"David"

Let's learn shading

I think David likes my designer briefs!

A little comic relief. 

Had to make the art lesson PG for my 7 1/2 year-old student. 

(Michelangelo would have laughed.)

an unusual dream

our little yucca in bloom!

i    l i k e     w h e n      t h e      p r a i r i e      i s      p e a c e f u l ....

An unusual dream this morning:

I saw "seeds" that looked like giant individual dandelion seeds. 

 I picked them and they turned into animals (as I planted them?)  

I'm 100% percent sure they were caribou.

I had to look this up, and according to dream symbols a reindeer signifies:

These dignified animals in your dream forecast a surprise gain. 

You are likely to recover something you thought lost (possibly a forgotten loan) 

or to discover that something you thought worthless is, in fact, quite valuable.

I  came across giant dandelions on our walk this evening.

Like the ones in my dream - I'm still looking for the caribou.  

I know this is random, maybe the tornado has made me slightly strange....  

my husband survived a tornado today, 3:24pm

greg and his two sons were inside the warren theater in moore, oklahoma 

grabbing a bite to eat before the star trek show when the F5 tornado was heading

  toward them.  they sheltered in the hallway and thirty minutes later came out to the

scene above.  that's greg's car covered in house insulation and other debris.

other cars were hurled elsewhere. other buildings and lives were not spared.

as you can imagine,,, and as you may have seen on the national news,,,

it's a nightmare, a horrific slash on oklahoma.

i'm hurting so much over the devastation and the missing people.

and i'm so grateful for the safety of my own family.

greg was inside the warren theater when the tornado touched it

at 3:24pm today.  he is home.  he is safe.  his sons are safe.

please pray for us.

oklahoma is hurting.

weekend

antelope horn

tickseed

hairy petunia

sneezeweed

The weekend:

Volunteered with the Wildflower Tour in the Wildlife Refuge

Hail storm busted Greg's windsheild 

Power Outage at our house

Lots of Gardening

Groomed Zody head to toe

Cut Greg's hair

Worked on encaustic 

Watched:  The Giant Mechanical Man & A Roman Holiday 

(on oldie and a new film - both wonderful!)

 

This collard lizard showed up in my zen prairie plot.  

I hope he decides to make his home here.

Warm rocks, lots of foliage for hiding, a saucer full of water,,,

and he can eat his fill of bugs! Why wouldn't he want to stay?

Happy Week To All!

a blanket on prairie hill

 

early this morning i noticed another color on prairie hill mixed

in with the bright yellow... from the backyard it looked orange. 

i grabbed the camera and headed for the hill.

the indian blanket flower -  everywhere!

"The 'Amen!' of Nature is always a flower."
  -Oliver Wendell Holmes 

 

the garden

  

this postcard from lily was perfect!

tree seedling

garden wheel

okra is sprouting

sage with an indian blanket flower

prairie hill is full of yellow flowers

watermelon

the fence lizard

planting, watering, watching

the garden,,,

yellow and red indian blankets

twirling in the wild green grass....

i spread a lot of indian blanket seeds in our yard last year,,,

they're starting to bloom now!

these past few days

Quannah Parker Lake

I found a crown!

   these past few days....well,

 i started private art lessons, translated some german,

encountered two snakes!, went to a bridal shower,

helped with a wildflower tour in the wildlife refuge, hiked some, 

finished planting my garden!, made bug spray, made snake oil!,

wrote cards and took lots of pictures. i'm sure that i'm forgetting 

something....  :)  hm,,, ? ....this about sums it up though.

 

Here lies okra.

That's my vegetable wheel down below!

'Praying Mantis Study,' by Mason (age7)

snake in the backyard!!

i was out back in the tame yard, when (right next to my feet)

 it slowly slithered down a crack - right where our

 back porch cement meets up with the grass! 

found out it's a prairie king snake. at least it wasn't a rattler!

however, this means being on the offensive

(starting with snake repellant arsenal).

"the presence of snakes indicates an ecosystem is healthy." ha!!

Painted buntings are coming for the buffet.

The prairies are full of coreopsis!

Essential Oils

someone recommended a blend of cinnamon and clove oils
as snake repellant.  i liked the smell of this cinnamon so much that
it's now my new perfume!  "snake oil" is  the name of my new scent! ha ha!

i hope you have a wonderful week...