“After every storm the sun will smile, for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer”
~William R. Alger~

“The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.”
~Unknown~

“Don’t miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold.”
~Unknown~

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
~ Lyman Frank Baum~

One of the few cereals my parents would let us eat. Now there is Multi Grain, Honey Nut, Banana Nut and yesterday I discovered Chocolate Cheerios.

“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint”
~Don Marquis~

To see more of the clouds go to my Cloud Gallery

Green Thumb or Not?

Birthday Presents

These are a couple of the birthday presents I got from my two friends Christine & Peggie.
I decided to blog about whether I could grow this flower or not.
So here goes…….
This is what I should end up with.

Maltese Cross/Burning Love

Place the starter soil pellet in a bowl or cup. Add approximately 1/6 cup lukewarm water. Let the starter soil pellet absorb the water
Put the soil in the pot.

Starter Pellet after watering

Sow no more than 10 seeds in the pot and save the rest to plant in your garden.
Place the seeds on top of the soil and lightly press the seeds in to the soil. Cover seeds with 1/8″ of soil.

Seeds

Place in a sunny location.
Keep the soil moist. Transplant when the plants are 3″ tall to a larger pot or to your garden. Make sure to add plant food when plants are 3″ tall.
To be continued……….

Waiting

I don’t feel any different so I guess I had nothing to worry about afterall.

Today I turned fifty. I feel really good.
My body’s still working quite well thanks. (Touch wood!)
My hair’s not too grey, my wrinkles are few,
I can still touch my toes with my knuckles. (Can you?)
I’m quite full of vigour, just getting ripe.
(But they now print the phone book in much smaller type.)
My hearing’s still good. What’s that you say?
Speak clearly, don’t mumble, your voice wafts away.
Inside this old body I’m still young, but then
If life starts at forty, I’m really just ten.
~Sue Taylor~

Only old people used chains to hold their glasses…..until youngsters like me started using them.

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we’ve no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people’s gardens
and learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
or only bread and pickles for a week
and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay our rent and not swear in the street
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

~Jenny Joseph~

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
~Rabindranath Tagore~

“The camera is my tool.Through it, I give a reason to everything around me.”
Andre Kertesz

To see the rest of this album
http://www.elleciecarmouche.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=2171

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
~Mother Teresa~

“Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well.”
~Bonnie Wilcox ‘Old Dogs, Old Friends’~

“In this bright future you can’t forget your past.”
~Bob Marley~

If wishes were horses beggars would ride

“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”
~ Henri Matisse~