This is a huge Dragon Fly Huge Butterfly

Our back yard is "just beautiful, after some TLC and rain it's lovely. We are spending more time in it this year than in years past... maybe it knows it and is showing off... This is the third year for this oak leaf hydrangea (sleep, creep, and leap) It must be true. The smell of the Carolina Jasmine is wonderful..
I love this Ivy.. about 4 years ago, my friend Laura (snoot) Bridges and I went to a garden show in Greensboro. They had hundreds of the most beautiful specimen plants I have ever seen in one yard. Many of the plants you could have a start of, they had shovel's and bags next to the plants. I look a very small start of the ivy.
Some of the Ivy leaves are 8 inches across.

What a sweet boy... We had a good time the other night playing, the weather was great.. we ate on the back deck and Robby played on the slide.. I can't believe how fast he is growing, almost two.

Wow...did you read the sweet stuff Jane said about me... I just love her! And I love Random Arts They have the best classes, the best teachers and the best stuff...check out the classes coming up... Katie Kendrick, Kristin Stenier, Pattie Brady and that is just this summer. My new Inspired friends Sarah & Maryann are going with me to Random Arts in June to take Kristin Stenier booklace class look how cool..

I wish I had taken more pictures of all the things I made at Art & Soul... I only finished Stephaine Rubaino and Sally Jean Alexander's class. I was so looking forward to meeting Sally Jean, I have been a fan for years, I have several of her charms (I wore all of them to class and ask her to sign my book) I haven't finished my project in Michael deMeng's class either, I learned so much about paint from him. I was so blown away with the different effects you can achieve with Golden paints. I wish I had ask Michael to sign my copy of his book. I also learned about making collage journal pages... I really had a good time but it didn't feel the same happy, and fun energy I felt at Donna Downey's Inspired Artist Workshop.

What a great time I had at my first Art and Soul Hampton VA 08. The photo on the right is my perching pixie on the cigar box in Stephanie Rubiano class. On the left is the 11 saw blades I broke making my pixie in Stephanine's class...She was great, I learned how not to break any more.