Hi LouC yes those ones but the firies and police and everyone all jumped in and saved them .....it happens almost every Summer.....I wish they would ban smoking in cars ....most of the fires start that way Grrrrr......hate it!.....that and lightening strikes....gonna be a bad year....usually don't start until mid Nov.,.......hope you are well
New buys this weeK!
Good day today. Is there a way a fire zone could be created around the churches to protect them? Cigarettes are a bad thing for multiple reasons.
It was beautiful here too! Not too hot, but rather humid due to the rain last night.
Love all of the pictures!
Whew!! Been a few days!! Been busy so haven't made it on here for awhile! Won't be on here tonight either. Will be back on tomorrow though!! After I check out a new stable nearby. lol.
Chrissy, they are gorgeous!!!!!
You looking to board a horse Pepper, or buy a stable??
LOL. I wish I could BUY a horse!!! Just riding lessons is what I am looking at. I haven't ridden since last year and REALLY need to get back in the saddle.
Aaaah...I completely understand. When I first moved to Colorado I didn't know of anyplace to ride (mainly because I HATE to ride those rent-a-ride, by the hour, spiritless ponies)...started going through withdrawals!!! Finally found a gal who owned a stable - we became friends, and she would let me exercise the boarded horses...ahhhh heaven! Good luck my friend!
Goodness me, Shari. How many lives have you lived, girl? So envious of a life of adventure. You will just have to share it with us.
LouC
Didn't make it over there today since I had to work. I will email them to set up an appointment to talk to them.
I am so tired and sore it's crazy. As soon as I got home I kicked off my shoes and I swear my feet went THANK YOU!!! lol. And I was wearing tennis shoes, not boots. I always wear boots with jeans-the fashion diva in me, and my feet still hurt after this weekend. lol. And I have to go back tomorrow. And the rest of the week.
I just wear a little cowhide Loincloth in front and back,and always barefoot when I ride!!!!LOL
It must be the 2 kinds of Indian in me!!!!LOL
LOL!
Are you sure mate,you wanna see pictures???
Tm, Crissy might have been kidding - but I want to see them! Do tell about your heritage, which tribes?
Chrissy, your pictures brighten up our day, just beautiful! I love Jacarandas but they only grow here "up country", at a higher elevation. Up in Kula the roads are lined in places with the Jacaranda and it is a beautiful sight in April and May. They even post it in the newspaper when the trees are in flower to alert us beach bums to drive up for a look!
Kind of like the wildflowers in Texas. When the bluebonnets are in bloom the paper posts directions. There is a website that updates everyday.
Those expanses of bluebonnets must be a breathtaking sight, such a beautiful color and not seen very much in the word of flowers...
Difficult to cultivate. Seed must be scattered in the fall on very poor ground. Depending on a dozen variations of climate and rain it may be years before it germinates. Then the plants must be left uncut and ugly looking for a long time so they drop their seeds for the next go round. Thanks to Lady Bird Johnson for founding the Texas Wildflower Center and what her influence did to enhance our highways nationwide. I believe in the long run her legacy will be equal or greater than LBJ.
On the Texas forum we have a lady who is an expert on Texas wildflowers, screenname :Frostweed, given name Josephine. If anyone is interested there is lots of information. Can't think of the URL for the Texas Wildflower Center......that could very well be it.
I wish we had the Lady Bird influence here...we are currently enlarging the road which goes though the center of Maui towards "town". All we could come up with is plantings of Hawaiian grasses with clumps of 3-5 trees every so often. Such a shame when you consider what we could have...I don't know the logic behind choosing grasses, perhaps it's to keep the views clear of the mountains....we could have done better, but nobody asked me!
Chrissy, here is a link to the plant files about our bluebonnet. These pictures are good but don't do justice to seeing in field and field. The Texas Department of Highways have planted various wildflower seed beside every road in Texas. Some years the blooms go from one kind of flower to the next or are all mixed together. for the most part they are finicky.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/754/
http://www.wildseedfarms.com/default.htm
Here is another that you may find interesting. They have moved their growing fields but I was at the other place about 15 years ago and still remember the fields and fields and fields of blooms.
http://www.wildflower.org/
This is one place that I shall definitely visit next Spring.
With all the gorgeous flowers you have, Chrissy, you should have a nature tour yourself.
Its interesting what the media promotes in each state, isn't it? In Colorado, the news stations and papers all give directions to the glorious Aspen groves in the fall when the leaves change. Liquid gold! And I used to love wandering through the fields of wildflowers in Northern California when I was a kid...and ocean of color and fragrance...just exactly like in the Wizard of Oz.
