Easy Living

I like summer. A lot.

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Boom

The flower beds have exploded! The sweet peas are everywhere. Same with the poppies, though I didn't photograph those today.

I hadn't seen that yellow cactus flower before - I kind of freaked out. I took a bunch of pictures, but these were the only exciting ones. Still, it is such a neat plant!

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Title of Post

If spring wasn't here already it is now. Everything is blooming like crazy. My favorite are all of the trees I see on campus that are blooming. A big old tree with flowers all over it - how could that not be cool? Anyway, this is a vine in my back yard that is positively covered in these flowers. I'll try to get a picture of the trees at school soon!

Open Wide

Flowers everywhere. I love it. What I love even more is the little vines that grow from the sweet peas. They wrap around everything and are so cute, yet purposeful. Combining form and function! Win win.

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Budding

So much is blooming right now. This is easily the best looking time of year. It helps that the weather is fantastic too!

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Dash

This morning, the weather was lovely. As evidenced by these pictures. I was so excited to go for a run when I got home. Yeah, it's raining now. No running. Hopes dashed. I do love that poppy though...

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Remembrance

The editor is being stupid and I am angry enough at this point that I don't have anything to say.

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I said farewell to Gary today. He was almost 100 days old (here is the beginning, and here is the complete progression). He lived a long life. He was a good friend. As green hairs were replaced with brown, we only grew to appreciate his wisdom and age more and more. Goodbye our fair friend. You shall be sorely missed.

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Amazed

We've had this succulent for a while. I've always thought it's super cool! Well, I go on outside today, and it has all of these neat little flower buds! Sweet right? I'm going to try really hard to remember to photograph them when they all open. Nature is freaking amazing.

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Niceness

Today was nice for several reasons. Taking photographs that I like always helps!

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Finally

I finally found out that these fun little guys are called venidium. I like them a lot.

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Mummy

Mums the word! :)

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Open and Close

Okay, so I still don't know the name of these flowers, but I really really like them. They close up at night and reopen in the daytime. And my mom cut some and brought them in the house and put them in my nice, clean bathroom.

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Opening

A new year? Already? That is so strange to me. Time only moves faster, even when we want it to stop forever. But here's to a year of new possibilities and seizing the day to do something fantastic.

Anyway, every winter we grow Iceland Poppies (photos 1 & 2). They are the funniest little flowers. They look all types of excellent, but after a day they drop all of their petals at the slightest dirty look or gentle sneeze somewhere in the vicinity. But they do make for a really neat photograph.

Oh, and everything is wet because the sprinklers and wind gave the surrounding flower beds a nice little spray.

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Party It Up

My mom got some flowers at work for her birthday. I though I ought to capture them. That is pretty much my thought process with everything these days-

Ooh, that's neat/fun/pretty/unusual/fancy/gorgeous. I ought to photograph that. I wonder how I could make it more visually interesting...

And there you have it, folks - the workings of my mind. Simple, but oh so sweet.

Celebration

Happy Birthday to Mom! These are a few things we got for her. And as a thoughtful son, I thought she'd enjoy some flowers in addition to the presents we got her. ;)

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