Moody Monday
1. Peaceful
2. Fragile
3. Distant
4. Impermanence
5. Nostalgic
Photos: 1. A floater at Great Oaks Country Club in Floyd. 2. Gone to seed plant in my yard. 3. Buffalo Moutain as shot from The Saddle on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd, Virginia. 4. Sand castles at Bethany Beach, Delaware. 5. Aging sunflower in my garden gazing at a newly blooming patch of Jerusalem Artichoke flowers.
Comments
Nice photos, Colleen. Were they from a recent vacation?
Posted by: kenju | August 14, 2006 7:01 AM
I absolutely love the Buffalo mountain one......Especially since I have been there. Great shots!!! xoxo
Posted by: Sherry | August 14, 2006 9:36 AM
lovely............. truly.
here from Michele's.
Posted by: tia | August 14, 2006 9:47 AM
Thanks for the captions, Colleen.
Posted by: kenju | August 14, 2006 11:12 AM
Love the pictures.
That game sounded like fun. And, so cool to get the phone call.
Posted by: Nancy | August 14, 2006 11:29 AM
Are those flowers behind the sun flower the Jeruselum Artichokes? I've never seen them, but I recall Edgar Cayce suggesting them in readings for healing. I always wondered what they were.
Great shots!
Posted by: Kathy | August 14, 2006 2:30 PM
Yes, the tall yellow flowers are Jerusalem Artichokes. Joe got them from a friend and planted them years ago. Occasionally he digs up the tubers and eats them, but I don't care for them. Although, they make a great survival food and they grow on the sides of the road around here.
I just did a quick look up and found that Cayce recommeded them for diabetes. Raw, they taste like water chestnuts, but can also be cooked. Another reason they are a good survival food is that they are harvested all through the fall into spring when other foods are scarce.
Posted by: colleen | August 14, 2006 3:20 PM
No wonder you are so good at scrabble.
Posted by: Tabor | August 14, 2006 4:35 PM
That pool and view look fantastic! Our milkweed hasn't popped yet...I'm waitin'!
Posted by: Janet | August 14, 2006 4:58 PM
Beautiful photographs Colleen and I love the words you have put to each one, too. Moody Monday, indeed.
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | August 14, 2006 8:07 PM
I need a picture for "tired" this Monday!!!! Move-in day at the college dorm is coming up... I just love those. (much sarcasm) It is the only time I wish I had a husband or that Nyssa was a boy. (If she were a young man I could throw the bags in the back of his pick-up and wave bye. Boys live smaller than girls do.
Posted by: srp | August 14, 2006 8:08 PM
That was a great post. Beautiful photos and perfect captions!
Posted by: Deana | August 14, 2006 10:17 PM
wow beautiful pictures and captions. who made that amazoing sand fort?? my gran used to do things like that with me on the beautiful fine sand in cornwall. i find it hard here as the sands too rough.
lovely post thank you.
Posted by: keda | August 15, 2006 8:22 AM
Wow! Cool photos. I love the captions... :) My personal favourite of the bunch is "Distant". So peaceful looking.
Posted by: Froggie | August 15, 2006 11:49 AM
Ooooh, what great photos, Colleen!
#2 was my favorite but #3...that view is spectacular! Can't wait to see this in person in just 2 months!
Posted by: Terri | August 15, 2006 5:43 PM
Hi again, Colleen: Thanks for answering on my blog. The address for my friend in Alaska is twofleas.blogspot.com but even putting in just twofleas (under Blogger.com) will bring it up. Ginnie
Posted by: Ginnie | August 15, 2006 6:29 PM
Afloat and a-blow in the Fields of the Lord.
Posted by: Rick | August 16, 2006 8:09 PM
Not milkweed. Goatsbeard. Also called Oyster Plant. See you tomorrow in RM. -- FF
Posted by: fred1st | August 18, 2006 7:41 AM
I swam in that pool often while growing up. I also played a lot of golf there as well. But when I was a member there were only 9 holes, and the part of the course you can see from your photo was part driving range, part grassy field, part and part woods. Speaking of nostalgic, I think it was a lot prettier then than now.
Posted by: Jim | August 18, 2006 7:33 PM