LouC - talk about adventures...I could never have found my way around the fashion world like you did so well! That would have done me in, while you thrived! Seriously! I know as much about "hems" as I do about "hens"...which is zero! Not a good thing for a mother of 3 daughters! Poor kids! We each have our strengths and interests. Its sharing them with each other that makes this place so much fun!
The back of that world is really an ugly place. In more ways than one. No one bothers to dress. Waste of time. Except for the days I was in the private boutique, "The Atelier". Jealousy abounds and brings out the worst. It is all about creating a fantasy. If you look at a certain dress and envision yourself as 6 ft ( which is the minimum height for a model), willowy and irresitible......you'll buy it. IF, it fits into a rediculously low budget. I didn't always fit in.
When we came back to Dallas from La it was really funny. I got off the plane in Dallas in tight jeans, white blouse, black sweater around my shoulders, wrap-around dark sunglasses. The CEO picked us up at the airport and laughed himself silly at my getup. Everybody in the Warner Brothers lots looked the same. Some sort of clone uniform. no makeup and stringy hair.
I was told after being on a sound stage I would never see tv the same again. So true. Everything is an illusion......even their private lives. I worked as his personal stylist. Good work if you can get it. The studios have an arrangement with the high dollar chains in Beverly Hills Mall. Go to the studio office of each store, register, go with your driver/mule to any place you want in the whole store. Pick out anything, sign for it, the mule carries it to the office for final check out. Wait while he gets the car loads it and comes for you at the door. Pretty nice. Go to the 5 star hotel, order room service and flop because it is nearly midnight and the day starts again at 6AM. Not being tacky by using the term "mule".
Common for anyone that carries the packages there. I preferred to call the gentleman by his given name.
From watching the tv tonight, I feel sure the home I stayed in is gone. So sad. But very much like........why build a house in a flood plain or on the side of hill with nothing but brush and the Santa Anna winds?
I went to this adventure from owning my own company and manufacturing our designs of wearable art......big thing in late 80's and my partner and I happen to hit it in its infancy.
Only problem, you see, stores don't pay their bills. As I said "It is an ugly business."
If you could see what is going on behind the curtains at a style show, you wouldn't believe it. The typical runway walk is 20 SECONDS.......practice till you get it right, baby. Then the illusion is gone.
These days I wear shorts and t-tops. Winter t-tops and long pants. Could care less about all that other junk. Just marketing......that's all it is.
I wouldn''t have lasted 20 seconds...someone would have said something to me with that haughty, superior attitude, and that's all she wrote. My verbal skills tend to the loud and obnoxious when I'm pissed off...just would never have been able to have that adventure, but thanks to Dave's I can enjoy a look behind the scenes though your experiences. You are a braver gal than I am Gunga LouC!
aaawwww. Just finished Dancing With The Stars. Vote for Mark Cuban. Yay...
Hey cool!!! I was watching that too!!! I hope Mark makes it another round!
Missed is my gal Marie Osmond still on??
Ain't she a beauty!!!!!!
BHM,I'm cherokee,on my dads side and seminole,on my mothers,along with welch and Irish
what a mess huh!!!! LOL,Plus there were rumors from My dads grandma about crow and blackfoot,when they family had a sawmill in Michigan,in the early 1800's.
Chrissy those pics are just out of this world!!!!!!!
The colors are tremendously colorful and bright,I believe might hurt your eyes if you were to stay at them very long!!!! LOL
Just a pure sight of beauty!!!!
Christi, what an adventure you had in LA ! Fancy it having such an ugly underbelly!
TM , What a lot of tribes you can lay claim to! Did you learn about any tribal ways through your parents or grandparents?
What interesting backgrounds you all have!
Aloha!
You know,as a small child,the grandparents wouldn't really didn't want to talk about it,as if they wanted to forget about it all to completely,almost ashamed,or embarrassed,but it was the same to about being Irish and Welsh.
Dad said it was something they just didn't talk about,because your in America,your an American now....funny how the older generations lived in those early times.
I know my sister had to get documentation for grants from the federal government for college,and what it stir it caused wanting to get the info from the elders about our past history.
Thank goodness nowadays things are different, perhaps it wasn't shame or embarrassment, I hope not. Could have been a family looking at the reality of life in those times and doing their best to make small children feel that they fit in and belonged just like everyone else.....I have always though of Native Americans as very proud and noble people....
I was just watching a fasinating TV show (might have been Discovery or some such) about the first Americans. The new theory is that people from all over populated the Americas, not only did some come through the land bridge from the North but also people from Japan and from Europe followed the ice sheets to arrive in the New World.
My children and grandchildren are of course Americans, but when they were growing up they used two languages, American and English! You should hear my grandson Dustin, who is a wicked mimic, do his impression of me with my accent! It really is very funny.