A Peek At The Early July Garden...with love from Gwyn ♥

my summer thus far... rluvsg

We have taken many road trips!!! and seen lots of wildlife, sometimes too fast to get a photo of (bald eagles, black bear, etc... some not! here are a few photos of our Gorgeous Alaskan summers!!!

a day in my mini garden :) ~ rluvsg

a day in my mini garden... I have no green thumb!!! so I am just excited that my flower will survive the month!!! They sure are pretty though!!!

Even the weeds are pretty!!
make a wish!

June Poster - jangold

Hi Girls - it's 1st July so here is our poster for June

Hopefully I've caught the essence of most of our activities and you'll remember each of them.

Will be doing the pet poster in about 2 weeks - lots of nice pictures - especially cats and dogs ...

Have a great start to July.

Hugs Jan xxx

PS click on it to get a print version

New coloured lanterns - jangold

Hi Girls

It's a lovely day here in the UK. At long last we have had some good weather - some last week and more to come this week - in fact they predict a heatwave ! For our two weeks Wimbledon tennis contest this has been bliss and to date they have not had to use the new roof only to put some shade onto the Royal box :-)
I treated myself a few weeks ago to a several sets of lanterns to go on our dividing trellis in the garden as I had a poor clemetis that died there. So this is a picture of four of the lanterns - very bright and Summery and in the evening you can put in a tealight to light them up even more. As the Summer nights are already starting to draw in I will do this in a couple of weeks. Hope you are all having a good week - what did you do for SYM ? I had lovely nectarines with my cereal for breakfast.

Hugs Jan xxx

Malú and her circumstances. PoliXena

Malú has been ill lately and she had surgery two weeks ago. It has been a bit difficult situation and hard times for me and of course, for her. But now, she´s starting to feel much better... I feel so happy! and she is purring all day long.



I took this photo yesterday morning and I decided to post it as a way to give thanks to Gwyn -who made the most precious and swetest set for us- and to all the persons who have asked about her health.

Thanks for your good wishes and powerful energy, dear friends we truly appreciate it ;) Have a nice day, hugs, X.xxx

Orbs - jangold

Well another sunny day here in the UK - who's complaining - not me although I got burned through leggings over lunch. I had my friend Kerry up for lunch and we had a lovely pasta salad with garlic bread then for dessert I made strawberry waffles with vanilla icecream - very scrummy.

Gave me time to get some more done in the garden - so I got out my 6 orbs (3 pictured) you can see the reflection of the top part of the garden with the two chairs Kerry and I had been lazing on :-) Now if I can get all the solar lights to work - that will be another matter. Bye for now Hugs Jan xxx

Father's day

We went to check on our cattle on Father's Day, and i wanted to share these pictures with you. The first one is of a bottle tree, native to our Paraguayan Chaco. It's all full of big thorns, that fall off when the tree gets old. So when we were smaller, we knew never to go barefoot under a bottle tree.

The other picture is one of the newest calves. It's looking for it's mommy. The silly thing didn't realize she was standing close by the whole time.

And another, because it was Father's Day.... No comment necessary:)

Hugs, Brendasue (http://www.thechacogirl.blogspot.com/)

As the sun goes down - jangold

At 5pm the skies started to clear the grey away and give way eventually to lovely blue, clear skies. They have given out a 'heatwave' for Britain this week - so let's see how it goes.So by 8pm when I'd just finished work here I went outside with my camera.The garden at the back doesn't have any sun on it now at this time of day - but the front of the house is beautiful.I took this picture of our lovely hanging basket in the setting sun. It is so warm and peaceful here now at this time of day - I hope I wake up tomorrow and it has not gone.

Hugs Jan xxx

Strawberry Picking! -Angel_Emz95

This morning I went strawberry picking with my mum and sister!
Not all the strawberries wre ripe yet... but as you can see we found lots that were :))
We will eat them tonight with meringues - delicious!!
Love, Em XOXOXO

Separated At Birth??

