August life

I went to see Lucinda Williams!! She is doing a 25 year anniversary tour for her album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. It was so so good. She played the whole album through, and then played a set of other songs. In between songs she talked about writing them or about the people that they were about. It was really cool to hear all that. I learned that one of my favorite songs, "2 Kool 2 Be 4-gotten" was inspired by a photograph of some graffiti, and now the spelling of the title makes a lot more sense. haha

I've been sending a significant amount of mail recently. Having fun matching stamps with airmail envelopes.

I ran down my stationery supply to my last 5 notecards! And the last ones were my cutest ones, Mary Engelbreit, and bunnies gardening, dressed up in cute outfits. These are the types of cards that I hang onto longest because I'm such a sucker for them that I don't want to let them go. 

Of course, I couldn't stand not having a bunch of notecards for long. I used some of my storecredit at our used bookstore to buy two packs of art notecards, Monet and someone I'd never heard of before and can't remember their name now. Woops. Turning books I don't want anymore into notecards is the best kind of magic.

Currently reading Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. I'm all bundled up in this picture because I frequently disagree with someone about the thermostat in our house! ;)

My exciting news: I signed up for a watercolor class at the community center! I can't wait! It starts in September and I have to see if the supplies I already own match the list for the class.

Summertime happenings

Petunias doing well on our patio. 

Volunteer morning glories from last year! Being eaten up by something.

Hubble loves biting and herding this ball. He pushes it around with his nose.

This sign at the pool is like a bad pick up line.

Visited my family in Maryland for a memorial for my grandfather who passed away earlier this year. Spent time with my grandmother and looked through old photos. My grandmother looks so glamorous even in this simple outfit. She reminds me of Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina, wearing that little black outfit.

I saw this on the wall in a crab house in Princess Anne-- the disappearance of Holland Island! Soooo creepy!

Went to Assateague with a couple friends and had just the best beach day ever. Not too hot, perfect easy waves, saw so many ponies. We walked on the beach, we swam, we waded, we sat in the shade of our umbrella and caught up. I showed them how to catch sand crabs. We saw piping plovers, brown pelicans and seagulls, seagulls, seagulls. I love this place so much.

We couldn't rinse off when we left the beach because they were drinking at the spigot!!

Here's a sketch my grandmother did many years ago for a poster for the Chincoteague Pony Penning.

But it's good to be home after time away, sleeping in my own bed, snuggling Hubble again, going back to work so I can bring in that moolah!

Enjoying the backyard

Spring and summer have been lovely.

The groundhog and squirrels continue to eat basically everything we plant despite the hot pepper wax spray, but we do have one cucumber of significant size that we could pick pretty soon!

Some of my favorite spring/summer-like notecards

I just love those white dresses.  There was a time when I was younger when I wanted to dress exclusively in white dresses. My inspiration was Emily Dickenson. :-D

This went off to my cousin a little over a year ago.