Day 353: Memorial Day Marigolds

Ashley and I picked up two flats of Marigolds to plant around Mom's garden. We planted them today, but I completely forgot to take a picture of them until we were driving home at 9:30 at night. Luckily, we drove Eastman Road, which is lined with Marigolds. So, at a stoplight, I took a picture.  ":)

Day 347: Lone Tree

Day 346: Spring Flowers

Spring flowers are popping up all over the backyard.

Day 344: Waterfall

While visiting Ashley in Grand Rapids, we went to the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. The place is huge, and there were a lot of sculptures and flowers, but the place wasn't quite as cool as I thought it would be. Still it was pretty cool.

Day 339: Leaves

Day 338: Backyard

Day 332: Pre-Flower

I planted this last spring and it came back! I can't wait until it flowers.

Day 325: Everglades Alligator

We saw a few alligators on the air boat ride we went on in the morning, but we saw way more when we hiked a trail in the Everglades. We got to see a 9-foot alligator swimming (slowly) and thought he was going to get frisky with a female, but not much happened.

Day 323: Strangler Fig

We drove around Miami so that I could collect research for my novel. We saw these gigantic trees all over Coral Gables. (I learned the name later.)

Day 318: Spring Flowers

Looks like spring is finally coming.

Day 317: Happy Easter!

I saw the Easter Bunny this morning. I love how the photo is like the Lochness Monster or Big Foot--vague and hard to see. ":)

Day 315: Earth Day

Finally some green in the yard. Come on spring! Happy Earth Day!

Day 242: Blue Skies

[This photo is completely unedited.] The sky out the back door was beautiful, so I opened the door long enough to snap a picture (it's been quite frosty lately).

Day 184: Let it Snow

Day 150: November Flowers

It's November and while the Marigolds have kicked the bucket, these "stock" flowers are still going strong.  I think I paid less than $2 for the plant...  Yay for it being November and still we don't have snow!

Day 136: Still Autumn

Looking out my bedroom window onto the lovely autumn weather.  [The high was 74 degrees!]  Too bad a cold front is supposed to be coming through on day 139.

Day 119: Autumn Leaves

The weather was so beautiful today (in the high 70s in October in Michigan!) that I couldn't stay inside.  So, the mutts and I went to city forest for a nice long walk.  I looked straight up to get this photo.

Day 118: Photo Shoot

Let me preface this with the statement that sometimes I'm a dork.  Anyway, I'm super excited that this is my last year of school (I am so ready to be done).  When I thought about being a senior and graduation and all that, I thought it would be funny if I had "senior" pictures taken and sent them to my friends and family with my graduation announcement next summer.  So I "hired" Dennis to take some autumn-ish pictures.  My picture of the day is Dennis taking my picture.  ":)

Day 117: The Ring

Just when I thought I was going to complete an entire week of school (going to all classes for the full class period), I decided to bail on my history class (I did go to 2/3 of the class).  I was getting ready to leave campus when I looked over and saw that weird dome thing across the way and I decided it would be my picture of the day.  So, I parked, crossed this weird and muddy creek (which reminds me, I have to hose off my shoes) and came upon the even weirder dome thing which after some research I discovered is called Annual Ring and has to do with the summer solstice.  I still think it's weird, but I was able to get an interesting picture.

Day 116: The Red Tree

This tree is on the road less traveled (day 110).  I love the bright red against the blue sky.