My daughter and her friend are really into making these pet garments.
The latest creation is this leopard print shirt with collar for Steve.
When they put it on him, I thought Steve looked like Elvis Presley.
Don't you think they look like twins that were separated at birth???
Love, Gwyn

Dreaming

Hello Girls!!! This project is called "Dreaming". We had to make something from found materials. :) SO i used wood (Used to be my deck) to make a frame, then painted black. Furthermore, I found some dry branches and colored them with grey paint and then on top added some black. The wings of butterflies are made of dry rose petals and the bodies are made of plastic bags and then colored.

This project was one of my favorite. Hope you enjoy it.

Have a great Day! ~Farfalla~

How Spookey - jangold

Well what a coincidence this is.

I keep on my laptop a folder of pics to post to my blogs and to Polygirls and in it I had this photo of the same bird of paradise flower that Xena posted !!

Mine was taken in it's native South Africa at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town which I visited in Oct 2007. They are beautiful gardens which I have not visited before on my previous two visits and the part where this flower was found was a special area dedicated to Nelson Mandella and had been specially opened by him. As Xena said the meaning behind the flower is freedom therefore this flower was adopted by the black South African's as their national flower. I have some beautiful pics of those gardens and of the sculptures in there - I will post some more in the future.

Strelitzia Reginae. PoliXena

Hi dear friends, this is a gift for all of you, a flower wich is very common and popular here. It can be found almost everywhere and it´s named also bird of paradise due to its form. I took this photo last Sunday, near my house.

This very handsome flower is native to South Africa. It was introduced to European gardeners in 1773 when it was part of a shipment of horticultural specimens bound for the Royal Botanical Garden of King George III.

Strelitzia Reginae was named after the king's wife Queen (regina in Latin) Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Strelitzia).

It symbolizes Freedom, Magnificence and Good perspective. I think that these are great wishes for today, have a nice Wednesday. Hugs, X. xxxx

Look at my fabulous car!! --- MingMing

Look at this car!! so shiny...haha:D

and that's me.....latest Mai.

I just found this funny thing when I was passing by a store.

Maybe this is for a display of a new clothing store.

Do you want to get a ride?;)

sharing photos --- MingMing

Hello everyone! I was away from here for a while:(

I have some photos to share with you ladies.

When I have much time, I'll add more photos on here.

I went to a zoo 2 weeks ago. It has been long time since I went there last time.

It was pretty intersting and I had good time.

This is a famous town around the zoo.

It's one of sightseeing place in Osaka.

Spoil Yourself Monday tea/coffee/toast & love - jangold

Tea and toast - PPB by jangold (BLOG UPDATED SUN) on Polyvore.com

Poppy Fields

Today Lee and I went to the 'big city' down to Birmingham just under a hour away from here. The main purpose of the visit was to buy Lee a new wedding ring as he has 'lost' his last two. The last one somewhere in the car innards that even the garage manager cannot find. So we went down to our main jewelry quarter in England in Birmingham near to us and bought him a new one. I had it resized downwards a touch so this one might not slip off and if it does I will make him wear one through his nose :-)

It was a lovely sunny day today in most of the UK so en route back we had to stop for Lee to take some pictures for work for a new railway station they are planning to manage while being built. So lots of usual bus and train station pics from Lee ! But while I was sitting in the car to the back of me I saw this lovely poppy field so when he got back I nicked the camera off him and took a few pics. Hope you like them. Make sure you all have a great time this weekend and if you're in the UK enjoy the sun as we know it might not last :-) Hugs Jan xxx

6th-school-year-finishing party!

