Sunnys Surprise

 rainbow of life .. the old giving back to the new so that life my continue

Well Sunny may have fallen over and looks like the Hunchback of Sunflowers. However he had a little, actually seven little, somethings to give me back my cheery disposition on his demise. I had a dream last night, nice sunny day. Ozzy (my lawn & garden guy for the summer) came over and said it was time to say goodbye to good old Sunny. With a heavy heart I agreed and down he came. I asked him to prop him up so I could dry him out and maybe get some of his seeds. And he did. I stared at the empty place were my first and only sunflower lived & died. It was sad. So when I woke up this morning I made it a point to take some pictures of him. Oz will be here this week and I wanted some before the big 'chop down'. However much of Sunny that can be seen is his stalk and giant green leaves, his face is nearly touching the ground now. I have to pull him up to take pictures of his face, such a sad guy. Today upon my solemn picture taking adventure, I found nestled in his bottom most leaves small surprises for me :D _B

 My seven! new baby sunflowers blooming and growing right off of Sunny :) You can see 5 here.

 second biggest pod

 these two pictures are nice, (1) focused in on Sunny (2) focused on his predecessor 

biggest one so far, has his own branch already and is the tallest

Sunflower Tres

 I just realized I have not been keeping you updated with my dear Sunny. Shame on me! I am sad to tell you he has gotten much much worse. Most of his bright yellow rays have fallen away or are shriveled and are starting to burn. Hes nearly touching the ground now, maybe 4 inches of clearance before he will Finally face plant. I had a dream about cutting him down last night. I do not think I could actually do that to him. Especially after today's discovery, but that is another blog altogether. I will up date you with the few photos I have taken over the last few weeks. Promise to keep you better updated and sorry for the long wait. _B

 

 I like this one because you can see the 'star' in the middle

 

 

 

 almost touching the ground only 4-5 inches to go

 

Randomly Random Things To Enjoy

Time for some randomness. Wish I had more time for pictures these days! Only 3 more weeks and summer classes are over. O, idea: Homework photo set? Our den is messy enough. I'll put that one in the think tank to get back to. For now here are this weeks randoms. Hope you enjoy them :) _B

Tee Hee. I thought this little hidden jem (inside another picture) was hilarious. My Headline: Man leaves wife after she whines to much during fishing trip.. What do you think?

 

These two pictures I love. You think you are looking at a toy (1), when really its the reflection of the toy on the table above in the puddle below(2).

 Sitting at my table looking up and over into the sky. I really do hate these wall dividers. Lost my view of the White Tank Mountains :( But I will enjoy my little oasis in the West Valley just the same.

 

 

pool water flooding my patio

 towels are necessary during summer

I love the illusion of this. You can see the dinosaur, the dinos reflection (so still and clear like its lying on glass) and then the ring on the bottom of the pool underneath.

Dust and Clouds

So much for my sparkly clean pool! Cleaned and filled and bright blue. Perfect for the babies to play in. However, much to their dismay and mine. By the time mom and dad got it cleaned out, re-blown up and filled the blue sunny skies turned dark and dusty. A thunderstorm was coming and it brought a big dust storm with it. So much for the clean pool! My girls in bathing suits watched from the patio, later from out the backdoor window, the dust cover everything in a cm of dirt and the wind blow their pool toys all over the yard. We were all pretty bummed out. But I got some pretty cool cloud shots and a few of the dust cloud coming in. Enjoy _B

Popsicles

You know its summer when you break out the popsicles and otterpops :) MMmmm. It was finally cool enough (under 110) to play outside but hot enough for popsicles. My little freezer raiders found the newest box and ate a one or two ... or as I discovered today while putting things away, the whole box!! Left the empty box in the freezer of course. _B

 

Awe. They didn't forget to bring mama a treat, dryer's fun size!

Jump Around

What happens when you combine 2 kids who want to go swimming, with a broken air pump and a deflated plastic puddle that used to be a pool? My two little geniuses turning on the hose and filling the pool puddle with an inch of water and splashing around in it until they were soaked. :) Enjoy_B

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just Big Enough

Poor guy. Didn't have a chance when sisters were around. But... Baby Will Play When Sisters Are Away :) Enjoy my Just big enough sneaky Baby __B

Back to playing with his truck like Nothing Happened ... Dont worry its our secret little man ;)