Tansy in the Garden

 Tansy has invited us out to the garden today....

Pick a hat, any hat! Let's go!

after working in the garden, Tansy likes to sit and take a break in her chair

(you can tell she works so hard, her hair and make-up are perfect LOL)

Enjoying the sights and sounds of the garden. Birds sing and chatter, bees buzz about, dragonflies drift, butterflies float and flutter, chickens jabber and gossip, guineas holler, horses and donkeys snort, stomp, whinny, and bray, hummingbirds HUM, right? LOL

a "tansy sized" squash, LOL

Let's go see the "old Maids"! they are growing fast and are taller than Tansy now, LOL

so hard to get good pictures of these woodpeckers! And I love watching them.

"Sometimes, in summer, the world (our backyard) looks so glorious you expect animatronic Disney butterflies to appear...." Jill Herzig

(I love that saying!)

Busy in the kitchen now, cutting up fresh watermelon. "Tansy" does a great job, LOL.

 Our chickens and guineas LOVE WATERMELON. Especially if it's been in the icebox. They love that cold treat on these SWELTERING hot summer days. I call it their "popsicles". LOL

do you love or hate watermelon? Do you put salt on yours? 

Tansy is so happy we strolled about her lovely garden today!

Thanks to all who stopped by!

I shall try to come visit y'all later today!

Charleston Scenes and Summer Reads

We were in Charleston last week so I have some pictures.

I made the picture above a few years ago, I love the colors!

"Built mainly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the cosmopolitan charm of the burgeoning port city had attracted wealthy merchants and planters who had enthusiastically  built homes to escape  the hot summers inland. The first Civil War shots fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor marked the beginning of the rapid decline of the South's-and Charleston's- affluence. Even during the difficult Reconstruction years, most Charlestonians were financially unable to replace their early structures with the more modern Victorian homes being built elsewhere in the country. It was simply because of circumstance that over eight hundred original structures had survived not only the war, but later hurricanes, fires and earthquakes, to stand before him today. And so Charlie had grown up knowing the narrow, crooked alleys, fine wrought iron, boot scrapers, brass locks, and arched fanlights. He wouldn't have it any other way."
........Margaret Ann Reid

one of my most favorite alleys

Summer Reads

I finished the book below, it was good!

These books are in my "to read" stack:

I read this one, it was pretty good:

in the stack:

These two by  Lisa Wingate and Patti Callahan Henry I finished and they were very good!

 Will read the one below soon:

So, have you read any of these books and do you have any to recommend that you are enjoying?

I hope everyone is staying safe from the high heat and the storms that went through.

Take care