For this challenge guest host Dawn Miller has chosen Fences as our topic.
One of the first fences I thought of was Tom Sawyer’s Fence in Hannibal, Missouri.
This next fence from the Texas Hill Country is one of my favorites. I’ve included it it other challenges because I love the boots on top of the fence posts.
This next fence keeps people safe as they are walking along this mountain trail.
For this challenge Ritva Sillanmak challenges us to find Inspiration in the Kitchen and to show our favorite cup. The above image is a mug I got when our Labrador Retriever Blondie was very young. She’s been gone for several years now but every time I drink from the mug it reminds me of her.
We have lived in our home for over 40 years. Our kitchen has been through one total renovation and some of the appliances have been replaced more than once. I’ve spent countless hours in the kitchen preparing meals, cleaning up after meals, baking, and teaching our kids and grandkids how to bake cookies and cakes. The kitchen is a happy place.
Our kitchen and dining room are one big room divided by a kitchen peninsula that is like an island but connected to one wall. That peninsula has been used as a breakfast bar, a lunch counter, a space for baked goods to cool, a place for friends for family to gather around to eat appetizers, and as a buffet table for big meals like Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Time to eat!
Below, the two Tupperware items on the left and the Corning Ware casserole dish have been used thousands of times ever since I got them about 50 years ago. I still use them all the time.
A post about the kitchen wouldn’t be complete without some food. These next two images are two of the dishes I made for July 4th weekend. On the left is a shrimp pasta salad made with wild Georgia shrimp, fresh patty pan squash, mushrooms, broccoli and Vidalia onions. On the right is Southern Succotash made with fresh okra, butter beans, tomatoes, corn, Vidalia onions, bacon and basil for garnish.
Patti has challenged us to focus on telling a story with our images.
My story is the life cycle of a Monarch butterfly. I haven’t been able to capture Monarch’s in my garden this year so these images are all from my archives.
Female Monarchs lay their eggs on MilkweedCaterpillars emerge from the hatched eggs and eat the leaves of a milkweed plant. Milkweed is all they eat.The Monarch Caterpillar crawls to a place to form a chrysalis.The caterpillar changes into a butterfly while inside the chrysalis.A new adult Monarch emerges from the chrysalis
For this challenge our guest host Brian of Bushboys World asks us to show our interpretation of fragments.
I chose a few fragments of ancient dwellings. As I gazed at the remains of these buildings I tried to imagine what the lives were like for the inhabitants who lived in them. The first photo above shows ancient cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. The following images are from Colorado, Ireland, and Scotland.
Fragments of ancient Pueblo dwellings, Hovenweep National Monument, Colorado and UtahAncient Bee Hive Huts from about 2000 BC on Dingle Peninsula, Ireland, on the Wild Atlantic WayUrquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland
Wandering Dawgs 