Thinking Of You - Part 1

I'm guessing most of you are like me in that things you see when you are out and about often remind you of fellow bloggers. When I have my camera or phone with me, I try to capture those images. I've been meaning to turn these into a blog post for a while now, but I will have to do so in two parts because this is taking a lot of organizing! If you are a regular commenter on my blog, I will have a picture for you below or in my next installment. Enjoy and thanks for being a faithful follower.

Betty's blog is called 'A Bench With a View." Betty has been observing life more from her home work station than from benches lately. This is the best view I've ever had, while sitting on a bench. It was at Polo Beach, Wailea, Maui last year.

Have you ever read about something new and then all of a sudden, you start seeing whatever it was you heard about? A long time ago, Xavier introduced me to barn quilts on his blog. Now, whenever I see one, I think about Xavier. This is a barn quilt I discovered about 5 miles from where I live.

Ron loves the Big Apple so much, he has decided to move back there next year. Ron posts beautiful photos of his travels to NYC. My husband, on the other hand, hates having to go there on business. I will often ask him to send me a photo while he's there. Here's one he sent from a cab labeled, "Smell You Later, NYC."

Sage enjoys being out on the water, whether it's sailing, canoeing or kayaking. Here is a picture of our crooked river, the Cuyahoga. People really do kayak on it, a little further south of this industrial area downtown.

 

 

Jimmy writes about a lot of his hilarious adventures and recently mentioned how nobody knows how to pack groceries anymore. I wholeheartedly agree, especially when it comes to packing up the cloth bags. I took this photo after shopping for our July 4th cookout. The grocery store I went to doesn't allow shopping carts in the parking lot, so you have to pull up and have the car loaded by one of the baggers. Not only do they fail at bagging, 50% of the time, they ignore my bag holder I have in my trunk to prevent bags from toppling over. Kills me every time!

Crystal Chick is a very crafty blogger who designs jewelry and recently did a post with photos of her cactus gardens, made of painted rocks! I'm always amazed at her work. This is a photo of a fairy garden my middle child made this year. She went with a beach theme, but with succulents. It turned out really cute!

Craig, what can I say? You are one of my longest running blogger friends (I believe you go back with Xavier and Secret Agent Woman to 2009). Although I'm not a sports fan like you, I did attend 2 MLB games this summer. This here was indeed a beautiful night for baseball!

 

Pat Hatt and his cats have a blog called, "It's Rhyme Time." Pat is also an accomplished author of many, many books. His blog, though, is the cats' domain. I thought of Pat and his cats last fall, while touring the Castello di Amorosa in Napa. This cat was the king of the castle, lounging in the sun.

Stay tuned, everyone else . . .