Archive | March 2016

Turning a Yard into a Whimsical Garden

Mar29

garden in the sun, planted pots, bay laurel 035 (427x640)Colorful planter gardening. Hopefully my plant pots aren’t too small, but nothing else will fit in the stands. These were my mother’s, so I had to put them to good use. The colorful pots are mine. They’ve really gone to whimsical colors just so I can have a whimsical fairy garden.  🙂

garden in the sun, planted pots, bay laurel 033 (640x427)I’m adding a border, but when I did it, I realized I need to cut back more grass. The white bricks behind the lavender against the fence is to keep the dogs from going on at each other as much beneath the fence. It worked to begin with. My puppies thought the brick wall I had at my old house was up for a while. 🙂  I ran out of pavers, so when I have a chance, I’ll go back in and get more.

garden in the sun, planted pots, bay laurel 029 (634x640)garden in the sun, planted pots, bay laurel 031 (640x427)So I’m getting the rights back to Deadly Liaisons, and I’m working on getting it ready to publish. I need a new cover, so still working on finding the right picture, and almost done with edits.

Off to talk to the CPA about the taxes!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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The Goldfinches are Back!

Mar28

gold finch and flowers in vase 002 (640x464)I think the blue glass ornaments attracted the birds. I’ve had more cardinals, goldfinches, and other birds show up that I haven’t seen for a while.

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He has been the only one to nibble on the tower of goodies so far.

squirrel below goldfinches (631x640)

Then another came along and they were watching the squirrel below.

gold finch watching squirrel (559x640)Okay, back to working on Golden Fae. 🙂

Have a super wonderful Monday!! 🙂

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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A Bit of a Fairy Garden

Mar27

close up of blue and silver wind chimes sunset 001 (640x427)Added some wind chimes with glass baubles and a blue glass bottle for some interest. A sparrow jumped on the wind chimes, scared himself and jumped on the feeder while a house finch watched him. The fairy wind chimes didn’t scare them off.

close up of blue and silver wind chimes sunset 002 (640x427)These are the copper ones on the other bird feeder.

tomato plants and a frog (640x427)The frog is protecting the 3 little tomatoes.

fairies in the garden 001 (640x427)And the fairies are watching over the chives.

fairies in the garden 003 (640x427)fairies in the garden 012 (640x427)While Max is watching over the rose and lavender garden fairy. I’d forgotten all about my fairies, still waiting to be unpacked and find a home here too.

I couldn’t decide, have everything blend in or be bright and colorful and whimsical? The fairy garden won out. 🙂

A Very Jaguar Christmas was sent back to the editor. And I’m back to working on Golden Fae!

Have a great Sunday!!!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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Happy Easter Weekend!

Mar26

Easter picture (338x357)puppies before breakfast, storms, lavender 004 (640x427)It was still a stormy day, and I took a picture of the lavender and rosebush, only this is the pastel picture I got. Interesting, eh?

red-bellied woodpecker 003 (445x640)I know this is a woodpecker, but all I’m getting is tail feathers. lol Why is it they like to hide from me? I just want to take a picture! So the woodpecker flew off and then came back later, and this time, yes!!! I could even see which kind it was. A red-bellied woodpecker eating sunflower seeds.

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And I’m actually keeping up with my word count on Golden Fae! And I’m still working on a couple of bear orders. 🙂

I managed to plant one of the plants I needed to. It’s great for hummingbirds and butterflies. Golden Esperanza.

Esperanza 001 (640x427)Esperanza 006 (563x640)And caught a cardinal on the feeder before I closed things up for the night.

Have a lovely Saturday!!! I was critiquing my partner’s Highland story, so back to Jaguar proof-reading. 🙂

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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After the Storms…

Mar25

lavender, spaghetti 003 (640x433)I’ve decided to call my dogs bird dogs. Not because they chase them, though they do like to chase the doves, but because they think they’re a couple of birds, looking to eat the bird seed the squirrel knocked out of the bunny feeder. Yep. Forget the birds. Between squirrels and puppies….the birds lose out.

lavender, spaghetti 007 (640x427)Dahlia with rain drops on the upper petals.

lavender, spaghetti 008 (640x427)Wet knockout roses.

lavender, spaghetti 012 (640x427)Three little tomatoes. Will tomatoes grow if they are watched?

Happy TGIF!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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The Problem with Spring Is…

Mar24

when I go to the grocery store, I want to buy plants. When I go to the hardware store, I want to buy plants. When I go to the plant store, well, naturally…..

tomatos and new plants 001 (640x353)I had to put the stones in there because the puppies thought this was their box to play in too. But, hopefully the tomato plants will do great and I’ll actually have some tomatoes! There are actually 3 on the one plant already.

tomatos and new plants 004 (640x427)I planted the blue, red, and yellow flowers in the holes where I took out the burford holly. These will only get to 2 feet, rather than 6-8 feet. 🙂

I still have a couple of empty holes I need to fill.

