Beelieve

B is for Bench Monday

and...Buzz  kill
Back to work today after a nice long staycation...just hitting the snooze button one more time!

and did not have enough time to post before work because of it.  I ended up home early due to more foot issues.  Thank you all who have asked and your well wishes.  I am having some issues with the veins as a result of having some spider veins taken care of.  I did it for me.  I have been holding back for a long time and so glad I did.  Using the time to rest has strengthened me.  No vain-vein-pain, no gain!  :)

Good times, good friends

..and beautiful horses.

Wednesday was a very lucky and happy day for me.  I finally got to Saratoga race track for a girls day.  YAY!  Much needed and you may remember how I missed my girls day last year.  We did eventually get there last year but a day away from it all is so needed once in a while.

It was a very lucky day indeed!  And for my friend I went with, who suggested how to show my pictures, the first 4 are for you!

Lucky Necklace: handmade

 

Lucky Dress: probably too much $

 

A Horse Named "Sax in the City": worth millions

 

Winning all day:  PRICELESS!

The rest are some more of the, kid you not, 100's of shots I took!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers indeed!

Flare Friday

with my little earth angel!

 

I am still around but enjoying some moments to call my own. So for the weekend I ask and answer...

What is a moment?

(please click on the link below)

it is that thing that is beyond the senses

Thank you m. heart and extended thanks to Rowena, my kindred spirits even when I have been so absent.

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me
sooc
what you see is what you get
more than skin and bones
now give me a hug!

Dedicated to anyone who wants the comments to stop about a physical attribute...including the ones in their own mind.

Bench Monday~on Zephyr winds this time

she wears my shoes

...and that is compliment enough.

yesterday i decided to take my foot outside to raise by the pool.  hobbling along, taking forever to set up.  i no sooner set-up, and it stated to rain.  ugh!  so hobbled back in and my helper gathered our goods,  always helping, she makes me so proud.  we were going to have a card playing picnic.  she decided it would be equally fun to hang on my bed to do it...so we did and laughed until we napped.

typing in bed with my feet higher than my heart is a challenge...but i have survived worse!

Happy Flare Friday!

Love ya,

mean it!

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move

... still not into the face self portraits and really did not want to write about anything all that serious this week. Leah @ Creative Every Day posted a theme challenge for August of "move". She always seems to hit home with her challenges. I can't sit still in the summer, i thrive in the heat. In fact these shots are from trying to do a non pose pose and a song got stuck in my head...you all now know i like to rock. I may not be at a cool concert but the songs i hear make me think i could be. I cracked up laughing at all the shots i dared to take once i saw them...but today i need to tell you all to live.

I am going crazy now with a bit of bed rest...everything is fine really...just a foot thing.  Hope to be up again in no time...doctors orders to take the next 2 days off and my vacation is next week.  Ahhhhhh no cage job until the very last day of August..I can handle that!

ooops...Happy Bench Monday....

on Tuesday...

sink...swim...or set anchor

“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”

john kenneth galbraith

Sorry i am not around much...trying to hold on to summer...so much to post...so much to do....so much art and photos to create but right now...

I am leaving the world behind... 

and enjoying my place in it for a while!

Dreaming of the magic picture

...and more sleep!

I have been living in my car....at least it seems so these hot summer days.  Pajama girl has been at a reading enrichment camp this week with her way too soon to be 1st grade teacher. I have only had a few interactions with her and love her.  She has such an energy about her, and the kids are enamored by her sense of humor and creative ways.

Yesterday was the last day of this program and at the end of the session all the children came outside to release some dreams. 

They had red balloons with notes tied to them that read...

There was a space below to color a picture and a request to let the school know how far the balloon made it.  I thought that was brilliant...and they have had a few people write back to let them know where they found their dream balloon.

Should you be lucky enough to find a dream balloon, remember it would not have been possible without the thought from another human being.

If i had a chance to dream last night it there would have been a picture of a very happy comfortable little girl under my pillow.  My baby has an ear-ache, the kind that prevented her from sleeping...and me.  Even if she dozed off a bit next to me, i still found it hard to sleep knowing she would be up again in minutes. She is resting now and soon we will be at the doctor's...and dream to escape on the boat when done...I plan on dreaming the rest of the day on the lake. It is a beautiful Adirondack morning here and the mist is lifting.  If I had the energy I would take a picture of the sunlight streaming through the mist and hitting the small farm table in the kitchen just perfectly.

Speaking of the kitchen table, thank you to Carrie of Apartment Therapy ohdeedoh for sharing our fun bird house window treatment there.

Here is a red balloon for a day of dreams coming true to all of you!