Gonna get fancy tonight.  Seeing "Singin' in the Rain" at Powell Hall.  It's actually the movie on a huge screen - with the symphony orchestra playing the background music.  Time to stop working and let myself sit still!  Love this musical and look forward to resting and enjoying a little music.  They don't make Gene Kelley's anymore.  I miss the days when entertainment wasn't a work-out!  It's nice to not have to claw the seats or hold my breath...just laugh...and dream.  Off to get the dirt out of my fingernails and squeeze into something less comfortable!  Ya'all have a pleasant evening...

Old metal bridge near Scott's moms house in Swdgewickville, Mo. It was removed a few years ago and replaced with a concrete bridge.

It is a beautiful spring day.  I was off work today and promised myself I would be lazy and take it easy.  Though I'd rather be at a creek or walking a shady trail than staying home, I still ended up outside.  Yep, I traded bon bons for pulling weeds, raking left over leaves from winter and trimming in my flower gardens.  I am rather pooped, but there is something therapeutic about a blue sky and blue birds!  If I had a field and a creek, I'd be there too!  I startled a couple of little ring-necked snakes, dug out an old brick walk way, planted some wild flowers and got a little dirt under my fingernails.  I simply cannot get enough of God's green goodness splashed with color extraordinaire!  Let's see....I'll add a field of black-eyed-susans and a swing under a sprawling shade tree to my dreaming today.  And....well...let's just throw in a cool blue spring lined with coral-colored Columbine, deep green moss, and a quaint little red barn.  Sometimes a girl's just gotta make the best of her day off...  

Gonna shoot from the "hip" the next couple of days.  Off work.  It's Mothers Day (weekend).  2 days to be lazy.  Sleep late.  See my kids and grand kids.  Write....maybe?  Watch birds?  Definitely.  Clean house?  Certainly not!  Feelin' stubborn and sassy.  :)

And yet "one more for the road" this fine night...a small but stately Grant's Cabin.  So happy to have this kind of history still standing among us.  Oh to look so good at that age!  

My bird-watching is getting out of hand...from the woods of my back yard to the exotic places of St. Louis' animal farms, I found some splashes of color and beautiful displays of feathers this time of year!  The personality of this little guy intrigued everyone around....glad I was able to get him to pose at least once for me!  What a handsome red head!

This pretty lady had a little modest "hand" over face gesture as if I were violating her sweet beauty!  No harm intended Miss Peony Perfect!  Tis the season...and these gals are showing their stuff!!  And oh what fragrances they share!  Check em' out at the Botanical Gardens....or a front yard in a neighborhood near you!!  

Just wanted to say thanks again to all you web site visitors who peek in to read my blogs and browse through photos!  It blesses my heart that I could provide a little entertainment or pleasure for such fine friends!  Never hesitate to leave a comment or two...I sure enjoy hearing what you think...I guess you could say that it energizes us creative types!  I discovered that after you more or less go out of style in the music world, ya just gotta find something else to try and "make pretty"!!  What can I say?  Sometimes it simply involves an animal's face!  Ok....maybe not "pretty"...but definitely fun!  Ya'all have a warm n fuzzy evening....and be sure to come baaaaack, ok?