Friday, August 25, 2023

Fabulous Friday Photos and Memories

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When I transferred into my new computer I lost two years of photos in the transfer...when you think of relying on computers for your life...it really is a shame when a Ka-FLooey erases history.

Luckily, I at least had my Google photos from my blog...while scanning through those---thousands, I pulled a few OLD favorites. Some very old...and thought I would share them as Fabulous Friday Photos.

Fall, hopefully is on its way. Yesterday we had the highest temp, 100+, and heat index, 120+, ever in the Chicagoland Area. It was stifling with our humidity, but this morning it is dreary and cooler. 
Thank goodness.

The Fall arrangement above is one of my favorites, because it has some of my favorite flowers and lots of naturals and textures:

Delphiniums


Black eyed Susans, 

Sunflowers, 


Queen Anne's Lace, 

The sparkly thing on the right is 


'Spooky Spider', a cute Dollar Store spider.

This is was when our grandgirl was small and chose the non-spooky Halloween decor from my storage bins. She placed him on an old lantern and that was my porch decor for most of Fall.

The enameled container is a huge gallon or more coffee pot with a wood handle, I found at a farm yard sale probably 40 years ago. I dragged it home without a lid and a tiny hole in the bottom and my hubby wrinkled his nose. Oh, well--it's perfect for arrangements.

I often wondered where anyone needed an enamel coffeepot that large, then I recalled the huge coffeepots at my first job at 14 waiting on banquet tables at Dania Hall. We were a bunch of young girls of members, who often waited on tables for 350 or more at banquets. My great-aunt, Gudren, was the cook there for large events. The coffeepots were even larger in that kitchen, and were lifted by two ladies into the dumb-waiter to go upstairs banquet hall. Not an easy feat.

 Danish coffee is always the drip sort, boiling water poured over grounds in the large baskets lined with linen cloth. It was a tedious process, as large pots were slower to drain, but the coffee was the BEST ever, and the smell overran the huge and busy kitchen at Dania.

Memories for the Day from one photo:
Favorite flowers
Grandgirl choosing Halloween decor
Antiquing for a Coffee Pot
First Job waiting banquet tables at Dania
The smell and taste of Danish Coffee

ALL these fabulous memories from one photo!
 
Friday Fabulous Photos and Memories
 
Do You have special 
Memories from your Photos?

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Sunflowers Deux

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I love Sunflowers and a few years back I spent an entire month playing with watercolors and one of the prompts was sunflowers. 

With the mess this year, I'm behind with everything so I've been doing some Link Parties with some old posts. Our garden has been challenged, so how about some sharing some old sunflowers...from better gardening days.

These are some of my favorite sunflower posts!



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I love this color!



This was a bird 'planted' sunflower.


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We had some 12 footers by the flag pole in a raised bed. Crazy wind here also.


The weight of this one altered the shape.

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I planted some 12 footers in the garden one year and they went TO the telephone wires.



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Broken heads are great bird feeders.

Sun or shade we have luck with the bush ones. Goldfinches love these!!

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A smaller variety of Autumn Sunset.

This year I planted 6 foot Scarlet Sunflowers, but they are lost next to the neigbor's bamboo...which must love the humidity and the heat....for it is so thick and large this year.


Sunflowers are critter attractors...who of course need no help bending the flowers.

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Aftermath gigantic flower heads, the large one is sitting on a wood 16" bench and back.

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My sunflower painting...

I'm not sure if I worked from memory or photos...

I was featured here:


I Was Featured at I Made it Monday Link Party



How does YOUR
Garden Grow???

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