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Shelly > June 15, 2009 Mama Sorenson's Daylily Passed down for at least four generations, this daylily got its start in my great grandmother's yard. Thanks to my mother, enough bulb sets have been salvaged and passed along so that my brothers and I as well as our aunts and uncles and cousins have them too. I guess that makes these an heirloom variety in their own right. The heat has pretty well zapped mine for the rest of the year, but I can count on them coming back again. "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." -- William Arthur Ward
Shelly > June 4, 2009 Today is the last day of school -- Popsicles for everyone! "Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished." -- Leslie Nielsen
Shelly > February 6, 2009 Grasping at Straws Oh my I love what I do. A $1.98 bag of colored straws -- legitimate business expense -- and time to work in my west studio. La Ti Da! That's right . . . I have two studios. The main studio is my son's old bedroom which is truly if slowly being converted to a functional studio. The west studio receieves the most wonderful natural south and west light, and it even doubles as a kitchen. Talk about multi-functional! "To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?" -- Katharine Graham
Shelly > orange and green grapes on the cutting board
Shelly > January 15, 2009 Fruit Salad Tonight? Here's wishing I lived closer to Matt so I could put this alongside his Mac and Cheese recovery dinner. I played a little more with my orange juice picture concept today, and although I came up with some ideas that I need to pursue further, I still never got any images that truly blew me away. Why is it that I just want so badly to impress myself? Anyway . . . I gave up on the juicy pics and got out the grapes. The bananas escaped for the time being. Now I owe my family one decently prepared meal at an equally decent hour for a change . . . so I'm done shooting for now. This is straight out of camera, but at least I have a daily! "For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered." --Nancy Parker Brummett
Shelly > January 14, 2009 New lesson. It takes a whole lot of oranges to get a little glass of juice. They had 15 lb bags of oranges on sale for $5.99 the other day, so I bought them. A note of thanks to everyone who was concerned about me being "out of commission." Nothing to worry about, and I apologize for any cause for alarm. I simply thought "out of commission" sounded better than "I couldn't get my act together." "Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious." William Feather -- 1908 - 1976
Shelly > July 12, 2008 Floating on a hot summer day. Swimming pool blue makes a great flower background. It's like having a sky with no sun spots. (Just little stains instead) Note to my mother -- could this possibly be from the elusive "lost" bulb that you gave me two or three years ago? The individual blossoms are about 1 1/2 inches, but they're on stalks with at quite a few of the smaller stems like this one. Quite a striking display, and they're doing so well that they could even be thinned and shared after they finish blooming.
Shelly > June 25, 2008 First Tomatoes of the Season Well, maybe not the very first. The first one was a big full size Celebrity variety, but the birds got it. The second one was one of these little Sweet 100's. I ate it almost as fast as I could pick it off the vine. Had to wait a while for these. Back when the kids were little, we used to make a huge production of the first produce from our garden. I'd put it on a good china plate, and slice it into equal portions for each of us to enjoy even if it wsa just a single little cherry tomato. Sometimes, we'd even light candles to celebrate. We'd always share the most legendary stories about past gardens, especially about Ian gorging himself on so many tomatoes that were still hot in the yard, that the juice ran down his bare tummy and turned him red. Our other most favorite-est tale was about the time Dustin and a neighbor boy went out to play and ate the entire carrot crop, dirt and all. Each carrot was only about two inches long and as sweet as candy. Now I think I'm the only one who still gets excited about the first tomatoes. Didn't even get out the good china this time, but I decided to give these little beauties a special treatment with selective coloring. This may be is a rather crude effort, but it was my first try.
Shelly > June 4, 2008 Daylilies in the Morning It was still early when I shot this, and the blossoms opening for the day had not yet reached their potential. With the previous day's spent blossom still hanging on and at least four or five days of potential promise in coming buds, the daylilies spoke to me. They really didn't speak. Actually, they sang "This is Your Life" by one of my favorite bands, Switchfoot. It's a very special song to me because it was one of the elements that encouraged me to make some important changes in my own life. Part of the lyrics go like this: yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead yesterday is a promise that you've broken don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes this is your life and today is all you've got now yeah, and today is all you'll ever have don't close your eyes don't close your eyes this is your life, are you who you want to be this is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be when the world was younger and you had everything to lose yesterday is a kid in the corner yesterday is dead and over this is your life, are you who you want to be this is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be when the world was younger and you had everything to lose
June 15, 2009

Mama Sorenson's Daylily

Passed down for at least four generations, this daylily got its start in my great grandmother's yard. Thanks to my mother, enough bulb sets have been salvaged and passed along so that my brothers and I as well as our aunts and uncles and cousins have them too. I guess that makes these an heirloom variety in their own right.

The heat has pretty well zapped mine for the rest of the year, but I can count on them coming back again.

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." -- William Arthur Ward
Shelly > June 15, 2009 Mama Sorenson's Daylily Passed down for at least four generations, this daylily got its start in my great grandmother's yard. Thanks to my mother, enough bulb sets have been salvaged and passed along so that my brothers and I as well as our aunts and uncles and cousins have them too. I guess that makes these an heirloom variety in their own right. The heat has pretty well zapped mine for the rest of the year, but I can count on them coming back again. "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." -- William Arthur Ward
June 15, 2009

Mama Sorenson's Daylily

Passed down for at least four generations, this daylily got its start in my great grandmother's yard. Thanks to my mother, enough bulb sets have been salvaged and passed along so that my brothers and I as well as our aunts and uncles and cousins have them too. I guess that makes these an heirloom variety in their own right.

The heat has pretty well zapped mine for the rest of the year, but I can count on them coming back again.

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." -- William Arthur Ward
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