Cantigny Flowers
Just some flower stock if anyone needs it!
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Blues Sisters and More
Pictures from a family visit to Cantigny and other local spots: Tank Girl: Professionally grown polliwogs in the Children's Garden: The shoe and clothing garden: (This is why the shoes and clothes were on the bushes): A blue bush (actually a spray-painted dead rosemary bush that had been a topiary): My favorite tank on display at Cantigny, the Korean Tiger Tank: And finally, a DIY Tokidoki colored by a 6 year old. I wish I had one like this for myself--the sharpie looks so good and the colors and shapes are so cute!(Not that I am biased or anything)
Cantigny Wallpaper
On Saturday we went to Cantigny again--it wasn't quite as hot and there had even been some rain in the morning, so we thought maybe there would be flowers in bloom. And there were--as well as another wedding. I could have bagged another bride photo if I hadn't had a can of Pellegrino (Limonata) in one hand when I spotted her. Next time I will be more alert. Anyway, free wallpaper of the flowers (echinacea?) above is here: Echinacea 1200x900 here Here are some more: Mixed Border Wallpaper 1200x900 here Water Lily Wallpaper 1200x900 here Zinnia Wallpaper 1200x900 here (I think they were zinnias). If you don't like flowers, Cantigny also has a fountain you can play in, as long as you don't wear a bathing suit (?):
Trees in Finland and old bottles
It was hot yesterday, and the AC refused to get the house any cooler than 82 degrees F. When you get to be a certain age, being hot is a problem. I am already hot enough, thank you, and not in the pinup sense of the word. I tried bullying the AC via the thermostat, which did not work, and then I went outside today to look at the perp. I found a very small, sad little air conditioner trying to cool 2400 square feet of plywood and plastic, so I guess I can't fault the poor thing. I am going to go buy a window unit so that I can cool just the room I am in, and not the remote corners of the farmhouse. The mice can get their own AC, or go outside. I did find a very cool picture, where it is not hot. These are pine trees under snow in Finland. (Finland, by the way, is hot, in the pinup sense, the language and the landscape look awesome) Finnish Trees Under Snow #1 Finnish Trees Under Snow#2 When I was picking up the yard earlier in the year, I found a lot of bottles. I recycled ...
Tank Petting Zoo
While we waited to hear back on our house offer, we went to Costco. They had no fly swatters. We already tried Target. So we went first to have lunch at a kebab and pita place, opposite the World of Beer: And then to Cantigny, which I found out is pronounced "Can-teeny", because it seemed appropriate for Memorial Day to go look at a place that had both tanks and poppies. First the tanks-- this was my favorite, a Korean War veteran that was not very "stealthy" but definitely styling: There were tourists from Taiwan, and a wedding party: There was a Children's Garden, and an awesome frog pond, with hundreds of tadpoles: And of course poppies Which you can also have as wallpaper here: Cantigny Poppies