Hello everyone! On Friday evening I wasn't on Poly because I was off to the 6th-school-year-finishing party/trip/picnic together will all classmates and parents! It was such a fun - even though all the time it was raining, we had lots of things to do, it was brilliant, so I'm showing you the photos - I can be seen with the yellowish/green jacket below ;] We were playing sports, sitting by the lake, some of the classmates ever started the water wars after some time!
Kisses,
Monika

"Simply Saralee's" Sweet Little Princess

"Gabriella the Princess of York"

Sharing my sweet little princess with all of you! This is "Gabriella the Princess of York!" Better known as "Gabby!" This little girl is truly the heartbeat at my feet! It took me 9 long years to talk my hub into letting me get her, but the wait was worth it! The hub loves her to death! He waits on her hand and paw! He even brings her breakfast in bed every morning! SPOILED!!

Besides loving her to death she is very special to me because she was entrusted to me by my cousin Cathy Lou. Cathy Lou is one of the sweetest people on earth and is ill with "Scleraderma" and "Parkinson's" all at the age of 57. I'm not sure if any of you know what scleraderm is. It is dreadful! Your skin and organs petrify turning hard as stone. This dear sweet one never ever complains. She always has a smile and a sweet word for everyone! I am blessed to have her dog "Tilly's" one and only puppy!

Wishing you all a beautiful sunshiny day!

Pets - Angel_Emz95

Jan, you said you wanted pictures of pets... I don't have any myself, as my dad is allergic :( But here's a picture of Milly, the cat from next door. She might as well be ours as she practically lives round at our house anyway!

Sorry... I know it's not the greatest picture!! But she would NOT stay still... why is it that cats are still as statues right until you want to take a picture of them, and THEN they choose to start licking themselves!!! Oh well...

Love, Em XOXOXO

Paris - Angel_Emz95

Check me out in my new beret! :))

Me and my friends in the queue for the Eiffel Tower! (Clockwise from top: Fi, Ellie, Emma, Me, Adam, Dom)

Feeding the birds in the gardens of the Louvre!

The Arc de Triomph ( it was difficult to photograph because buses kept driving in the way!)

La Tour Eiffel, naturalement...

Notre Dame (unfortunately, it was closed, so we didn't get to go inside.)

The fountain in the Louvre gardens.

I missed you all very much!!! And I'm sorry it took my so long to do this post.

Unfortunately... I caught an infection from my sister, so now I'm ill :(

It's only flu really, but with my hayfever as well it's not pleasant!

Love, Em XOXOXO

Blog for the PPB Group

Hi Girls

Just to let you know for those of you who are members, I have started a picture board blog and will be featuring PPBs from the Polyvore Group - winners and other featured sets.

I will be putting on some of my picture boards on the blog before they go onto Polyvore and also some that are made off Polyvore from my own photographs that may not feature on Poly - so it may be worth it to check it out for different PPBs or to see if you have been featured.

http://pictureboards.blogspot.com/

Hugs Jan xxx

PS all have a great weekend

The rain has cleared - jangold

Hi girls

The rain has cleared at last after over week of very nasty storms. I have had to go out daily and empty about 1/2 inch of water out of each of my planters.

The handbag planters will now need some encouragement and good weather as some leaves started to rot.

But at last it is here and I believe is going to stay for the weekend at last. Unfortunately, I have another book chapter to write by the end of next week - then again as I have electricity inside and outside the Summer house - I may just plug in and carry on in the garden.

Hope you are all having a great Thursday - one more day 'til the weekend starts.

Hugs Jan xxx

Near my house. Polixena

This park is close to my house... two minutes walking or so. It´s a very big park (67.230 m2) wich is filled with wonderful trees and plants and lots of sculptures.

It´s in the middle of the city and its creation started around 1920, part of the money that the townhall used to create it was donated by the citizens.




It´s a very peaceful place, where you can read, rest or just have a sun bath. I try to go there at least once a week, it´s such a pleasant experience to stay there for a while.

Have a nice day, hugs, X. xxxx

My Cat, Miss

Jan is working on her poster of our pets.
She has photos of my other two cats,
Steve and Neen.
Here's number three: Miss

She is a Balinese (persian)
and really pretty,
but to be honest she is kind of dumb
and a little bit clumsy!

She is very much in love with her family.
When any of us are sick or sad, she KNOWS
and will not leave us until we are better.