One of seven...

This is one of the most beautiful songs(instrumental) I have ever heard...I cannot hear it without crying. My brother, Neal, used his photos from in and around our home in Tennessee to make this video. I loved it from the moment I heard it, long before the video--can sit and listen to it over and over. The name of the piece is 10,000 Lakes;  I don't know who it is by.

Changes....

In about 7 or 7 1/2 months I will be entering a new phase of life...that of being a grandma! Our youngest daughter and her husband will be having our first grandchild if all goes well. Last week they called us cause they had a plumbing problem...so we ran down there for Roger to see what was up. They actually did have a problem, but I went up into their kitchen to set my purse on the counter and there were two baby bibs laying there; one said 'I Love Grandma" and the other one said "I Love Grandpa.' I looked at her and she nodded her head yes.

Her dad came in and went directly into the basement...Jeremy told him to come upstairs because he wanted him to see something. When he got up there, Jeremy handed him the Grandpa bib and told him he might need that. Needless to say there were tears of joy all around.

Just a 'few' sunflowers....

These were taken in 1996...there were a few farms around here that had big fields of sunflowers. I thought that it was going to become a common thing to see big old fields of sunflowers growing. It was not to be. I think they raised them that year and maybe another and I have yet to see another big field of sunflowers.

I wonder if they had trouble harvesting them before the birds got to them. I know that the sunflowers I usually have sure don't last long. Of all the years, this is the one year I don't have a single sunflower.

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I love this big sunflower head with the morning glories wrapped around it....just something about it appeals to me.