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Annual Rebirth

April 1, 2018 Earnest Painter
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Springtime is all about new beginnings, a new opportunity. The cycle begins again and another year in our life. What a world we live in, that gets reborn every year. 

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Esperanza
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Esperanza
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Esperanza
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From Mom's Flower Garden
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From Mom's Flower Garden
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From Mom's Flower Garden
View fullsize Wisteria - Beginning Anew
Wisteria - Beginning Anew
In Random Photo Day Tags Easter, , Springtime, Earnie Painter, Photography, Earnest Painter, plants
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Wisteria

March 25, 2018 Earnest Painter

Wisteria on the back corner of the house

I came home the other day and found this on the corner of the house. It has long since removed part of the outside panelling of the house, but we can't bring ourselves to destroy it. Actually, Barry destroyed it fairly regularly for a couple of decades until he saw it bloom. Then, he let it go unrestrained and we discovered that it had wound itself inside the corner board. Of course, by then the damage was done, and the cats had done their own set of damage anyway by using it as a sharpening pole. Either way, it's wonderful to come  home to this sight, and the intoxicatingly sweet air that is under it.

My plan is to have a pergola of sorts that the wisteria can climb along. That offer much needed shade, and the thought of these blooms dangling overhead all across the patio is a goal worth having. 

In the meantime, I took some pictures. It's odd that the blooms came before the leaves. Maybe we'll get more blooms later. That would make for a Very Happy Summer.

 Wisteria's hanging blooms on my patio

Wisteria's hanging blooms on my patio

                               

                              

                               

                              

                               

                              

 Looking up

Looking up

 Looking straight up

Looking straight up

 Lovely petals on the ground

Lovely petals on the ground

 And, one can't lay down to take pictures of petals at the ground level without the cats needing to investigate your behavior.

And, one can't lay down to take pictures of petals at the ground level without the cats needing to investigate your behavior.

                               

                              

 Cats and wisteria petals

Cats and wisteria petals

In Cats, Random Photo Day Tags Wisteria, Springtime, Earnie Painter, Earnest Painter, home
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Anastasia in Jeans

February 9, 2018 Earnest Painter
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This is what happens when I leave my jeans on the bed.

In Cats, Random Photo Day Tags Cats, sleep, Earnie Painter, Jeans, Anastasia, Earnest Painter, Nap
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Looking Up

October 24, 2017 Earnest Painter

Outside on break at work today, I sat my mobile on the table with the camera on. This is what I saw looking at me from the screen. 

I do love where I work. 

In Random Photo Day Tags Random Photo Day, Texas DSHS, Rather Earnest Painter, Earnie Painter, Mobile Device, Serendipity
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The Rains

September 2, 2017 Earnest Painter
Random Photo Day - Rain from Hurricane Harvey

Random Photo Day - Rain from Hurricane Harvey

We were not adversely affected by the hurricane that struck the Texas coast. I simply have a tiny collection of pictures that I took of an increasingly rare rainy spell in Central Texas. The temperatures dropped and the lawns and trees were given a much-needed soaking.

Water is the most natural thing in the world. It is necessary for our life, but its force can be the most destructive to the civilizations we have built for ourselves. Things are changing and I do not believe there is a way back. But, I take comfort in thinking that life on Earth will continue, with or without the presence of Man.

In Random Photo Day Tags Hurricane Harvey, Rather Earnest Painter, Earnie Painter
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