Swans typically mate for life. They’re beautiful birds. I took the photo of these at the Waco zoo, Daily Texture background.
I am off and running this morning. Put dirt in the grandkids and my new flowerbed containers. Now my granddaughter can move her fairy village into it and my grandson can place his little animal garden stakes in there. I need to find garden dinosaurs for him. 🙂
Back to the book!
Have a beautiful day!!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Took the photo of the swans somewhere. lol Then added a Daily Texture background for this one.
I’m getting closer to being done with Huntress Unleashed. I’m working on proofing the beginning again and will do that throughout the book so that I can catch mistakes and see what things I mentioned but then never followed up on.
So this week is spring break–which means I’m having trouble figuring out which day of the week it is. Usually, I have my grandson two days, pick up my granddaughter from school afternoons five days a week, and so that keeps me grounded.
Do you ever feel that way when you’re off your regular schedule?
But I am trimming trees and removing weed trees in the backyard. Though the youpon holly tree (a weed tree that I let grow for privacy) is full of flowers and that means honeybees. So I was trimming up underneath it to allow for more light to the rosebush and purple magic crepe myrtle below it. I’m keeping the top of the tree that rises maybe 6 feet above the 6 foot fence. I also have a ton of weed crepe myrtles, so I’m trying to keep some, but trim the branches that criss-cross, so I have just a multiple main trunk. I DO NOT top the trees which ruins the look of them and weakens them. I’m cutting others down that are just growing up everywhere. They have such beautiful flowers and all of the trees are starting to leaf out.
Youpon hollies are kind of unruly trees, growing oddly, not just straight up, but I love them for their tiny white flowers in the spring, tiny evergreen leaves, shade in our hot Texas sun, and hardiness in this area. The crepe myrtles provide shade also and a nice leafy barrier. When I first moved here, I only had 3 pine trees in the backyard, and one died so I had to have it removed. They were native to the forest that had been here. So there wasn’t really any soundproofing. Now with all the vegetation I have, it’s much more soundproofed I’ve noticed. My burford holly that had been under the front windows I moved when they were little and they are now over 6 feet tall against the back fence. That provides a lot of noise reduction.
I’m off to work. Hope your day is fun-filled!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Took the photo in Scotland at low tide. I added the water coming in. I don’t think the boat to the right is used much if at all. lol To the left of these, high up on the hill, were castle ruins.
I’m off to let the dogs out and start my day! We were going to see bioluminescence jellyfish off the coast of Galveston, but a cold front moved in and they’re gone unless we want to go to see them at 1 am, with the grandkids. Don’t think so.
Hope your day is super fine!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I combined two photos of Scotland that I had taken while over there to create this. I love Scotland!
I’m off to work on Huntress Unleashed. 12,000 more words to write! Getting to the end! Yet, not really. Even though I edit all along, I will need to really edit once the book is fully written from beginning to end. That’s the fun stuff. 🙂 Because the book is written. Then I just have to make it better.
Step into pastoral Scotland, or anywhere idyllic like that and have a beautiful day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I believe I took the original photo of him in Waco. They have a smallish zoo, but I love it and like the Omaha zoo, parking is great. Not so in Houston or San Diego! 🙂
Little one is here today. I turned in Mated for Christmas, yay! I worked a little on Huntress edits last night. I need to do the blogs for the Lori Foster gig. And the taxes. ugh.
So my fountain was empty and I had the brilliant idea of not carrying buckets of water out to it since we aren’t getting any more freezing weather, probably. And I hooked up the hose, turned it on, had a little water, and then nothing. Wait, what? I checked the spigot in front, it was fine. Water is fine in the house. Now what?
Okay, I’m off to get ready for little one. Hope your day is astounding!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
One of the squirrely squirrels in my backyard. You see how he’s eyeballing me? They chitter at me, waving their bushy tails, telling ME that I can’t have the bird seed in the feeders. Wait, you guys can’t have the bird seed in the feeders. Right. They totally scoff at me, and at the dogs that love to chase them.
My book blog came up as number 3 on The 40 Best Paranormal Romance Book Blogs and Websites! I’m thrilled! I Love Vampires was number 1. I love their blog!
I’ve been working on proofing Mated for Christmas. What inspired me for the book was that I went to visit my friend in Minnesota and we took in all the sites up in Ely. I loved seeing the wolf reserve up there and then this past time, we went to see the bear reserve also. I love that they have so many lakes, and of course my wolf pack lives on a lake, visited by a real black bear. This story is set in wintertime, where it’s really really snowed in. One of my beta readers, Donna, has to remind me to add more clothes to my characters when I send them out in the snow.
Where I’m at in Texas, we don’t get snow very often. And when I wrote this story, it was probably 110 degrees here. It can be hard to think Christmas thoughts when it’s the middle of the summer! But I always have fun writing them.
Also, on Feb 28th, I’ll be taking over Lori Foster’s Facebook page, and kudos to Lori for giving me the opportunity! I’ll post links when I have them.
In the meantime, I’m halfway done with proofing Mating for Christmas, trying to finish up a marketing plan for my publisher, getting closer and closer and closer to finishing Huntress Unleashed, and waiting to hear if I have a contract for new wolf books coming up. But when I’m waiting for things like that, what do I do? I keep on writing.
Have a great one!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I took the portrait of the peacock close up and then mixer brush painted it. They are such gorgeous birds. This one was in Hawaii.
I was working on taxes and only managed to get 1,000 words yesterday on Huntress Unleashed, but hopefully I can catch up this weekend. Maybe. But I’m getting there slowly but surely.
Still pulling up that nasty bur clover that has popped up in the front yard. The grass isn’t even growing yet, the the weeds are already trying to take hold. 🙂 So trying to take care of it before it’s overwhelming.
Hope you have a beautiful day.
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
And he knows it. I took the original photo of the macaw at Moody Gardens, Galveston.
Well, I’m spinning my wheels here, have an idea for a scene or two for Huntress Unleashed, but still messing with the taxes. But I did manage to catch up on word count yesterday too. And hurt my back.
Now, was it from lifting a 35 lb weight several times yesterday? Toddler grandson. Or Pilates on Tuesday? Or lifting bags of dirt into the grocery cart and then into the car and then out of the car? Or pulling weeds? Or pushing 45 lbs of weight, adding the anchor, my granddaughter, who I am pulling along also as she holds onto the stroller handle? Or all of the above????
Could be!
Okay, so I’m off to get some things done. Taxes? Hmmmmmmm. Huntress Unleashed word count? I want to! But I also have a lunch date with my granddaughter that will break up the day and then have to pick her up after school, so we shall see how much I actually accomplish!
Have a super duper, no-strain back day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
