New apple, dangling

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 9/2/2010 (yep, that's yesterday!):

 We have an old apple tree in our front yard.  The first apples of the season have appeared outside our living room window and have captured our attention.  The one pictured above is up rather high and just dangling at the tippy end of a branch, just hanging straight down as if just waiting to drop.

Paul and I have been watching The Botany of Desire on netflix and finding it fascinating.  I'd highly recommend it.   It is based on Michael Pollan's book.
(I think it's funny that his last name is Pollan -- get it, pollen?)
The first section is about apples. 
Here's a link to the PBS website with more information,
including lesson plans and a look behind the scenes.

Sailor's warning

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 9/3/2010:

Connecticut awaits Hurricane Earl today.  So far, it's just a gorgeous morning here, although really, really hot.  The photo above is taken from my deck.  

It made me think of: 

Red sky at night, sailor's delight

Red sky in the morning, sailor's warning

Check out this Library of Congress page to see if this adage is true.

Night-night

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 9/1/2010:

Finish each day and be done with it. 

You have done what you could. 

Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; 

forget them as soon as you can. 

Tomorrow is a new day; 

begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit 

to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some nights I just really, really love this quote.
Night, all!

Butterflies in the stomach, love in the heart, & a smile on the face

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/31/2010:

 I am loving these photos.  I took them at the bus stop this morning - Emma's first day of middle school - and I kept looking back at them throughout the day.  I love all the photos I took, ones with the bus, the dog, and Annie.  There is just some quality in these two that kept drawing me back.  I think I see a glimpse of Emma growing up here, like I can almost see it as it is happening right here in this moment that I caught on film (do we call digital photos film?).  And, this glimpse didn't fill me with pain and loss and fear and gunky-gunk that change usually brings on, instead I am filled with a calm, excited, happiness.  Looking at Emma as she is caught in this moment brings a sense of relaxed, contented, it-will-all-be-alrightness (I do love making up names for things).

~Just let it be~

More fun than a prince ;-)

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/30/2010:

Guest photographer, gone swimmin'

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/29/2010:

 Paul caught these!

Love them - and appropriate for today as we  squeeze more outdoor fun in the sun out of August, the Sunday of months.

Guest photographer, smooch!

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/28/2010:

 Annie Mae, age 8, snapped these great photos while at Otis.

Love them!
There's a comforting sort of "1970's- found old photos of your parents"
quality to them. 
After years of not allowing any photos to be taken of me, I must say,
it's so nice to see these.  Thanks, Annie!

Go with the flow

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/27/2010:

Going with the flow...

Dog Days...

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/26/2010:

Cherry on Top at Hall's General Store

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/25/2010:

One of our favorite spots at Otis Reservoir is the
ice cream counter at Hall's General Store.

Yummy sweetness!

Shhhh....

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/24/2010:

~Ugly Cake~

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/23/2010:

 My Ugly Cake - designed and decorated with much love and joy
by Emma and Annie to resemble an Ugly Doll.
 I do think those Ugly Dolls are adorable, but not as cute as this cake!

 My birthday is often celebrated on vacation.  It was even when I was a child.  "On vacation" birthdays require a high amount of creativity on the part of the party organizers.  I can remember my family scurrying about secretively, defrosting a Pepperidge Farm cake in the hotel bathtub. 
I think Emma and Annie did a wonderful job with my Ugly Cake.
It topped off a delicious and relaxing take-out lobster dinner
on the lake at Otis Reservoir.  Just perfect!
And, then when home, on my actual birthday, I was treated to more love in the form of omelets with candles, Nanny McPhee, and brownies with ice cream.
I'm a lucky gal!

Thanks everyone!

Old Sturbridge Village Garden 8

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/22/2010:

Phlox along the fence

 (and a Happy Birthday to me)

Old Sturbridge Village Garden 7

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/21/2010:

  Fairy-topia!

Old Sturbridge Village Garden 6

Creative Every Day/Flickr Project 365 photo for 8/20/2010: