July 1st~~~~~~CDP Theme Day~~Upside Down

The first of every month is a theme day for City Daily Photo members.
July's theme is UPSIDE DOWN.

 Guess which way this house really is--is the first one flip or flop?  Upsidedown?

rightside-up

 There is a clue in this shot.  Can you guess?  Upside-down?

Rightside-up?
 Linking to CDP Theme Day HERE

More Cherries for Ruby Tuesday Too

Last Tuesday I posted pics of our Cherry trees with ripening cherries and now the cherries are ripe and we picked some off the smallest tree and I made some yummy syrup.  We used it on ice cream.  It was great.  Next morning we used it on pancakes and I almost forgot to take a picture.  I did forget to take one of the ice cream and we ate so so fast it was just....gone.

 Oh so good.  I had juice running down my chin

 I almost forgot to take a pic with the syrup and now it is all gone

 Not the best pic but it tasted so good.

Linking to RUBY TUESDAY TOO~~~~HERE

Weekend Reflections

Playing in the pond.  I fiddled with some color and I like the effect.  Looks Fallish and I wish it was.  We are having a heat wave and drought too.

 Linking to Weekend Reflections  HERE

X marks the Spot

Tuesday night sunset over Skagit Bay

Linking to SKY WATCH~~~~HERE

Good Fences and Old JD

Traveling on the backroads we found this pretty fence and an old John Deere-----Nothing Runs Like a Deere.
~~~~~~Maybe~~~~~~~

 Nice white wrought iron fence

 And hiding behind the barb wire fence is

 a John Deere tractor---It's an old timer

Linking to RUN*A*ROUND RANCH~~~~~~HERE

Nasties on Steroids

These Nasturtiums are volunteers and also are huge and they just keep on growing.  Pretty too.

 It's climbing up the front of the house.  There are 3 birdhouses on a stand behind the crazy thing.

 But they are pretty and they make pretty long lasting cut flowers

 They run rough-shod over other flowers

And speaking of volunteers---right smack dab in the middle is a volunteer Sunflower.  I wonder how tall it will get.

Cherry Time

The Cherries are ripe here at our house.  Two pie Cherry trees and 3 Sweet Cherry Trees.  Oh YUM!!

                                                    OH YUM!!!

Linking to RUBY TUESDAY TOO~~~HERE

Chasing the Sunset

We went down to the valley to get a good angle on Saturday evening Sunset.    Not a really flaming sunset but delicious in other ways.

 The golden sun was shining on everything.  Upper left hand corner is a Potato field--it was glowing as was the Wheat field across the road from it.  The lower center picture is of Mt. Baker across another grain field.  Mt. baker is NE of the westerly Sunset.  See the touch of pink on the summit

 I really like this picture with the hill in the background.  The sun is making everything glow and I superimposed another picture with it.

Linking to LAVENDER COTTAGE MOSAIC MONDAY~~~HERE

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to my DAD who died when I was 12---I still miss him and think about him

 And Happy First Day of Summer
Longest day of the year
Summer Solstice

Dog Days of ................

....Summer. It doesn't start until Sunday but we have had hot days so far and Good Ole Bingo loves to lay in the sun.

Linking to SATURDAY'S CRITTERS~~~~HERE

Who is that Cloud

I see Dumbo the little Elephant---don't you?

 Linking to SKY WATCH~~~~HERE

Rhodes River Ranch

Rhodes River Ranch is a Performance Horse boarding and training facility in Oso washington.  they also have an unique restaurant.  While I haven't been inside the restaurant my daughter has and says it is fun and fabulous.  The restaurant is located in the huge arena/stable.  You can listen to music, watch horse events and eat wonderful food all at the same time in ,believe it or not ,an elegant setting.  Visit HERE'

 Linking to GOOD FENCES~~~~HERE

Goldfinch for Wild Bird Wednesday

 This Goldfinch thinks he found the Mother lode of all lunch kitchens

 He sure is stuffings his face

 Yummy!!

 More! More!

 Yep I got it all

 The Goldfinch is a beautiful bird to have grace ones yard and feeders.  Mostly they like thistle seed but this guy is gorging at the seed feeder.
The American Goldfinch is the state bird of Washington as well as Iowa and New Jersey.

Oops you are yellow but not a bird.

Linking to WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY~~~~HERE

Newly potted container for Ruby Tuesday Too

I potted this up and am having great hopes that it will fill out and be so gorgeous.  The Petunia is called Ruby Red.  

 Linking to RUBY TUESDAY TOO~~~~HERE

Sunday drive for Monday Mural

We went for a nice Sunday Drive around Lake Cavanaugh.  Lake Cavanaugh in Skagit County, Washington is deep in the heart of the Pacific Northwest logging country. Soon after settlers heeded the words, “Go West” the market for logging products was born. The vast forest products in the Lake Cavanaugh area brought a flurry of activity around the turn of the 20^th century. Logging is still a staple in this rural area of Skagit County.

 Lake Cavanaugh

 The road around the lake and over the hills

 Starting at the west of the lake going east and ending up in the town of Oso.  The small town where the huge landslide was--wiping out a whole area and killing 43 people.  OSO STRONG!

 A mural of a red Rooster on a shed in the town of Oso

 Looking up into the Cedar trees

 Across the valley and seeing Whitehorse MT to the left and 3 Fingers to the right.  Hardly any snow this year.

 The logging here is selective and replanted immediately

 I would love this little farm nestled up to the forest and hills

Linking up with MONDAY MURAL~~~HERE

Big Critters for Saturday's Critters

 My G-daughter and her big red horse Macaronie running the barrels for Fiday Night Lights at Sedro-Woolley.  Her they are entering the arena

 Turning the second barrel----Beautiful horse

 Taking off from the third barrel and racing for home

Flying hair and flying tail on Mac.
She was the second rider out of 113 contestants and she held on to win the whole thing.
GO, KYLEE AND MAC!!!
Linking up with Eileen at SATURDAY'S CRITTERS~~~~~HERE

Foggy morning

We have been having extra hot days lately and no rain in sight but foggy in the morning up in the hills.  Tomorrow is supposed to be about 15 degrees cooler and then back up goes the temperature but cloudy.
Crazy weather and it's not yet even summer.
I took this from the house and you can see our greenhouse looking lost all by itself.  Kinda cool though

Linking to SKY WATCH~~~~HERE

New Fence~~~~~Good Fences

This fence is a fairly new fence.

 I like the way the fences undulates along the pasture and disappears into the woods

 Zig-zag

.The shadows look so neat on the fence here.
we are having a heat wave--and it is hot for us this time of year.  In the 80s and no rain for ever so long and none in sight.  We are in a drought already.  Our well is getting low and that usually happens around August  It is a double edged sword because we like the sunshine but need and want it to rain.  Well our garden really needs the rain.  So there.
Am linking to Run*a*Round Ranch and GOOD FENCES~~~~~HERE