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IPhriday Photo Challenge: YOU r LOVED!

YOU r LOVED

YOU r LOVED

A couple of weeks ago, when I was out walking my dog, I saw the neighbor boys, I’d say around ten to twelve in age, hovering along on their boards. They said hey and I said hey and we went on our merry way.  Returning to my house, which is a little off the beaten path, I saw the boys scurrying around the corner of the way (I have a Way to my house you see) going to their house.  Heads down, no more waves.  Hmmmmm………

When I got to my door there was a note on it. YOU r LOVED.

My first reaction was, Did they just leave me a note?

Then I thought, Do they leave all old ladies a note?

Then I thought, Do they carry sticky notes and pens around with them when Hovering?

Then I thought,  Was the note a church project, or something like that?

Then I thought, I AM THINKING TOO MUCH! Simply enjoy the Note! YOU R LOVED!  I saved the note. I think a lot of people could use the note this week! I think many of us need the message on Good Friday! Thank You!

PS If the boys didn’t leave the note, then I have a secret admirer, and that’s a good thing for an old lady too! It’s good to let your husband know somebody else loves you too!

Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays! It is great fun getting outside to see what is going on!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Red Orange

Red Orange in Quebec City, Canada

Red Orange in Quebec City, Canada

They really know how to do big, bright, and Red Orange in Quebec City! I wonder how many plants it takes to fill this planter? If you like gardens, Quebec City is fabulously decked out all year long! Kudos to their gardeners! For more photos of Quebec City, just look HERE!

Red Orange, a Crayola color since 1930, is also known as Mandarine Orange in Mexico, Juicy Orange in the “So Big Set”, and Cajun Crawfish Orange in the color for Louisiana in the “State Crayon Collection.”

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge

Check out some of the other 150+ challenge participants, it’s amazing what we have done with the Crayola colors!

Color Your World:120 Days of Crayola; Red

 

Red Trolley of New Orleans

Red Trolley of New Orleans

Well as would be expected there is much ado about Red with Crayola! Red has been part of the Crayola Collection since the beginning, 1903. There are several interesting names for Red in other Crayola Collections too such as: Candy Apple Red in the “So Big” set, Lobster Red and Mercury Red in the “Discovery” series, Scarlet Red, found only in the “Scarlet Pimpernel” set, and Crabby Red in the “Colors of Baltimore” series. Lobster Red is the color for Maine in the “State Crayon Collection” and it is known as Ladybug Red in the “110th Anniversary” Collection. But, my all time favorite, for Red, is Alice’s Lipstick in the special “Colors of Binney & Smith” set.

So I’m thinking Alice, who was dead tired, after her night of singing the blues in a Jazz Club in New Orleans, slowly painted on her bright red lipstick before leaving the club and boarding this bright red trolley, to trudge back to her family, who needed every nickel and dime just to eat.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge

Check out some of the other 150+ challenge participants, it’s amazing what we have done with the Crayola colors!

 

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola: Razzmatazz

A Razzmatazz Peach Tree Herolding Spring!

A Razzmatazz Peach Tree Heralding Spring!

 

Razzmatazz Painted in Waterlogue App

Razzmatazz Painted in Waterlogue App

The weather has been soooooooo beautiful here in the south this week! My neighbor has this triumphant blooming peach tree in their yard. What color! Spring is everywhere! In the Waterlogue App I can make the photos look I have been sitting in my garden just painting away!

Razzmatazz has been included in the Crayola assortments since 1993. It is known as the Heart of Dixie, the color for Alabama in the “State Crayon Collection”.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge!

 

 

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Razzle Dazzle Rose

Razzle Dazzle de Rose

Razzle Dazzle de Rose

 

For my photo choice I’ve given Razzle Dazzle more flair by giving the roses a french touch, naming it Razzle Dazzle de Rose. These were more of the beautiful flowers seen on my English Garden Tour, 2015.  Did I tell you I received the book, Gardens to Visit 2016, from the National Garden Scheme? I am in the throws of planning my visit this summer to gardens in Cornwall, Devon, Sussex and Kent, oh my!

