A Fun Tag..

A fellow scrapper posted this tag list on her blog. It is a new one and it is way too fun...check it out:
1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car): Yum Yum Camry
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie):Vanilla Bean Cowboy
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name):S-Kin
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal):Red Cow
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born):Elaine San Diego
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first):Kinsu
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink): The pink wine
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers): William Harvey
9. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names): Louise Wynn
10. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Ann Annapolis
11. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower).Fall Daisy
12. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”):Peach Dressie
13. HIPPIE NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree):Oatmeal Maple
14. YOUR ROCK STAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour” and the year): The Scrapbooking Snow Tour 2007

This is too fun! Let's see what you come up with! Let me know if you post it on your blog.

*Flowers*

One of my favorite things in this creation is flowers. This is a picture I took last month in my garden of one of the many sunflowers I've grown. The other picture is of my Mattie 'hiding' behind the lavendar. I have about 5 lavendar bushes growing. When I was in Sequim this spring for a conference I picked up a couple plants. One survived and one sadly didn't.

Living on a farm has some luxuries ... lots of dirt to play and grow things in. I've planted new flowers and flowers from years past (I'm guessing decades) are still growing. I hate to pull them up and move them, but I've got plans for my garden of flowers. I've some ultimate goals for my garden and of course, like most goals ... there will be time involved. Time to plan, plant, and time for my goal(s) to evolve. Maybe I should have went straight to the "G" word. :-)

I have always hoped that my love of flowers is something I've inherited from my Mom or 'Honey' as my kids lovingly called her. No matter where we lived in the world ... there were flowers. And not just the beautiful live ones. Flowers on our pillowcases, floral patterns on our towels. No ... not a floral nightmare -- just simple patterns here and there. For each grandchild born, Mom would plant a rose bush. When Mom passed away, it only seemed fitting that as we scattered her ashes we also scattered rose petals from her garden.

A flower is such a simple thing, yet complicated. Delicate, yet hardy. One of Mom's favorite sayings was "it takes some flowers longer to bloom then others." She'd usually say this when she was referring to a child or an adult. It is something I've always remembered and my kids have also.

One of my favorite pictures of my daughter Christina is taken in Honey's backyard in Spokane. Nina is standing next to a gigantic sunflower with a really cute outfit that Honey had sewn for her. She also had an adorable hat on that Honey had attached a .... you guessed it, a flower!

So for now I think of the fall flowers coming into season, the summer ones dying off and the magazines that I get to look through dreaming of my 'floral' room outside where I can one day sit amongst my flowers and just be.