This old Dodge B-Series pickup (1948 to 1953) doesn’t seem to have any ‘pick up and go’ at the moment, just the way I feel sometimes on the dark, rainy days.
Old Dodge Truck
Picture of the Day for June 19, 2013
As I continue the ‘old’ theme week, the subject is a birthday girl who is six years old today. Now most would not consider six as being old for a cat but it is for Miss Tippy since this ‘nice’ orphan kitty that I rescued when a few days old gives me presents in the sink when she is unhappy with me. And the ‘presents’ is poop so she is running out of her nine days and may lose her home comforts as I lose my patience.
Birthday Kitty
This naughty cat was the subject of children book I wrote a year ago so that is her only saving grace.
Picture of the Day for June 18, 2013
The back end of an old potato planter is a good continuation of the ‘old’ week. With the unusual wet spring, the horse drawn equipment had a better chance of getting into the field than the big tractors.
Old Planter
Picture of the Day for June 17, 2013
Since I used an old truck picture yesterday, I figured it was time for an older barn picture. This barn caught my eye since it is quite different from the barns around my area so I had to backup to take this barn shot. Even the silo was different with the pretty stone base under the concrete stave structure.
Red Framed Windows Barn
Picture of the Day for June 16, 2013
For Mother’s Day, one often gives flowers to mom and for Father’s Day, tools or other manly things might be the preferred gifts. I wonder if this old Ford truck would work as a gift for both mom and dad since it is a manly toy with flowers!
Manly Flower Truck
Picture of the Day for June 15, 2013
I am always on the lookout for old things like barns, tractors, machinery and trucks. While this truck isn’t really old, it is old looking and makes a wonderful flower pot.
Flower Truck
Picture of the Day for June 14, 2013
In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on that day in 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
The idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as ‘Flag Birthday’. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as ‘Flag Birthday’, or ‘Flag Day’.
You can spot flags in various places but it isn’t often you see a flag pattern on a barn roof. All I know is that I would not want to have been one of the workers shingling the roof as I probably would have messed up the pattern and it would have been a mess instead of a flag.
Flag Barn
Picture of the Day for June 13, 2013
The June days are bringing forth beautiful flowers. Even the ant is enjoying the flowers.
Enjoying Flowers
Picture of the Day for June 12, 2013
It can be real relaxing sitting by the water watching the birds and ducks flying around the lake and listening to the gentle lapping of waves on the shore and the call of the loons.
Sunset by Lakeside
Picture of the Day for June 11, 2013
The honeysuckle bushes in pink blossoms looks very pretty but Tatarian honeysuckles as well as the Amur and Morrow honeysuckles are non-native plants that are able to out-compete native wildflowers for light and other resources. Bush honeysuckles green up earlier in the spring than most other plants, giving them an advantage over other species.
Tatarian Honeysuckle Blossoms
