off I65

i took back roads home yesterday. generally i drive about 100 miles on the interstate. yesterday, i drove about 25. mostly it was cornfields and farmhouses; it was lovely, really. i enjoy that kind of driving.



then, when i was almost home, i came around a corner and saw this building. it was perfect. so i turned around, pulled over and shot some photos.

decision made

so i couldn't decide whether i should blog about kindergarten graduation, playing with my camera at a baseball game, today's ride home or my blooming radishes. but since blogger won't let me upload photos, they will all have to wait until later. :)

food with faces

a couple of weeks ago i posted a close-up photo of my newest crochet creation. i thought it was a pretty ambiguous photo. april, however, immediately knew it was a cupcake. she's smart like that. what made it even better was that it was her cupcake! i made it to commemorate her tenth anniversary at work. the photo above is courtesy of april, as i forgot to shoot anything but close ups. :)



and it's pretty hard to celebrate without some sort of baked goodies, so i made tasty treats, too. :)

food with faces ... so much fun.

tulip tree blooms

for thirty years i lived in a house with a tulip tree out front. not once did any one in the family notice that it actually gets blooms on it. blooms that, amazingly enough, look a lot like tulips.

thirty years.

zombie's brother

one of the gals at work requested a zombie, so i whipped one up this week. i've been doing a lot of crocheting and needed a break from dodecahedrons and flowers. plus, i just can't bring myself to try another headband that i'm going to end up ripping out completely. :)

next up: zombie's other brother, a request from a previous co-worker. and then perhaps a small lion. or a penguin. i like the idea of a lion with a fuzzy mane. yes.

blooms

i had really hoped that the entire stalk would bloom at the same time, but burt has other ideas. his third bloom opened this morning, and by the time i got home tonight his first bloom had faded.



this bloom isn't attached to burt, and it just finished opening today, too. i got a new camera today, and this is the type of photo New Camera allows me to take that Old Camera did not. it makes me very, very happy.

burt's progress

a second flower has opened!