Razzle Dazzle Rose is the fluorescent color originally known as Hot Magenta from 1972 to 1990. In the “Discovery Series” it was known as Blast Off.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge!

 

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Raw Sienna

Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread

Raw Sienna is a yellowy-brown color. So I thought I’d share with you how I like to bake bread! Any bread! Lately my favorite is Golden Grains Bread, a bread Recipe from King Arthur Flour. But, this week there was also, Irish Soda Bread and Irish Soda Bread Muffins, also from King Arthur Flour. There is nothing better than the smell of baking bread. There is nothing better to eat, than fresh bread from the oven. Give us this day our daily bread! Amen.

I wrote a previous post all about King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Vermont. I love their products so much I had to make a visit to them! What a great Bakery facility they have there!

Raw Sienna was part of the Crayola Collection from 1903 until 1910. It was re-introduced in 1958. In the “State Crayon Collection,” it is known as Nutmeg and is the color for Connecticut.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge! 

 

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Radical Red

America Canna_

I used to have a lot of Radical Reds in my garden, like this brilliant America Radica Red canna, but as I have aged I find my garden leaning toward the passive purple colors! This year I will be adding more silver colored plants to blend in and bring out the purples! The silver plants will go with my hair color! You know the old saying, “the longer you are married the more you and your spouse look alike”? Well I think that applies to my garden too!

Radical Red is a fluorescent red color introduced to the Crayola Line in 1990.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge 

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Purple Pizzazz

 

Beautiful Purple Pizzazz in the UK Cottage Garden

Beautiful Purple Pizzazz in the UK Cottage Garden

 

A Spot of Purple Pizzazz

A Spot of Purple Pizzazz

In Europe Crayola calls Purple Pizzazz, Powerful Purple. In the US Purple Pizzazz is a fluorescent color which was introduced to the line in 1990.

In the cottage gardens of the UK you will find some Powerful Purples clustered together to make a beautiful Purple Pizzazz spot in the garden!

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge!

 

 

IPhriday Photo Challenge: The Green Cottage with Daffodil Garden

The Green Cottage With Daffodil Garden

The Green Cottage With Daffodil Garden

 

The Green Cottage With Daffodil Garden

The Green Cottage With Daffodil Garden

 

The Green Cottage Painted in Waterlogue

The Green Cottage Painted in Waterlogue

 

The Green Cottage Painted in Brushstroke

The Green Cottage Painted in Brushstroke

I have been waiting and waiting to get photos of the old southern cottages, in my little part of the world, during Spring. Not only are the cottages nostalgic of days gone by, but their gardens reflect the love put into them! There are quite a few of these beauties, so over the course of the next few weeks I will be adding them to the IPhriday Photo Challenge. No respectable southern cottage is good without a porch to sit and drink Sweet Tea on!

Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays! It is great fun getting outside to see what is going on!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Purple Mountain Majesty

Purple Mountain Majesty

Purple Mountain Majesty

 

Closer Look at Purple Mountain Majesty

Closer Look at Purple Mountain Majesty

 

Ready, Get Set!

Ready, Get Set!

Some of us like to look at Purple Mountain Majesty from afar and some of us are never settled until they can get a good close up, personal look see! Such is the case when SB and I were in Chamonix, France, a resort area near the junction of France, Switzerland, and Italy. I was content to stay in the chalet cottage and indulge in the spa treatments and look at the mountain, while SB was twitching to get up on Mont Blanc. Then he decided he would also paraglide down, just for fun.

“Did I want to go up?” he asked.

“No, I will watch you from right here, at the chalet,” my reply. “I’ll watch for you and take pictures.”

Jump!!!

Jump!!!

Moral to the story: Some People Fly High and Some People are Fully Rooted to the Ground and

My Spot

My Spot!

OPPOSITES ATTRACT!

 

Purple Mountain Majesty, also spelled Purple Mountains’ Majesty and Purple Mountain’s Majesty has been in the Crayola Collection since 1993. It is also known as Pencilvania Purple in the special “Colors of Binney & Smith.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge!

 

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