Gerbera Daisy

Gerbera Daisy

Delphinium

Delphinium

Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums

I almost forgot the groceries I got so excited about the plants, and the plants took up most of my basket! 🙂 That’s a great way to lose weight, by the way. Buy plants instead of food, and then go home and plant them. 🙂

Have a super day!!!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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The Tail Feathers First

Mar23

blue jay 001 (640x427)Okay, so I’m having fun photographing different birds that come into the yard. I’d seen a male blue jay and female the other day, but not long enough to photograph. So this one landed on my bird feeder and I couldn’t get him there either. The bird feeder is too small for him. But when he landed on the oak tree, I thought, great! All tail feathers. But at least he turned a little so I could see his face.

blue jay 016 (640x622)I took a lot of tail feather pictures before he turned sideways and gave me a really good shot.

blue jay 018 (614x640)And then a fun shot of him flying off.

The Viking’s Highland Lass was uploaded to all the sites. Itunes should be available soon for preorder. Amazon has a glitch for their previewer, so I’ll have to check it out again tomorrow. I’m now working on the edits on A Very Jaguar Christmas, and then back to Golden Fae. 🙂

Have a super wonderful day!!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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Does Mommy Know?

Mar22

Max and Tanner scraggly 004 (640x586)

It’s all your fault Mommy tied my hair back too.– Max
Do you really think she’s mad at us for digging in the bark mulch for birdseed? Do you think she even knows?– Tanner
She knows. I’m sure she has eyes in the back of her head.– Max

I’m finishing up proofing The Viking’s Highland Lass, just got in final edits (I think) for A Very Jaguar Christmas, and I’m only short 500 words on The Golden Fae word count. BUT, with having to finish up Viking today and start on Jaguar, I’m sure the Golden Fae will get further behind. 🙁

Called tax lady, and no response, no call back. I’m having nightmares that she’s disappeared off the face of the earth and all my tax documents with her. ugh.

Have a great day!!!

Terry

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There Are Not Enough Hours in a Day!

Mar21

Don’t you feel that way? If you’re at the day job, there are not enough play hours afterwards or before. If you’re at a home job, same thing!

So I finished edits on The Viking Highland Lass and have to proofread it again to make sure I didn’t add new mistakes into it as I was editing. And I was trying to keep up with my word count on Golden Fae because I was ahead 5,000, but then got behind 4,000 (which meant 9,000 words, but I was ahead, you see, so only 4,000 count), and then I caught up, and then I got behind with finishing edits last night and…I think I caught up because I wrote a lot of words before I went to sleep last night, but I can’t be sure because I have to type them up.

Now my critique partner would say that is a run-on sentence. I say it’s creative license. So I’m off to proof the book, type up the notes on the other, and figure out what to do with my vehicle registration. It’s for the wrong county. Ugh. And call the tax people. I dropped it off two weeks ago and haven’t heard a peep. Double ugh.

bumblebee and lavender (640x500)sparrows, house finch, bumblebee, lavender and red roses 044 (640x427)bumblebee 003 (640x566)Oh, yeah, and I was playing around with pictures. I planted some lavender and red roses. I love purple flowers and red and purple look so pretty together.  And yes, a bumblebee has claimed the lavender for its own. Max keeps putting his nose up to it and I keep telling him to leave it alone.  I was about to take a picture of the bumblebee and there’s Max’s head in the picture. So I had to warn him away before he got stung. I’ve already had a couple of pretty butterflies land on them, but I wasn’t able to photograph them. They just landed for a millisecond and were gone. One was a yellow that looked to have a little red trim on it, and the other a monarch. 🙂

Okay, really time to get started with the day. Wait, have to take trash out…. *sigh*

Afterwards, it’s time to start the work day.

Hope you are having a great one! It’s cold here!!! At least for me!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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The Trees Reach to the Heavens Here

Mar20

At night I notice this especially. The trees are soooo tall. Nothing like in Central Texas. And I kept wanting to capture the leaves and branches against the sky.

trees silhouette 001 (427x640) (2) trees silhouette 003 (427x640)trees silhouette 004 (427x640) trees silhouette 002 (640x427)The farther west you get in Texas, the smaller the trees, like in Oklahoma. So to see these ancient trees standing in new home developments is really astounding. I hope they stand there for centuries longer.

Have a beautiful day!!!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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