To Whom it may Concern:

I am currently wearing a mustache and talking like Inigo Montoya when I talk, so I thought I would write a blog post because I have been away for over a week.

Did I mention The Avengers in that last sentence? No? Well I did and it was amazing and I think I will make a run on sentence about The Avengers‘s amazingness and how perfect it was for a Thursday night in a semi-empty theater after you had injected AVENGERS into every conversation with a human being for the last month.

Every day I have listened to Pandora Radio and danced, the irises bloomed, bees are doing well, I was able to take a decent photo of one of the martins, and have I mentioned I am wearing a fake mustache?

I will get back into the swing ASAP. Be prepared!

Love,

Autumn

PS: If you get who I am talking about in the first sentence, you are the best… seriously.

The Open Road

Image via The National Library of Scotland on Flickr

So I have been learning to drive.

Yes, me, the semi-flaky, definitely klutzy, and generally lacking of common sense self has been learning to drive. Before you even think of asking: no casualties, animal or human alike.

I like driving. It’s quite the “free” feeling, all of that road and your Gram sitting in the passenger seat occasionally telling you to watch the speed limit because of that open road. (Side note: I have the speed thing under control… stops, I admit I am having difficulties.)

I was very reluctant to learn to drive. In fact, so reluctant that I didn’t drive at all for five months. Now that spring is here and all of my “regular” friends have licenses, I really really really would like to have one of my own.

So I have been driving. But not parking. That, my friends, is another story.

Photographer’s Plight

I donated my camera’s batteries to a worthy cause the Wii Remotes, so I’m out of pictures- again.

I wonder if this is all of the digital photographer’s plights? The constant need for batteries, especially when your camera plows through them faster than the shutter speed?

Singing in the Rain (Or Not)

Photo via State Library of New South Wales on Flickr

Rain. Definitely not the bane of my existence, but it comes close. It’s been raining here the last three days, so it’s given me plenty of time to sit around and do nothing but watch Sherlock on Netflix.

Although rain comes with its benefits- like the pansies going even wilder than when I wrote about them two days ago, seeing the irises getting ready to bloom, and the leaves on trees unfolding because of the rain. I’m glad to say that it doesn’t rain all the time, but when it does rain around here, it pours! (Or seems like it, thanks tin roof.)

Does it rain often where you live?

Don’t Feed the Bears!

Floral Fancies

Left: Rain Frosty Pansy // Right: Rain Purple Pansy

Tell you what- I may have the blackest thumb on this planet, but if there is anything I can manage to keep alive, it’s pansies. Well, with the help of Nature watering them when I don’t remember….

Anyway I have two types: Rain Purple and Rain Frosty. They have intermingled since last summer, so the current amalgamation I call “Purple Rain Frosty.”  The yellow/purple/white/blue blossoms are beautiful! I haven’t uploaded any pictures as of yet, but the ones above should give you an idea what they look like.

Pansies are one of my all-time favorite flowers, right at the top of the list along with daffodils and lilacs. The lilacs didn’t bloom this year, which is a shame, but last year they were just so gorgeous in every which way.

What sort of flowers are you, my Dear Readers, growing? I’m getting ready to plant some marigolds (apparently the bees love them) and we’ve got a pot of gladiolus coming along well. Have a happy Monday, and I can’t wait to hear from y’all!

A Word, Please?

Image via The Library of Congress on Flickr

 

Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.

~Psalm 34:8