Outdoor Wednesday - spring is here!!

I love everything about spring - the flowers - the promise of more flowers - the warm days - the sunshine - the car covered with soft yellow pollen (oh wait, I don't like that part - but you have to admit it does give the car a new look) - the leisurely days - the outdoors fun - oh I just love spring!!!

Come along with me and enjoy some flowers that were in my garden or friends' gardens - we all love to work in the yard!!!

A friend's lovely fence with petunias . . .

A clump of single roses . . .

What a pretty iris . . .

Lilac bushes that sweep you away with that heavenly scent . . .

These three were growing all together at a friend's house. . .

Bleeding heart - my white one is about to bloom any day now . . .

Columbine - I love their common name, Granny's Bonnet . . .

A whole field of iris . . .

One California Poppy . . .

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Wordless Wednesday - Earth Day

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Wordless Wednesday - Taxes

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Outdoor Wednesday

We came upon this Great Blue Heron one day while wandering down some side roads. We drove quietly up to him and I took all these photos from the car window. I thought getting out of the car would frighten him away. At once point I was so entranced with getting the photos that I had to remind myself to breath. It was a wonderful day!!!

Something jumped, and he didn't even blink an eye . . .

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Outdoor Wednesday

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More seagulls this week - I'm just fascinated by them, and they pose so nicely. . .

And fly over so often . . .

And pose again and again . . .

When I was a kid I remember the family story being told over and over about my grandmother being so upset when they would go to the piers in S. CA and the seagulls would fly over. She would quickly pull her hanky out of her purse and hold it on top of her head, and sure enough, she was the only one that got any "decorations" ( she just couldn't call it bird poop) from the seagulls, never failed.

I've never had that experience - so I still enjoy them - I love the sound and the feathers and the hopping about acting like clowns - I like it all.

Wordless Wednesday - Easter

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Three or More Tuesday

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A while back I bought some Holly dishes on ebay - but that isn't what I have three or more of today - though I do have way more than three pieces of holly dishes. The dishes came quickly - and in perfect shape - and an extra plate was included free. Then in two days I got a phone call from the seller. I was surprised to hear from him - I had not included my phone number in our dealings, but I'm in the phone book, so easy to find.

He had mistakenly sent another package to me, and it was meant for another buyer who wanted the plates they had bought, for Thanksgiving. It was nearing Thanksgiving and I said, indeed, I would return the package to him, unopened. He was very happy - I guess fearing that I would open the package, like the dishes and just keep them. That would have never entered my head, but non-the-less, he was happy.

So we watched for the package - and it didn't come - and it didn't come - and it still didn't come - and now we are two weeks from Thanskgiving. Finally, after work one day, there was the second package. Since no one was home they had left it on the porch. I would have just refused it if I had been home and it would have gone back to the sender. So the next day Don took the package to the P.O. and refused it and they sent it back.

I contacted the seller and he was beside himself with happiness, and said I could pick any one thing from his ebay store - which was full of lovely dishes. So I picked this little hand painted dessert plate. There were four of them in his ebay store and I couldn't make up my mind, but finally settled on this one.

And then the box arrived . . .

And also included this matching dessert plate . . .

And this dessert plate . . .

And THIS dessert plate . . .

I couldn't believe it when I saw all four of them in the box - what a generous gesture on the seller's part - I certainly didn't expect anything for simply sending the box back.

He told me that he had to send the mis-routed box by priority so the buyers could use them for Thanksgiving and he was so grateful that I had sent back the box that he wanted me to have all the dessert plates.

They are the prettiest plates I have - and we use them for very special ocassions - like a piece of cake and a cup of tea, or some nice warm cookies from the oven, or a scone fresh and hot. They are wonderful plates and have wonderful memories because of a generous ebay seller.