Guardedly

Romeo was a vigilant watchdog to the very end.

Pretentiously

I'm not sure how he sees out of the side windows, but it's definitely an impressive etching and paint job.

Anatomy

I was perusing my photo library this evening and came upon Rex.  How could I forget about Rex?  He was a crowd-pleaser (mostly women) at a special photoshoot for a photography group I used to be part of.  As seen in 2010.  

More pictures from this shoot can be found by searching the fashion photography label to the right.

Farinaceously

 Another buzzy, I mean busy, honey bee, covered in pollen.

Techie Corner

Despite hand-holding my camera, not using a macro filter, and a breeze moving the flowers, I think this turned out awesome.

Convergency

A week ago I happened to come upon this interesting roundabout sculpture.  Being that it's round, it seems fitting to be here.  It looks like the inner part of the ring is crushed glass.  I may have to investigate it further someday.  

Ok, so then I start googling and find out that its installation was a big to-do for the city of Bloomington and has been around since 2015.  It's called Convergence and it's 35 feet tall!  You can read more about it on the artist's page.

To get a perspective on size, here is another angle.  It is quite large.

Gemmy

I love how the sunlight is shining through the honey bee.  It looks like a piece of amber or a piece of honey candy.

Techie Corner

Despite hand-holding my camera, not using a macro filter, and a breeze moving the flowers, I think this turned out pretty good.

Engagingly

I really like these strawberry blonde sunflowers.

Perfectly

 Beautiful pink rose.

Respectfully

It would have been dad's birthday today, this first day of autumn.  I went to the cemetery this evening to pay my respects.  

Torridity

 

Orbicularly

 

Striatedly

Went for a walk with my bestie yesterday.  Saw a patch of these pretty flowers along the way.

Wickedly

Rusty the Dragon and the white-washed bones of all his victims.

Sequentially

 

Double-sidedly

 Front and back.  Both sides are intricate.

Reverie

Today it's been 25 years since you left us, dad.  I wish I could fill you in on everything that's happened over the last 25 years. 

I miss you.  

Apprehensively

 

Pointedly

 

Notably

I didn't know that sunflowers come in many different colors until I saw a few of these sprinkled throughout the rows and rows of yellow ones at the Fish Sunflowers field in Braham.  Googling it, I found that this color is called Strawberry Blonde and is considered to be the first rose-pink sunflower, according to HGTV.  

Indelibly

Twenty years ago this morning, I was already hard at work at the Proex Central Lab in Edina.  Those were the days when I would get up at the butt crack of dawn to make it to work for a 7am start time.  That's probably not early for a lot of people, but for a night owl like me, it was brutal.

Back then, we were still processing tons and tons of film and pictures for the masses.  By a quarter to 8, the workday was in full swing.  Many machines were humming away, spitting out 35mm, APS, and 110 film, along with stack after stack of pictures.

I remember someone coming over from another area and said that they heard on the radio that a plane hit one of the World Trade Center towers in NY.  I remember thinking, how could an accident like this happen?  How horrible!  A short time later, someone said a SECOND airplane hit the other tower.  What?  What was going on??  Now I was completely confused.  How could two airplanes accidentally hit a skyscraper in NYC?  I walked over to where the radio was tuned into KQRS and I remember hearing Tom Bernard talking about terrorists.  My heart sank into my shoes. 

If that wasn't horrible enough, two more planes crashed - one into the Pentagon and one into a field in PA.  And also hearing about both towers of the World Trade Center collapsing.  At this point, all I could think about was what was going to happen next?  But there were no more crashes that day.  Everyone was reeling from the news.  All planes were grounded for a couple of days.  It was really eerie while the planes were grounded.  My husband and I were living in an apartment at the time and daily airplane traffic noise was the norm.  Now the skies were silent.  I felt an overwhelming sense of foreboding like something else bad would surely happen. 

What I wanted most was a flag to fly.  An American flag should be easy to find, right?  Wrong!  Flags just weren't all that popular or readily available in 2001.  It boggles the mind.  I went to store after store and came up empty.  It was very frustrating!  Finally, in desperation, I went to the Mall of America to search for a flag.  The ONLY flag I could find was the one featured in today's blog - a Mall of America t-shirt.  I didn't care about MOA, but I wanted that flag.  I started wearing that t-shirt everywhere.  Perfect strangers would smile and give me a thumbs-up for the flag.  

The unitedness of everyone in the weeks that followed was awesome.  It didn't matter who you were or what you believed, we were all united as one nation and terrorists be damned.

I took today's image this evening as I still have the t-shirt.  I don't wear it anymore and as you can tell, it has seen a lot of use.  I keep it tucked away in my dresser.   To never forget. 

Repository

Happy bumblebee, filling up on all that yummy sunflower pollen.  

Jaggy

I really really like this image.  You should visit one of the sunflower fields before they are gone.  

Jazzily

 

Sniffy

Don't forget to stop and smell the sunflowers.  

Dilatedly

We went to the Fish Sunflowers field in Braham today.  Be warned!  Sunflower pictures are coming.  Ha!  They are interesting even before they are in bloom.

nosy

One more of Molly, because she is so cute.

Smirky

Mom and dad look like they are up to something.  Especially dad.  As seen in 1960.

Boisterously

One of our neighbors has these lovely flowers.  I've blogged them before, but I was walking by the other day and saw this and decided to blog them again.  It looks like a tiny ball of geometric fire.

Industriously

Just a busy bee.

Molly