called them.

You know "roasting ears".  

Old church, black doors, yellow flowers

Trinity Episcopal Church

Florence, Alabama, U. S. A.

The Shoals

Sharing with Rubbish by Roan

and

Inspired Sunday

Thuh Field

Countryside

Not an unusual or remarkable fence, but it's a good one surrounding the picture perfect pasture.


Sharing with:
Good Fences with TexWisGirl @ The Run-A-Round Ranch

and

Rurality with Madge Bloom @ The View From Right Here

The furry children

Sometimes, just by luck, I get great shots of the cats before they look away.
Big'un and Peaches are siblings.  He weighs in at 17 pounds and is twice the length of her.

The Yellow Deli

Open 24/5

Pulaski, Tennessee, U. S. A.

Sharing with Madge Bloom @ The View From Right Here

Tanager

I believe these are Summer Tanagers.

Notice the female on the same branch as the male in this last shot.

All of these photos are heavily cropped.

The Tanagers are all over the place at

Joe Wheeler State Park Golf Course

Rogersville, Alabama, U. S. A.

American Goldfinch

I love seeing these little guys.  Bright yellow and tiny.

Sweet thing

American Goldfinch

I think it is a male.  Correct me if wrong on either count.

Christmas kitties

"All the ornaments are shatterproof".

At the golf course

At the golf course, a photo by Rose Street Reflections on Flickr.

On the other side

There seemed to be some interest in what was on the other side of the Mt. Zion swinging bridge that I posted the other day.   There is a pasture on the other side and one day in 2010, these gals, and possibly some guys, were there.

Then, on down the road a bit, some of their friends had just been called for feeding.

As far as crossing the bridge, yes, I have crossed it and it seems to be in pretty good shape.  It seems to have been built sturdily and has had some work done in recent years.

Use my "Mt. Zion" label for more.