When all you need is a kiddie pool, a blanket, and a few armfuls of pillows to have a happy day.

Wow! I have been gone for quite a while from the Wide World of Steem! I am doing well. Finally on a good medication and getting therapy to get myself back on track to health and happiness. I'm not going

...You actually get some! We had a surprise pop-up thunderstorm last week that instantly cooled us off from the 90's to the 70's! It was pretty sweet. I was cooking dinner. After a few hours the rain stopped.

Viola I like to walk around the yard with my camera (actually it's my smartphone camera) and grab photos of anything that catches my eye. Sometimes I'm lucky and I remember to take my clip-on macro lens

Last week I was invited by my two oldest and bestest friends, @melodyrussell and our friend TC, to float a small section of the Jacks Fork. All of our men were busy so we shuttled our own kayaks and did

Prunus serotina This common Ozark understory tree is the Wild Black Cherry. It is a medium to large tree with a straight trunk and a round spreading crown. This one grows in our front yard along with

Asiatic Day Flower It's time to go with me on another stroll around the Hill Homestead. There are different things blooming all the time. I like how my gardens get full when I leave them unattended. Some

I have always bought petunia plants from local greenhouses and garden centers and grown them in hanging baskets. I have never had them come back or seed themselves. I told myself it was our climate and

This beauty chose me as its own personal salt block after I had spent the day on the river floating with friends. I was pretty sweaty and gross. Butterflies like sweaty and gross the best. This is a Zebra

I found this little critter on my hammock chair a few mornings ago. I had my macro lens out and took these. Inchworms sure move quickly! After the short photo shoot, I let it go in one of my flower gardens.

Egg photo shoot in the beautiful green grass The chickens are doing well. We've been getting between 4 and 7 eggs a day. Two went broody but I don't have a sufficient cage to "debroodify" them

This is my entry to @petals Contest of Petals. PinkFlowerDay is on Wednesdays but I thought I'd get this posted while I was thinking about it. This is a macro shot of a hollyhock flower with its pollen

Pluteus atricapillus If I have identified this correctly, and I think I have, this should be a Fawn Mushroom. Their season is from May to October and occur singly or scattered on dead wood or on the ground

On our 10 acres homestead we have several hickory trees. There is a fairly large one in our front yard, a couple by the sheep, and countless ones in the woods. Some branches are low enough I can get a

Baby Vernissage 'maters! The garden is doing great. The cabbages are still in the process of closing up. I have to water about every 24-36 hours. If I miss a watering the cabbages let me know by wilting

Tigrosa aspersa...or Tigrosa something-or-another...They're hard to tell apart. This "little" lady wandered up on my porch the other morning. I told my husband about her and showed him a photo

This is Larry. He has lots of limbs. His limbs are lanky, meaning he is ungracefully tall and thin. Larry likes looking. He uses his googly eyes. Larry loves you. Do you love Larry? These were taken on

Kisses from Loretta Lynn! There is no denying it anymore. It's hot. The house is hot. The porch is hot. It's hot. All the dogs and all the humans have been spending most of their time outside in the shade

There have been a few strong storms moving around our area in the last week or so. It mostly seems that they totally miss our house though, breaking up just a few miles from it or splitting in two and

I've been back at it, wrapping some of my polished stones. I've been using them as more than just pendants though... WINDCHIMES! The chimes I used for this particular one are from an old windchime of my