Macro Monday

We had a visitor!!

Rain is finally gone and the sun is shining.

Sunday Stills Challenge – “Wildflowers”

Ed’s challenge for us this week was to photograph wildflowers.  This past week has not allowed me to go out and travel our country roads in search of “wildflowers” so I did have to go to my archieves for this challenge, but they are all “widflowers” that I have photographed.

These beautiful Bluebonnets were taken when we took an anniversary drive while we were still living in Texas.  I do miss these beautiful flowers.

These beautiful wild roses crop up all along our East Tennessee countryside in early summer. Most folks think they are invasive, I love them.

This is a close-up shot of some of the wild roses

Wild Honeysuckle

Some of our Smoky Mt. beauty is the wild rhododendrons.  They grow all over the mountain sides.

Some daisy type flowers with  big fat bumble bee.

Lovely cone flowers.   These were used for medicinal purposes by the indians in days of old.

Woodland triliums found up along the North river, close to home.

Wild Wisteria, you can also see a few Dogwood blossoms in the lower left.

The pink flower is called Joe Pye, I don’t know the name of the yellow flower.  These were taken up along the North river road where it meets the Cherohala Skyway.

It has been raining for two days!  April showers bring May flowers!

Sunday Stills Challenge – HOT!

Ed challenge to us this week was to photograph something hot.  Well when I think of hot I think of peppers, and the wonderful goodies you can make from peppers like salsa.  Every year I grow a variety of peppers in our garden, and I love to make and can salsa.  Here are some of my peppers, collectibles and fresh.

Garden fresh peppers from last years garden.

Salsa

Have a nice week everyone.

Wordless Wednesday

Sunday Stills Challenge – Hand Tools

Our challenge from Ed this week, “This weeks challenge is hand tools, I made it hand tools to give it a bit of a challenge. Bonus points for really old tools.”  I thought yeah! I knew what I wanted to do right away.  We headed into the nearby small town of Sweetwater where the main attraction is their antique stores.  One in particular where Chuck always gravatates to a booth with old tools.  Eureka!!

And here we have current hand tools used by Chuck and myself.

These are Chuck’s wood turning tools.

And these are the hand tools that I have been using this week.

Have a beautiful week everyone.  We get a visit with Ed as he is coming home for his birthday.

Sunday Stills Challenge – Trains

This was a tough challenge for me since we don’t have a train track within 20 miles of our house!  So, I borrowed one of Chuck’s nick-nacks to photograph.  This is a macro train, probably only about 5″ long!

I hope you all have a beautiful week, the temps here will be in the middle to upper 70′s!!  I see lots of gardening in my future.

Macro Monday

I haven’t done a Macro Monday in quite awhile so I thought I’d share a shot today.

Ornamental Plum

Bradford Pear

Dogwood

Have a beautiful week everyone.  I can’t believe it’s April already!!