Blooms...

With the recent rains comes the blooms...

 I'm so glad I planted the passion flower plant, love the blooms, and with the recent rains it's really taken off...

And of course another one of my favorites, which is drought tolerant, is Silver sage...I've noticed though it doesn't bloom if it's not getting enough water but the minute it rains Poof, they are covered in blooms!!

Hope y'all are having a great weekend...Hot and Muggy here! But spending time with my boys which I love!!



A few photos from today...

I didn't sleep very well last night and was up early so I woke Michael up and we went to town for breakfast....

When we came out of the restaurant we saw this, beautiful rainbow!!

 Then I turned and looked over towards the Hospital across the street and saw the sun's rays streaming above the thunderheads, gorgeous!!

I had to laugh at this photo...The city of Victoria is trying to enact laws regarding billboards because they are polluting the roadways but what about the electric lines...They're all over and more are going up every day, they aren't very pretty in my book and are always ruining a good photo!

 Later Michael spotted this scissortail on the electric lines, sweet! I love scissortails!

And I spotted this morning dove...

Got another small shower this morning at the house I guess, I wasn't home at the time but the tire tracks were washed out in the driveway!! Victoria seems to be getting all the rain lately and things are really turning green there...

4 inches total so far and still raining...

The driveway is full...

The dry creek that runs through the driveway is flowing pretty good...

And remember the creek was not flowing and drying up...Not anymore...it's flowing and in fact flooding too, ekk...

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Michael and I both had dentist appointments this morning...Michael had no cavities, Me, I had one...I love our dentist. He doesn't mess around and decided to go ahead and fix it...So it's done and the Novocaine just wore off and can I say OUCH!! Oh my goodness! He said it would probably hurt for two weeks, this is so NOT good...if it's not one thing it's another!! Gonna be a long 2 weeks!!

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Happenings around here...

Monday was a slow day for us...After listening to Michael whine about being bored (I hate that word) I pulled out the white t-shirts and we played around tye dying them...

 I found an article online about tye dying shirts with permanent markers and rubbing alcohol. I then set them with a Hot iron and today I'll wash them them in cold water and put them in a HOT dryer to make sure the designs are set. Michael and I both had fun making them and thought they turned out pretty cool. Of course I wanted flowers and Michael wanted tanks, lol.

Go ahead and make my Day MOM!! He was running around with a pretend police vest on and I thought it was so cute but he didn't, he did not want his photo taken! I think I need to invest in a Super Soaker Squirt gun and surprise him or possibly make his day!!

We had a few storms come through last night and received about 10mm of rain. It wasn't much but it was rain and we'll take it!! It's dark and dreary this morning and it looks as though we might get some more rain during the day. I'll have to come up with another awesome activity to keep Michael busy...perhaps a pinata? Or maybe more tye dye shirts?

Hope y'all have a great day!



Rainbows in the clouds...

We had a storm off to the West of us this evening and I was in the pool when I noticed the rainbow up at the top of the main thunderhead...Cool...



 This was the storm and the rainbows were up at the top of the main cumulus cloud where the sun was trying to peak over...

 Fred said it looked like the colors were rolling over the top of the cloud...

 Pastel rainbow...

 Vivid rainbow

 Whispy

The storm started to dissipate and the colors vanished...We really enjoyed the show!

The photos don't do it justice as the colors were so vivid and beautiful and something we had never seen before...



Our day in Rockport Texas

Rockport had their Art Festival this weekend and I so love seeing handmade art from local artist and I finally got Fred (who doesn't have a drop of artistic blood) into going...WooHoo!! It was hot and I just carried the little point and shoot camera with me...

 Fred and Michael checking out some of the artwork...There were so many nice items and it was hard but I behaved myself. I did get a few business cards for future reference...

 I was checking out the Storm clouds to the North and Fred was checking out the Funnel cakes.

 After checking out the art festival we decided to visit the Texas Maritime Museum. Michael and I more or less dragged Fred in there with us...

 And actually Fred enjoyed it...

 This model is the La Belle

http://www.texasmaritimemuseum.org/

 Michael loved being able to actually touch a real piece of a canon...too cool!

 Lots of hands on exhibits and Michael enjoyed that...

 Fred found the exhibit on Oil drilling in the gulf interesting

 One of Michael's favorites...

I wasn't allowed to use a flash in the museum so that is the reason for the blurry photos...

 We went up to the 3rd floor to the observation deck...It was really neat to get a Birds eye view of Rockport and the Marina.

 Fred helping Michael get a better view

 A "you are here" map of the coastal waters...It showed the route LaSalle used when he sailed the coast, the present day inter-coastal ship channel and the routes the early settlers used to navigate the coast and bays...really interesting (I love maps)...

 The Art Festival from above...

The Marina and looking off towards Mustang Island.

We had a great day even if it was 100+ temperature wise....

Our 4th of July...

I had promised to take Michael out for lunch because I had some work to do around here during the morning hours...At around noon we jumped in the vehicle and started driving back roads, not really sure where we were going...

 Michael grabbed the map and was navigating...

 We ended up in Cuero Texas a small town not too far from us...And of course Michael spotted the double arches and decided that is where he wanted to eat lunch...(Michael took the above photo with the Olympus point and shoot camera)

 While we were eating lunch I asked a lady who was all dressed up for the 4th if Cuero had anything going on for the 4th of July and she told me yes and to go to the park...We came up on the flags and the memorial and I pulled over so Michael could take some photos...

 I asked if he had gotten the memorial with the flag and he said yes and later as I looked at the photos I saw that he did and he did a great job...

 When we got to the park we saw that one of the local churches was having a 4th of July festival and Carnival for the kids. It was almost over with but we still had a little bit of time and Michael wanted to play...

 He really enjoyed the bounce house...

 He loved dunking the kid in the Dunking booth...

 It was a really nice carnival for the kids and a lot for them to do too...

 Even a train in the shade...

I wish we had gotten there a little sooner as they had a silent auction, cake walk and so much more but by the time we arrived all those things were shut down. Thank goodness the bounce house was still going Michael loved that...

 Later after we got home I decided to try for some patriotic photos...

 It was Hot and the Sun was bright and neither one of the boys was very cooperative...I got a few photos and decided that was enough...

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I had bought Michael some sparklers, which he kept calling flares, lol...He wanted fireworks, but we are so dry here I told him not this year...better safe than sorry! At 9pm Michael started in about wanting to do his flares (Sparklers)...I told him he needed to wait until it was a bit darker and finally it was time!!

 He had a blast!

 He was a bit apprehensive at first as the sparks were flying....

 I was tickled because I got photos...I wanted to go see some fireworks but Michael didn't so to avoid a conflict we just stayed home...

 Then he wanted me to join in...Thank goodness for the remote shutter release!

 Okay so they were sparklers nothing big and awesome but we still had fun!!

 I thought this one looked like an Eagle...

 Love the designs...

 Ekkk a snake!!

This was Michael's favorite photos...he said with the sparkles flying it looked like the large fireworks...I'm kneeling trying to light another sparkler that had gone out too soon...

We had a quiet day and planned nothing but still managed to have fun and celebrate the 4th!!