Dahlias and other Flowers

Here's just a little something for you to laugh at.

(This is who I think like when clothes shopping. It's the mindset of someone whose name sounds something like Mess Barvin or something.....)

Take Notice

that I spent 15 minutes this morning looking at probably 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 (give or take a million) different blog designs...... and now considering sticking to the old one? I'm gonna try this one out for a few days just to see the response and if I still like it. :)

Hey I'll post some pictures up here real soon. :) Oh, and I have the promised Dahlia pictures as well!

See y'all!

Flipflop

These are my feet. And my favorite way to wear them, too. bare!

These are my feet in NEW flipflops and my old bad shoes in the middle.

my new flipflops!

There is a story behind this-

I have terrible arches- hereditary! So my mom made me a deal. She'd buy me new shoes- dressy, everyday, and outside- if she'd let me get rid of all my old ones.

Deal.

So I bought these flip-flops, and got another brown and pink pair just like them for variety. I also got Teva sandals for outdoor wear and I have no use for dressy shoes at the moment.

THE END!

I know, beautiful story isn't it? I bet it brought you to tears.

Well here's something to end this post with a laugh. Dry your eyes and click play!

(P.S.- roses are

one of God's

most beautiful flowers!)

Questionita4 Answer!!!!

Red!!!!!!

Memorial Day Weekend....

is just around the corner!

and summer is coming too! Now THAT'S something to celebrate! :)

(I love the flag impression on the picture. It gives a wonderful patriotic feel!)

A few weeks ago I shared this picture.

I was bored and tuned it up...

And now it looks different... I don't know if I like it or not. lol. :)

Mushrooms! I don't technically like mushrooms but they make good pictures!

I'd like to shout out to Lucia Marie for making this absolutely AD-ORABLE header and button. Thank you so much, Lucia! They are s'wonderful, s'marvelous!!!

Also, if you have a Memorial Day picture I would love to see it. Please send it to me at minshipwriter@gmail.com and I'll display it on my blog!*

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

*if you do not wish for me to post your picture, feel free to tell me so when you e-mail it to me. I will respect your privacy. If you do not say that you wouldn't like it to be shared, I will take the liberty of showing it on my blog, but I will not share it anywhere else, copyright it, or photoshop it. All rights of the picture belong to the photographer.

Floraliea

Hehe.....I don't know what Floraliea means but somehow it matches this post.
I was bored today and was thinking about adding a signature to all my photos...and I edited and played around with some pictures too.

How do you like it? Which one do you like best?

Dogwood and Strawberries

This was the first time I ever remember seeing dogwood trees. Oh, they are so gorgeous!

From far away they look like pink trees. But even from a car looking at one on the side of the road, you can tell they are each individual, huge flowers. I was so surprised! They look fake.

But they are not! Aren't they pretty? I couldn't capture the real color with my camera... and I was trying manual mode and that is why the picture is so dark hehe :)

And they were all different colors! light pink, dark pink, and white greeted us.

Along with all the springy-leafy-growing trees!

The moon was shining as I could see it up there and so I snapped a shot.

This absolutely gorgeous tree! You know what I like about cameras? They let you see things close up. I couldn't even see what these little pink flowers looked like without my camera so I zoomed in....

But before I show you those beautiful flowers I just had to show you this sun-shiney pic.

alright...

here are those pretty zoomed-in flowers

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Aren't the GORGEOUS?!?!? I have said that like 5 times in this post... but who cares everything is!

They look like snow, it is so gorgeous (i've said that too much lol) pretty!!

and then we had sweet strawberries!!! We got some a few days ago that were so deliciously at the height of ripeness they were the best I'd ever tasted. Then we got these. They were sweet, but I think since they are still yellow at the ends that means they aren't as sweet. But they were good!

and they were huge!

The end!

Questionita4

Question: What color do you think this tulip is?

(Answer photo will be posted soon!)

(Vote on the side of my blog!!)

Well, here are some other pics I took!

The leaf and the petal kind of merged together... strange, but it's really cool!

Almost blooming!

This is a cherry tree growing at the back of our yard....never actually gotten cherries from it. We can see them way up high in the tree, but they aren't reach-able.

Grape Hyacinths- the perfect "ingredient"! We used to play with these all the time. As soon as they bloomed we were so excited because we could "cook" with them and use them as "exotic" foods and "grapes"! :)

;) wink

 ok so I don't know why I winked.... maybe because I was reminiscing??

anyhew, bye!

Blooming Tulip

Every day I took a picture of a tulip... but on an overnight trip I missed a few days, so the main blooming process is missing. Oopsiedaisy.... hehe. :) Anyway, here are the pictures!

BEWARE: The following contains... like... lots of pictures.

April 28th

April 29th

April 30th

May 1st

May 4th

A beautiful, peach-tinted bloom greeted us home.

Most of the flowers look like this still.

The pinkish-yellow-peachy colors really show up on this.

It's the most beautiful tulip I've ever seen!

Most of our tulips are red and yellow, but just this last year we bought this pink tulips. Aren't they the most gorgeous thing?!?!

This is a purple flower in our yard... among lots of other little ones just snuggled in there.

The real size, though?

Tiny!

I LOVE how this one turned out. At first I didn't like it, but it's wonderful.

This is a red tulip... OBVIOUSLY. Isn't it pretty?

Today, only a few pink tulips are blooming. These are still lookin' pretty green. :)

I tried to capture the pink at the bottom of the petals.

The yellow-peach is gorgeous!!!

Thanks for putting up with my immense amount of pictures!

Love yah! Mary

P.S.

Look what I just got!

I don't own this picture- I found it through google.

But this is the same typewriter as the one I got!! Exciting, right? :):)