A comparison to last year....

This is last years bid for a Merry Christmas...needless to say, it was a beautiful one and I was thrilled with the new direction that I felt I was going into. I was a country girl from WAY back and still love some elements of it... however, a friend got me hooked into the sparkly side of life and here we are with the hybrid country/chic Christmas we see here now... !
This is last years idea of the hybrid... I am in the decorating mode again this year and will post new pics on here as per my camera being full and needing to expel all pics... that does take a bit, you know...!
I am going ahead with the same idea for this year... will have new ornies to show off and a new location of the tree but otherwise, I will see if I can make this a different yet similiar holiday look...

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you know, you find something fun to put on your blog and it doesnt' come through.... how annoying!
anyhow,I will try again...

Summer and Storms...

We have been besieged by summer storms this year... I am sure that everyone knows about Big Valley Jamoboree... this is a picture of that particular storm from another part of the province... big storms... and yet, they are sure pretty...just get past the dangers and the death and the destruction and you get pretty! :)

and more... man I love these homes!

*and more!!! I know that there are two pics of the last house but you have to see how big this 'modest' home is! It is actually huge...and built in 1895... it was one of the original homes built in this neighborhood and undoubtedly, was one of the babies... the others truly are monsters in comparison.. yet, this one has charm and a sweet hominess that the others dont' quite pull off. They are gorgeous, to be sure, but in reality, when it comes to 'home', I think this one actually seems more like our image in our heads. Mind you, if there was a choice between this one and the other larger more austere ones, well... yah, I would be tempted to go big!

A Trip into the Past

*these lovely ones are from a recent trip to Sioux Falls South Dakota... they are absolutely breathtaking and I really was upset to find that I had missed the open houses down there by a week..YES, they let you walk through these old girls and see how beautiful they are inside and out... and IMISSED it. SO not fair. I figured that if I had gone 23+hours down there to see them, that , REALLY, they should just let me see the inside when I got there, open house or not.... apparently they did not feel the same way. And no, I didn't go door to door begging to see the insides of these pieces of history....though perhaps I should have...instead I simply looked and clicked away with my trusty camera...and had to leave unfulfilled .... :(

a photo or two....

~bits of vintage past..I look at these pictures and I can't imagine living in a dress that big and heavy when it is so hot and muggy outside...and no ice, or refrigeration? I am in awe that humans made it through that kind of torture!~

I am, however, envious that these ladies knew what fine linen was...fine silk and lace...hand tatted edgings and tiny stitches... I wish that we had that kind of workmanship now and that it was the norm, as opposed to the usual awkward stitching and substandard work that we buy daily... How wonderful to have a trousseau and to be taught these arts by rote..nothing out of the ordinary; simply what a woman needs to know to create beauty around her ....~

This week in Spring!

And this is this week! I am thrilled to see new life coming out of my garden! I have been putting a lot of perennials in the front beds these last couple of years and now they are sprucing the place up with little or no effort from me... a couple of annuals, as I love my snapdragons!, and my front beds are full and ready to delight the eye for another year! now... on to the back yard...argh!