Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Dress Redo...


This is a picture of my mother and myself about 1971 or 72. She is wearing the dress from her brother's wedding. A lovely yellow cotton number with flocked white flowers and a train. She gave this dress to Elsie a few months ago for dress-up play.

Fast forward to about 2 weeks ago, when Elsie was going to participate in her school's Storybook Parade. Each student was to dress as a character from their favorite book and march through the neighborhood led by a police escort and a parade marshall in a red convertible. Quite the To Do for a grade school! Of course, Elsie did not want to be any character that we already had a costume for.... Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, Tinkerbell from Peter Pan, Cinderella... etc. Even though I presented each of them in an exciting manner with the promise of accessories and a grand styling event. She wanted to be Belle (or Beauty) from Beauty and the Beast and that was it. So out came the old dress. I took it apart and re-made it into this...



Here she is in action on the wet parade day...



We had to do a lot of layering underneath to keep her warm. Next year maybe we can do a character than involves an umbrella... probably good for this climate.

Thursday, June 05, 2008

It's still raining...

So many of my roses are in bud and it is not warm enough for them to open. Some of the buds are rotting or just falling apart... depressing. I was able to find a few that were open and gorgeous this morning.




If we could have one warm sunny day, everything would bloom and smell wonderful.... just one day... that's all I'm asking.

Sunday, June 01, 2008

It rains a lot here....

...sometimes I don't think warm, dry weather will ever arrive. We are skipping spring, so I'm hoping for summer.
Here are some pictures of our hanging fuchsia pots on our front porch...





I didn't grow these. We opted to spend our Memorial Day weekend gas money on two baskets of fuchsias and stay home. I think in the long run we saved money and will get to enjoy what we spent all summer long.
Now if it would just warm up so I could have my morning coffee on the porch.