The Most Precious Couple

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Richardson III

Married April 30, 2010

Orlando Temple

of

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

(I am so proud of this young couple and I just love them to pieces!)

Wedding Bells

I'm going to a wedding today.

And I might just take a few pictures.

I'm smiling.

Have a great weekend.

Spam

I don't care how you cook it, I don't consider it meat!

Fun Facts

A Fun Fact for Each State

ALABAMA ... Was the first place to have 9-1-1, started in 1968.

ALASKA ... One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.

ARIZONA ... Is the only state in the continental U.S. that doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.

ARKANSAS ... Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.

CALIFORNIA ... Its economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.

COLORADO ... In 1976 it became the only state to turn down the Olympics.

CONNECTICUT ... The Frisbee was invented here at Yale University.

DELAWARE ... Has more scientists and engineers than any other state.

FLORIDA ... At 759 square miles, Jacksonville is the U.S.'s largest city. Also has the longest shoreline in the US - 8,426 miles of saltwater shoreline.

GEORGIA ... It was here, in 1886, that pharmacist John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola. Is also the largest state east of the Mississippi.

HAWAII .. Hawaiians live, on average, five years longer than residents in any other state.

IDAHO ... TV was invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.

ILLINOIS ... The Chicago River is dyed green every St.Patrick's Day

INDIANA .... Home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which get a half million letters to Santa every year.

IOWA ... Winnebago's get their name from Winnebago County. Also, it is the only state that begins with two vowels.

KANSAS ... Liberal, Kansas, has an exact replica of the house in The Wizard of Oz.

KENTUCKY ... Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox.

LOUISIANA ... Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish church units.

MAINE ... It's so big, it covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.

MARYLAND ... The Ouija board was created in Baltimore in 1892.

MASSACHUSETTS ... The Fig Newton is named after Newton, Massachusetts.

MICHIGAN ... Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capitol of the world. Has the longest

freshwater shoreline in the US - 3,288 miles.

MINNESOTA ... Bloomington's Mall of America is so big, if you spent 10 minutes in each store, you'd be there nearly four days.

MISSISSIPPI ... President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear here ... that's how the teddy bear got its name.

MISSOURI ... Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.

MONTANA ... A sapphire from Montana is in the Crown Jewels of England.

NEVADA... has the only complete skeleton of an Ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile measuring 55 feet.

NEBRASKA ... More triplets are born here than in any other state.

NEW HAMPSHIRE ... Birthplace of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.

NEW JERSEY ... Has the most shopping malls in one area in the world.

NEW MEXICO ... Smokey the Bear was rescued from a 1950 forest fire here.

NEW YORK ... Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.

NORTH CAROLINA ... Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.

NORTH DAKOTA ... Rigby, North Dakota, is the exact geographic center of North America.

OHIO ... The hot dog was invented here in 1900.

OKLAHOMA ... The grounds of the state capital are covered by operating oil wells.

OREGON ... Has the most ghost towns in the country.

PENNSYLVANIA ... The smiley, :) was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.

RHODE ISLAND ... The nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, opened here in 1673

SOUTH CAROLINA ... Sumter County is home to the world's largest ginkgo farm.

SOUTH DAKOTA ... Is the only state that's never had an earthquake.

TENNESSEE ... Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest running live radio show in the world.

TEXAS ... Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco back in 1885.

UTAH ... The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened here in 1952.

VERMONT ... Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald's.

VIRGINIA ... Home of the world's largest office building ... the Pentagon.

WASHINGTON ... Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.

WASHINGTON D.C. .... Was the first planned capital in the world.

WEST VIRGINIA ... Had the world's first brick paved street, Summers Street, laid in Charleston in 1870.

WISCONSIN ... The ice cream sundae was invented here in 1881 to get around Blue Laws prohibiting ice cream from being sold on Sundays.

WYOMING ... Was the first state to allow women to vote.

Yeah, Right

Reagan told me last week that she loved her puppy so much.

I said, you do?

She says, yes. I. do!

So I ask her when she is going to take her puppies home to live with her at her house and

she says, Cinco de Mayo!!

I'm like, What did you say?? (mind you, she's 3)

She says it again,

Cinco de Mayo !

I ask her where she got that from and she said, Dora,

as in Dora the Explorer!

Gosh I just can't wait until the 5th May !

(really the puppies are just fine and growing so fast and they are trained and they play really well with that Boo Dog)

Weeds and Newspaper

Do you think my garden pictures seem a little strange?

Last year I attended a little gardening class and the Home Extension Agent told us to use newspaper to cut down on weeds in the garden.

I used newspaper on one row.

That was the only row that didn't get overcome by weeds!!

I learned my lesson from last year,

the weeds over took my garden and Me!!

It was a nightmare!

I had dreams of weeds growing out my ears and into my shoes.

So this year I wised up and did every row with news paper.

If you want to know more about gardening with newspaper

all you have to do is google it.

There are all kinds of ideas out there on this subject.

But as for me and my house,

"WE ARE BELIEVERS!!!"

Sunday Stills

Sunday Stills

This weeks challenge ~ Barns

Black and White

Sepia

Front of Barn
(Which do you like better, the Black and white, the Sepia of the colored??)

Side

Back Side

Other side from the back.

For more Sunday Stills click here.

Saturday Photo Hunt

Saturday Photo Hunt

This weeks theme ~ Addiction

I can honestly say that this is an Addiction NO MORE!!!

At the beginning of the year I gave up Diet Coke for Diet Coke Caffeine Free

And I am almost ready to give that up too.

I'm down to about a half a can a day!

I just find that medication goes down better with carbonation.

It might be all in the head :)

Friday Shoot Out ~ Trees

~Friday Shoot Out~

Earth Day 2010

Honoring Trees

St. Simons Island, GA.

Anguilla Plantation Hyw 32

Anguilla Plantation

Anguilla Plantation

Anguilla Plantation

Path way going into Driftwood Beach,

Jekyll Island, GA.

Grounds of Jekyll Island Club Hotel

Jekyll Island, GA.

Darien Water Front

Darien, GA.

Birminham, Alabama

Darien Water Front

Darien, GA.

Darien, GA.

Jekyll Island, GA.

Driftwood Beach

Court House Lawn, Brunswick, GA.

For more Members Shoot Out Pictures click here.

Garden Boots, Yoga Pants and Dance Steps

A Real Florida Welcome

Look at that cute smile!

It just couldn't be any sweeter could it?

They especially love tourist.

The official welcoming committee.

(This is for you Aramie, sweet dreams!)

My Biggest Fear

Watch this snake as she is talking.

And she just keeps talking.

and talking!

And we are just freaking out!!

Not my idea of a great summer job.

The Lord's Prayer

7 Months Old

Collin and his parents.

Courtship

No, this is not snow in this tree.


It's the fowl of the air in that tree.

It's mating season for the Wood Stork, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Cattle Egret, Tricolor Heron and little Blue Heron in Florida.

I was thrilled to catch this Egret doing his courtship dance.

For once I was in the right place at the right time.

First, he bows down very low and then ever so slowly, he raises his head higher and higher and stretching his neck to the utmost limit and then bowing down again as he flicks his beautiful feathers. I was thrilled at such a beautiful sight and that I caught it on camera.

The Great Egret was threatened with extinction in the United States as plume hunters in the late 1800s reduced North American populations by more than 95 percent. Egret plumes were used within the fashion industry, primarily for women’s hats, and during peak demand an ounce of egret plumes was worth more than an ounce of gold.