Mother's Day Flowers

Hydrangea from my "Heart Mate"

He's been giving me flowers on

Mother's Day for a long long while.

I became a mother for the first time

when I was nineteen years old.....

a sweet baby girl.

She was our first blessing straight from God and a constant

delight in our lives now.

God would

bless us again with two more beautiful children,

a boy that as a child would bring us joy and laughter,

and another daughter who would dance ballet,

one day marry

and have four babies.

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and now....I am Grandmother

having

grandchildren.....that number nine,

the youngest being seven months old

they

fill my life with much love and incredible happiness....

God is good....

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Ah....Mother's Day...a time for reflection.

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Happy Mother's Day

dear dear ladies having been

blessed with children....

Dee Dee

....my grandson

......sitting up is a good thing, and at

seven months old, he's got a lot

of exploring to do.

What we have here is my grandson,

trying to pick up polka-dot reflections

on the floor. The curtains are sheer

and the sun is shining through casting

little dots all over the place.

He is so precious, as he gives this

some serious thought.

Using my pencils and watercolors,

he has been defined as ......"pure sweetness."

Blessings.....Dee Dee

cont......Blue Tasseled Hat

"I entered the room just like she told me to. She

kept calling me Sam and at first I tried explaining

my name wasn't Sam, that she was mistaking me

for someone else. She wasn't listening to me

and kept talking, saying something about this

being the date we had planned to go away together."

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"Man, I just wanted to get out of there when

I noticed the bottle of pills turned

over on the table."

"I've waited for you to come back, she said. I

knew you would come and I'm wearing your

favorite dress and the hat that always made

you smile when I wore it."

"I could barely make out the hat as the

Hotel Chelsea sign kept blinking off and on.

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"I wasn't going to touch her officer, I swear....

but suddenly she said, "Kiss me Sam"

and I kissed her."

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"Officer, I swear, I tried to talk some sense into

her." I said, "Lady, you got the wrong guy!"

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As the detective walked out into the night air, he

knew the kid had been telling the truth.

He had heard these stories before, where

a jilted woman unable to get through the clouds,

gets swallowed up in the city and then one day......

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No one knew anything about her, not even her name.

She was known only as the

"The Lady In The Blue Tassled Hat."

.......by Dee Dee

"The Lady In The Blue Tasseled Hat

.....No one knew who she was

when she checked into the Chelsea Hotel

that hot summer afternoon in 1957.

The inhabitants there would consider

her a woman of mystery. She was

friendly with no one and her penetrating

blue eyes seemed sad, as though they

were locked on sadness, still somewhere in her past.

The lady in apartment #102

lived a secluded life and never had visitors.

Deliveries were made and left by her door.

Seldom

did she leave her apartment,

and when she did,

she always wore a "blue

tasseled hat."

Whispers and speculations were made

by the doorman and the desk clerk,

and they often wondered if she were a spy.

And then....

late one night the desk clerk answered a

call from her apartment. Her voice had

sounded faint, but it had been clear she

wanted him to come at once.

Having knocked on the door, he had heard

her say "Come in, the door is open."

The apartment was dark, but he could see

her silhouette standing between french

doors that opened onto a balcony.

The neon lights

from the Chelsea Hotel sign

blinked on and off and the clerk could

see the woman was wearing a long chiffon

gown, and the "blue tasseled hat."

She held a cigarette in her hand and

the smoke encircled her head.

"I knew you'd come," she said.

It's been a long time......

The clerk realized she had mistaken him

for someone else,

perhaps someone she once knew........ to be continued.
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It seems.....

that my drawings are generating

characters right out of good ole mystery novels....

....having a good time with my imagination

when I bring out my pencils and watercolors.

Good blessings.....Dee Dee

Sweet Periwinkle

.....by the birdbath, between

the bricks, I noticed tiny

leaves poking through.

That was a few weeks ago,

and today, there grows one long stem

of sweet Periwinkle.

So many things are happening

in the garden, and each day brings

unexpected surprises. The heat

and the humidity have returned,

and that means watering the plants

will have to be often and will be necessary.

We're expecting rain for the next

few days....it will be welcomed

and most gratefully received.

Blessings.....Dee Dee

click on photos to enlarge...

......gender partners

A daughter is a mother's gender partner....

her closest ally in the family confederacy,

and extension of her self.

And mothers and their daughter's role,

model their biological and emotional road map,

the arbiter of all their relationships~Victoria Secunda

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Mother and daughter are in the above photo,

once again in the theme of "Mother's Day"....

While walking on the beach late

Sunday afternoon...

I happened upon this beautiful setting

of quiet time between a

mother and daughter.

Taking turns placing

their hand down in a hole filled with water,

they brought out dripping wet sand,

building a sand castle together.

Smiling at one another,

their conversation was quiet,

meant only for the two of them.

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I think the photo captures this

sweet sweet moment between

mother and daughter... "gender partners."

Blessings.....Dee Dee

click on photo to see sweet details enlarged....

.....for Mother's Day

......I've been inspired by Picasso's

"Mother and Child"

and why not make my own cards

for the occasion.

So I brought out my pencils and

watercolors and this sweet

painting came into being.

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We have a growing family,

with precious little mothers,

and mother's to be.

I love that I have another opportunity

to send messages of love, while

thanking them for sweet grandbabies.

Good blessings for the day.....Dee Dee

"So I said to her.....

"Honey....ne'va ne'va, expose your delicate,

perfectly lovely and, eva' so sensitive

skin to the sun."....." Why dahlin'

a "southern lady" would just

ne'va, ne'va ev'va do such a thing."

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We walked on the beach again this

afternoon, and it occured to me

that young ladies of today,

are not so concerned with exposing

their skin to the sun.

I can remember doing the same thing

when I was much younger.

These days, I can be seen

sitting in the sun for shorter periods

of time.....while

wearing one very large brimmed hat

or sitting beneath a very large umbrella.

From all I've read....we'd all better

use some precaution while having

fun in the sun....

Let's put on a good sunscreen to protect us

and read up on the dangers of over-exposing ourselves

to the sun.

Have a great week.....Dee Dee

click on painting to enlarge

I will give thanks to You, O Lord,

with all my heart, I will declare

all Your wondrous deeds. Psalm 9:2

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Blessings this Lord's Day...... Dee Dee

.....and the living is easy....

oh my.....the temps are pushing 90 degrees

but that's alright......the living is easy

and the air conditioning is feeling mighty fine.

Saturday's are always busy for me.......

but today is a good, fun busy day.

We started the day off with a T-Ball game,

watching some skillful, well-played

short-stop manuvers by

our grandson...

Then, a little shopping at everyones favorite

store "Wal-Mart" ...uhmmm...

looking for another fan....I think we're gonna need it.

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The flowers shown here,

are

from last summer.....

Gorgeous Geraniums, Impatiens

and Begonias.

I'll be looking for the same kind

of arrangement when we stop in

to Home Depot garden area....later today.

The Mister will be

shopping for a new mail box

and I'll be in my usual place......

amongst the flowers.

So.....you can see...

we're having a fun busy day.

Blessings.....Dee Dee