I do not know why I have avoided participating in Carnivals and such in the past, but I think I am going to make a go of participating in

I loved the photo at Mrs. Mecomber’s place New York Traveler.Netand found that it all began back in 2006 at tnchick.com, average blog & home of the photohunt . If I understand the hunt, a new theme is posted every Saturday and you may post a photo that represents.
Since today is Election Day, I thought I would share a photo of an old flag that I took the week that I purchased my camera. I was still learning the settings, so it is not the “best” photo, but I still like it.

I was looking through photos on my hard drive today and tears came to me when I found these photos of my two trips to Galveston last year. I love old architecture. During my trip in August with DD1 we were able to spend some time downtown after our cruise and I took many photos of the lovely buildings along Strand Street. One photo is taken looking from our stateroom on the Carnvial Conquest during embarkation of the March cruise to Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel with DH and DD2.

How a person recooperates from such devastation is mind boggling and to think that a good portion of it is not covered by insurance.

This is a youtube video that we made of embarkation day. There are a ton of photos of our stateroom, because I had several requests asking what that particular room looked like…but there are some photos of the city toward the end.

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And we cannot forget this little guy….

With the weather being cool one week, then blistering the next, my garden (and I) are confused. The only things that are prolific at the moment are the grasshoppers.

Can anyone tell me to what plant this flower belongs? I have two small plants in a long planter with my zuchini (won’t do that again) that never grew very tall, but there are now large blossoms.

My squash took off with the greenery all of a sudden after not producing much for a week and now I have four small squashes to look forward to
eating.


The watermelon planted next to the squash started out like gang-busters and had three melons, but only one reached any size at all…then the vines died. We cut it open last night to find a wonderful aroma, lots of adult seeds, but not much in the meat department.



 Most of my floral hanging baskets are in fair shape….



My pepper ring produced well. This photo was taken just after DD picked all of the bells off of the front pepper plant.

But…this is what most of the rest of my “garden” looks like…

After several attempts at either purchasing a solar dehydrator at a decent cost or making one myself, I have given up and decided to use my electric one outdoors. We moved my baker’s rack onto the side porch to make an outdoor kitchen of sorts and away I went…..