Wildflower (195/365)

TIME: 7:05 PM
PLACE: Backyard
SUBJECT: Flower

Earlier in the spring, I bought a shade loving wildflower mix from the dollar store.
We sowed it under the pecan tree.
This is one of the flowers that grew.

Trampoline (194/365)

Marge: I don't know if this is a good idea.
Homer: Marge, it's the perfect exercise!  It'll double the value of our
       house, and it was free!  Free!
-- Why trampolines are good, The Simpsons,  "Bart's Inner Child", 11-Nov-1993

TIME: 6:32 PM
PLACE: Back yard
SUBJECT: Trampoline

I caved.

Timmy at the Auction (193/365)

"At sales every other toy looks simply worn, dilapidated, grubby. A bear looks lost and abandoned and desperately in need of a loving home."
-Helen Thomson

TIME: 10:48 AM
PLACE: Auction
SUBJECT: Teddy Bear

The husband and I went to the local  monthly auction today to check out a car they had up for bid.
We decided to give it a go.
After what seemed like forever, they finally made it over to the car and started the bidding – It quickly went way over my self-appointed maximum and we dropped out.
Oh well.
I did see this teddy bear on one of the wagons.
It was an exact duplicate of my childhood bear, “Timmy”.
Only this one had a lot more fur.

Horse Selfie (192/365)

TIME: 1:06 PM
PLACE:  Highway 3
SUBJECT: Claudia & Dreamer

Claudia and I wandered around looking for used cars this morning.
On our travels, we passed a field that had miniature horses in it.
We then noticed the “Yard Sale” sign in the driveway and decided to check it out.
There was a 2-week old colt running around the sale.
Her name was “Dreamer”
Dreamer licked my toes and the back of Claudia’s knees.


Her mama whinnied for her and she went over nursed

~*~*~
Later that evening, we went to watch some fireworks.
I gave Stella my little camera and showed her how to use the “Fireworks” button.

She took this:


Pretty good.

Tour de Belleville 2015 (191/365)

”Hoo doggies!”
Jed Clampett, The Beverly Hillbillies

TIME: 8:13 PM
PLACE: Downtown
SUBJECT: Start of the Tour de Belleville

It’s the 2nd Friday in July.
That means it’s time for the annual bike ride through the city streets.
The theme this year was the “Belle Villey Hillbillies”. (Clever, no?)
This year, we (the 5 of us, along with my Dad, Brother and nephew) made sure we were at the head of the crowd.
We finished the 15 miles in about an hour and 20 minutes.
Then it was time for a beverage.


The streetlight caused shadows to be cast by the metal outdoor table.
It looked like I was wearing fishnet knee socks.

Downtown Art (190/365)

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell (American painter, printmaker, and editor.1915 – 1991)

TIME: 7:03 PM
PLACE:  Downtown
SUBJECT: Building art

This was known as the “Hole” for a number of years. 
The building had burnt, was torn down by the city and the remaining clean-up responsibility was the subject of a lawsuit between the city and the building’s former owner.
Finally, a settlement was reached and the “hole” (former basement of the building) was filled in.
Green space is there for now.
The side of the building was decoratively plastered by the former owner of the destroyed building and periodically, the four squares are changed out with different artwork.
Right now, we have bovines.


A view of the entire area.
(The Beatles and the woman’s head are located to the left, out of the frame.)

Way Back Wednesday (189/365)

TIME: July 8, 2008
PLACE: Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis MO
SUBJECT:  James and Stella

Seven years ago, I dragged these guys to the cemetery to search for graves as part of my genealogy research.
James was 9 and Stella was 4.
I don’t remember where Claudia was that day…probably she had spent the night at a friend’s house.
Stella had broken her thumb about a month earlier when she tripped over the Wii Fit box one of them left in the middle of the floor.
I’m pretty sure I had asked one of them to “Pick up the box before someone trips over it and hurts themselves.”
5 minutes later, Stella did just that.
I am psychic.