At my costume fitting for "Flags of Our Fathers"! Whooooooooo-hoooooooooo!!!! 

Butterfly Bush Bloom...now if only I could get a clear focus on the BUTTERFLIES!!! 

The Butterfly Bush is doing it's job! 

My Christmas Amaryllis is FINALLY blooming!

Rumble at the Lock!

Hot sun...

Cold drinks...
What a gorgeous day for Riley's Rumble!! :-)



I did race-day registration...


My first job early this pitch-black a.m. was unlocking the port-o-potties...

now THAT'S GLAMOUR!

Ain't it FUN???? 

Pool party today! :-D 

Li'l Guy better be very very careful...my garden encounter TODAY, not caught on film, was with a FOX!!! *Right in my own backyard* so to speak! 

Monsieur le Crapaud 

and the story goes on...

Starting over again
with the patio...

~sigh~



Today's encounter...

Mr. McGreen

What a weekend!

Westminster Running Club's Women's Distance Festival 5K
Lillian was the LAST finisher and also FIRST in her age group, both here AND at the Howard County Strider's WDF 5k on July 10 (in Hilly Columbia). She's one of my Role Models :-)

Getting artistic with a pic from Annapolis Striders' John Wall Memorial Mile...

BRRC Meet of the Miles! My FIRST EVER one-mile race. Within my heat (Women Over 40), I was DFL at about 8:03. There were only FIVE women in my heat. LOL - ooooh, nice points for the Grand Prix Series!!! :-) 

Morning visitor  

There are so many pretty things you suddenly notice when you take a snapshot... 

The neighbors set up a yard sale at the Start/Finish Line of the Annapolis Strider's Women's Distance Festival - this little girl is 1/2 of a pair of identical twins watching the racers come in. Notice the "goods" on sale behind her!  

I parked next to the Gecko Van for my latest audition (At Geico for Geico) 

How I spent my long holiday weekend... 

Hey! I nabbed a GREAT parking spot right by the registration tables! 

Chesapeake Beach 3rd of July Fireworks downtown... 

That's why they invented painters...

I spent the day today prime-coating the parlor for a new paint job. I EXPECTED to do both the prep and the painting today. But...man...I'm LOUSY at painting. I ended up with paint everywhere...and the most uneven looking basecoat you'd ever hope to see...

Perhaps I'll just wait for Jamie to get home, instead of surprising him?

The room is due to go from SMILEY-FACE yellow to Sunbeam, a pale yellow. (Even if we have to HIRE the professionals!)