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The top one is a zinnia and though my seed attempts were thwarted this year (don't ever plant seeds on a windy day), I will have some zinnias next year.  I WILL!

But...what's the bottom one?  It looks like a hibiscus, yes.  But it must be a really tough one because it comes back each year. I've asked and asked, but no one who has them in her yard knows.

Help please?

Taken at Peck Farm Park, Geneva IL, 8/27/11

Linking here

Straight Out of the Camera

My friend Maeve.

I haven't joined this hop in a while...but sitting here on a very rainy (hurray) Sunday morning, 

I thought I would!  It's such fun idea.

Hugs, flowers on the vine, and sandals--variety is my spice!

     You can tell this one is straight out of the camera because it's so blurry!  This is my friend Gail hugging her niece and great-niece right after arriving at her surprise birthday party last Saturday.  The girls, who are about five, were soooo patient waiting for Aunt Gail.  They were so happy to see her, and as soon as the hug was over they yelled, "NOW we can eat!"

      My husband bought this vine for me because it blooms in my favorite color, and this week it bloomed!  Had to make it a two pic SOOC post!

     And now for shoes!  I skipped Dani's hop last week because the weather had been so iffy, I just couldn't get into sandals--yet I was so ready for sandals.  That changed on Monday when we hit the 80s, and I wore these Soda brand shoes with a little Old Navy sundress and tank.  The seed beads don't sparkle much in this pic, and there's some detail on the back that doesn't show--I couldn't get a photo of it without making my ankles look like an elephant's.  Bad enough you can see that I color in the lines with my "Dim Sum Plum" OPI polish...But their flat and girlie and comfy--and THEY'RE SANDALS!!!!  (Finally.)

Hands down winner...

Our candy stripe geranium.

Makes me smile!
And, so does this photo.

Joining up with SOOC Saturday...

From Top to Bottom

     This week has gone by in a blur.  While I was blog surfing one evening, instead of the zillion other things I could should have been doing, I came across a Saturday hop I looked forward to joining, SOOC, Straight Out of the Camera Saturday.

    

     So here's my photo of the week from yesterday's field trip to Feed My Starving Children.  It's the end of our time there, we'd been packing food for over an hour, had cleaned up all the work stations and now the students were waiting to pray over the food in the hope it would arrive in, in this case Haiti, safely.

If you'd like to see more photos from this amazing experience, please click here to go to my classroom blog!

Thanks Amy, for this photo opportunity!  I hope to join again and again.  

Thinking of this hop will make me take more pics!

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     Hm, now onto my usually Saturday depths...my shoe post.  You know I love my Satruday shoe share with Dani over at Living Outside the Stacks, so I pondered this week just what shoes to feature.  I decided on these, my oh-so-fun polka dot rain boots.

     My friend Annemarie gave them to me last fall because I was worried my once-a-week crosswalk duty way out at the end of the school's driveway would find me ruining at least one pair of shoes.  I was certain I'd be caught out there in a deluge at least once this school year.  I was delighted to receive them and I kept them at the ready, right next to my desk all year.  Once made their owner, I really wanted to wear them.  I so wanted a raining duty day!  Except, guess what?  Not a single drop of rain on a single one of my duty days all year.  Three duty days left.  "So you're sayin' there's a chance?"
     I may just pull them on on the last day of school...just for fun, rain or shine.  How do you think they'd look with pink shorts and a white peasant top on June 13th?

This is a fun hop, come on, show your shoes!