May Flowers

Hydrangeas

Coreopsis

Garden Path

Peonies

Heavenly

The Tooth Fairy

Look who has lost her front teeth!!

Garage Sale Fun

I love garage sales and last weekend I helped with one at my son's house.

Most of the stuff on this table is mine. I'm trying to let go of things.

I love new or old cigar boxes.

This is a little picture of another of my favorite things - a teacup. I made it look like an oil painting by using ModgePodge. It has a great frame, too.

Little Av wasn't feeling good, but she was very interested in all the sales, and hung in there.

Here she is eyeing all of Grandma's junque. The dog rarely leaves her side.

Mom cleaned out her bookcase recently, and we had a lot of books, a virtual library!

I have a new camera lens and I was enjoying taking pics of our goods.

A whole stack of old music - but no one was interested. Oh well.

The newest member of the family was there, but he was not FOR SALE!

I have a new grandson!

Here is my daughter-in-law on Easter Sunday, the day before she went into labor.
The baby was born on Tuesday afternoon.

And here is the proud father holding newborn Nolan Charles!

Nolan was wide awake and looking around at us all right after he was born.

I love this picture of his tiny feet.

This is me holding my fourth grandchild.

A sweet baby mobile.

10 year old E holding his new cousin.

Squeeze me!

15 year old G holding his new cousin.

And 6 year old A holding her new cousin.

Mom meeting her newest great grandson for the first time. He is her 16th great grandchild.
We are all VERY excited!

100 ACRES

In celebration of the Spring Solstice, I went to a puppet/kite show at 100 Acres, part of the Indianapolis Art Museum. It was a beautiful Spring day, perfect for kite flying.

It was a very windy day, and the white wing-like kites were blowing hard. 

Music was played and a drummer was drumming as the story unfolded.

The puppeteers maneuvered giant bird-shaped kites through the air, depicting the story of egrets migrating.

At the end of the show, the children were invited onto the field to fly the kites they had created earlier. It was a beautiful and colorful scene.

Easter Chicks

When I was a little girl in the '50's, at Eastertime we would go to Murphy's Five and Dime Store to look at the chickens and ducks that were for sale. They were kept on a table and they were dyed in pastel colors. We would hear their chirping before we ever saw them, and we were always delighted to see them! Sometimes there would be dead ones among the living, but I don't remember feeling sad about them, or guilty or shocked that they were dyed. It's just the way it was. I found an article in the Huffington Post about how they still dye chicks at Eastertime, only now they use psychedelic colors, and it is only outlawed in Florida. Funny, I still kinda want one,and I promise to take good care of it!

Bandit

This is my first blog using my new iPad. There is a lot to learn. First of all, you must download the Blogger ap in order to upload pictures. I'm learning as I go.

Here is a picture of A with her doggy, Bandit.

Warm Wools for the Long Watch

I have joined a knitting group called the Irvington Fiberistas. We meet twice a month at the neighborhood library. It's quite interesting to see what everyone is knitting and there's always lots of helpful advice.

One night someone dropped off several boxes of knitting books and patterns that had belonged to an aunt. Ah, just what I love! I spent most of the evening digging through the boxes and found some treasures.

Here is a Minerva knitting booklet dated 1942 - during World War II. I couldn't photograph all the pictures, but here are a couple of the dashingly handsome men from 1942.

Here is another one "Knit for Victory!" Warm wools for the long watch.

This book is Copyright 1943.

Love these, but I doubt I will attempt to knit any of them!

St. Patrick's Day Parade 2012

After picking A up from Kindergarten on Friday, we headed downtown to the St. Patrick's Day parade. A's daddy was going to be in the parade, driving the fire truck for the police and fire chiefs. We stopped at McD's for a quick lunch and found a place to park close to the parade route. Then we sat on the curb and watched the parade go by. I love this picture of A's pretty hair with the Irish streamers.
It was very exciting when the fire truck came by with A's daddy driving!

Several roller derby girl groups rolled by doing tricks and dressed in outlandish costumes.

I got a kick out of this vintage fire truck with all the people hanging on.

And this was one scary-looking clown. I think she was a he.

Couldn't have a parade without kilts and bagpipes!

This picture was taken after the parade of A and her handsome daddy - so cute.

It was a lovely St. Paddy's Day in Indy - over 80 degrees in March! Crazy!

Cloudy

I was driving home the other day when a pattern in the clouds caught my eye. I grabbed my camera and shot these pictures out of the window. I'm not sure the computer does them justice, but it was quite dramatic!
And ever since, I can't get the Simon and Garfunkel song "Cloudy" out of my head, and it's 1969 all over again.

Cloudy

The sky is grey and white and cloudy

Sometimes I think it’s hanging down on me

And it’s hitchhike a hundred miles

I’m a ragamuffin child

Pointed finger-painted smile

I left my shadow waiting down the road for me a while

Cloudy

My thoughts are scattered and they’re cloudy

They have no borders, no boundaries

They echo and they swell

From Tolstoy to Tinker Bell

Down from Berkeley to Carmel

Got some pictures in my pocket and a lot of time to kill

Hey, sunshine

I haven’t seen you in a longtime

Why don’t you show your face and bend my mind?

These clouds stick to the sky

Like a floating question--why?

They linger there to die

They don’t know where they’re going, and, my friend, neither do I

Cloudy

Cloudy