Dainty Daisy

Amazing how beauty is missed until it is cropped and zoomed in on.  Love the colors against the white!

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For every dark night, there's a brighter day.

Summertime Blooms

A lovely little piece of August summertime :)  ....I miss it already!

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Be yourself.  No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

Beautiful Butterfly

On my bike ride through the State Park, I was amazed to see a Monarch butterfly in October!  He must of been a late bloomer or was lost?   

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If nothing ever changed there'd be no butterflies.

Door County, Wisconsin

We took a lovely weekend trip to Door County.  Here are some highlights (for me treasures), of the fun bike ride through the Peninsula State Park trails.  Yes, my butt hurts but it sure was worth it....

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

Bold and Beautiful

A quick trip to the farmer's market. These beauties were screaming at me to take their picture!

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Promiscuous Floozy Suzies

Okay, so I am feeling a little sassy for title creativity!  These promiscuous Black Eyed Susan's mixed in with the trellis caught my eye (*I just had to use that descriptive word promiscuous... as in the early sense, the meaning of the word is ‘consisting of elements mixed together’) .

They have a mind of their own bunched up together and weaving in and out of the trellis.   I can relate to that!  In the second picture below, one of the flower heads appears to be saluting or waving hello!

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Growth is the only evidence of life. 


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OH BOY, FARMER'S MARKET

I've seen flowers at the farmer's market before and yes they are pretty and all...but typically they look kind of major wild flower looking, sometimes droopy and scraggly.... but oh boy, either I wasn't looking hard enough before or my eye sight has taken a turn for the better.

Today's display of blooms at the market were exceptionally beautiful!  I suppose a lot of outdoor blooms are in peak season right now too, which would explain the flower power show today.  Trust me, I am in the wholesale floral industry so I notice these things.  I typically don't get all giddy with flowers as when you work with them constantly for a career, you kind of become... you know, desensitized.  So when I saw all the wonderful varieties and colors of flowers...my heart started to race.  I got the CSD urge to take some snapshots, so grab your seat for an explosion of color show!  Too bad there is no smellavision with today's computers...

Our new slogan at work is "Love People...Give them Flowers!"  So here I am in a virtual sense, sharing the love with you...awe ;)

These flower bouquets were located at the farmer's market in beautiful downtown Appleton Wisconsin . 

Nature's pretty lucky…I don't think I could get away with wearing that many colors at once and still look good. 

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Green Bay Botanical Gardens, Wisconsin

These pictures are from a recent trip to the Green Bay Botanical Gardens in Wisconsin. A lovely place to visit and a sweet spot to let a crazy CSD individual loose.  I totally recommend going there if you are in the area!  Lots to see so be prepared to be lost in all of it's beauty and forget about the woes of the world!
http://www.gbbg.org

Seize the day and spend it as you wish.

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BOTTOMS UP

Lady Lizzie bug is having a party at her place....I dropped in for some snapshots of their bottoms up event.  They were really busy and ignored me....can you say stuck up?  However they look really happy as I think that they have hit the jackpot and are all sharing the loot!  I love the red against the yellow.  I think that these are some of my favorite snapsnots.... I could not decide which one to post so I posted them all!  ...enjoy the party :)

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared...


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Winter's Beauty

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It was one of those days where the sun was shining perfectly through the trees.  I was actually walking to my car when I had a glimpse of some striking "spent" flowers peaking out of the snow.  I was opening up the car door when I started to have a CSD moment.  I threw my purse into the drivers seat and started searching through the depths of my purse to grab my camera.  I was thinking boy that sun is a shining so this should be a decent shot,  what a beautiful contrast against those lonely flower skeletons...  Here are the results!

Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.


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