Purple passion...

Summer is bearing down on us and everything is green. The spring flowers are all but gone except for the few lone holdouts that are clinging to some color in defiance of the heat. Remember that amazing display of wisteria? I was walking past the house today and I saw this long strand of purple clinging as tightly as it could to the idea of spring. Below it, against the fence was a spring of leaves that had given up and headed towards an early fall. Thank goodness there wasn’t any snow hiding in the corner to signify winter. I like strange but that would have been too weird, even for me. June 13th

Over the fence...

Friday the 13th, to many a very unlucky day but, as my child pointed out in a whisper to his music teacher today during the third grade concert, not to Italians. My best friend all through high school and to this day was born on a Friday the 13th and getting a baker’s dozen is always a treat. Plus, good things seem to happen to me on the 13th. Take today for instance: I got to see my son have a wonderful time singing with his friends, then I got to have a wonderful time having brunch with my friends, and in between I got to take a series of images I have been trying to take for far too long.

I have seen these flowers growing for years now and every time that I had my camera the sun was too high or too low. When the lighting was perfect, I was without my camera! Frustrating! It doesn’t help that this scene is only a few blocks from my home. I felt cursed. This Friday, however, I had my camera, the sun was hiding behind some beautiful fluffy white clouds and I got these images! Now I call that lucky! May 13th