Moody Monday
1. Peaceful
2. Fragile
3. Distant
4. Impermanence
5. Nostalgic
Photos: 1. A floater at Great Oaks Country Club in Floyd. 2. Gone to seed plant in my yard. 3. Buffalo Moutain as shot from The Saddle on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd, Virginia. 4. Sand castles at Bethany Beach, Delaware. 5. Aging sunflower in my garden gazing at a newly blooming patch of Jerusalem Artichoke flowers.
August 14th, 2006 7:01 am
Nice photos, Colleen. Were they from a recent vacation?
August 14th, 2006 9:36 am
I absolutely love the Buffalo mountain one……Especially since I have been there. Great shots!!! xoxo
August 14th, 2006 9:47 am
lovely…………. truly.
here from Michele’s.
August 14th, 2006 11:12 am
Thanks for the captions, Colleen.
August 14th, 2006 11:29 am
Love the pictures.
That game sounded like fun. And, so cool to get the phone call.
August 14th, 2006 2:30 pm
Are those flowers behind the sun flower the Jeruselum Artichokes? I’ve never seen them, but I recall Edgar Cayce suggesting them in readings for healing. I always wondered what they were.
Great shots!
August 14th, 2006 3:20 pm
Yes, the tall yellow flowers are Jerusalem Artichokes. Joe got them from a friend and planted them years ago. Occasionally he digs up the tubers and eats them, but I don’t care for them. Although, they make a great survival food and they grow on the sides of the road around here.
I just did a quick look up and found that Cayce recommeded them for diabetes. Raw, they taste like water chestnuts, but can also be cooked. Another reason they are a good survival food is that they are harvested all through the fall into spring when other foods are scarce.
August 14th, 2006 4:35 pm
No wonder you are so good at scrabble.
August 14th, 2006 4:58 pm
That pool and view look fantastic! Our milkweed hasn’t popped yet…I’m waitin’!
August 14th, 2006 8:07 pm
Beautiful photographs Colleen and I love the words you have put to each one, too. Moody Monday, indeed.
August 14th, 2006 8:08 pm
I need a picture for “tired” this Monday!!!! Move-in day at the college dorm is coming up… I just love those. (much sarcasm) It is the only time I wish I had a husband or that Nyssa was a boy. (If she were a young man I could throw the bags in the back of his pick-up and wave bye. Boys live smaller than girls do.
August 14th, 2006 10:17 pm
That was a great post. Beautiful photos and perfect captions!
August 15th, 2006 8:22 am
wow beautiful pictures and captions. who made that amazoing sand fort?? my gran used to do things like that with me on the beautiful fine sand in cornwall. i find it hard here as the sands too rough.
lovely post thank you.
August 15th, 2006 11:49 am
Wow! Cool photos. I love the captions… 🙂 My personal favourite of the bunch is “Distant”. So peaceful looking.
August 15th, 2006 5:43 pm
Ooooh, what great photos, Colleen!
#2 was my favorite but #3…that view is spectacular! Can’t wait to see this in person in just 2 months!
August 15th, 2006 6:29 pm
Hi again, Colleen: Thanks for answering on my blog. The address for my friend in Alaska is twofleas.blogspot.com but even putting in just twofleas (under Blogger.com) will bring it up. Ginnie
August 16th, 2006 8:09 pm
Afloat and a-blow in the Fields of the Lord.
August 18th, 2006 7:41 am
Not milkweed. Goatsbeard. Also called Oyster Plant. See you tomorrow in RM. — FF
August 18th, 2006 7:33 pm
I swam in that pool often while growing up. I also played a lot of golf there as well. But when I was a member there were only 9 holes, and the part of the course you can see from your photo was part driving range, part grassy field, part and part woods. Speaking of nostalgic, I think it was a lot prettier then than now.