Kudzu: winter and summer

Back in February I took some pictures of a big area of kudzu over in Fairhope, Alabama. The kudzu was dead at this point. You can see the the large area and there is a deep ravine-type area here that you can see really well in the winter.




Here is the kudzu as I saw it yesterday. It's so happy in the hot, humid weather of July. You can't tell how deep the ravine is in this picture. I would suggest never walking into any kind of kudzu because you might fall a long way because you can't tell what it's covering. Also, you never know what the kudzu has grown over...could be some scary stuff under it. The book Gods In Alabama talks about kudzu a little bit. I think kuduz is kind of pretty. Sure is green.


Anybody need some tables?? Maybe for a garage sale? These were just sitting there on the side of the road.




I'm guessing the parents of this child were at the local bar on the beach having a good time while this was going on.

blooms

The hydrangea bush finally put out some blooms this year. They have gone from green to pink to purple and recently I saw them start to make their fading colors before they start to dry out. I decided to pick three of them yesterday to put in vase. I remember seeing a wedding in Martha Stewart's magazine where the cake had YELLOW hydrangeas between the layers. It was so pretty.

I went to the grocery store about 8:30 last night. There were so many fireworks going off around here I would not have needed to get in the car and go anywhere to see them. At 5:00 this morning I went outside and still heard fireworks popping in the distance.

Big Brother starts tonight on CBS.

The Krispy Kreme here is being used as a test market for Krispy Kreme ice cream. The sundae is a cup with a hot donut in it and then topped with soft serve ice cream and chocolate syrup and nuts. Does anyone want me to try it and report?

Fourth of July and halfway to Christmas

Fourth of July! We're almost halfway to Christmas! I have bought one Christmas present so far for Aunt Sue. QVC will be having Christmas in July on July 24 and 25th. I bought one thing last year. I started collecting some decorations after Christmas last year because I want a tree. The tree I want has pinecones already attached on it. My parents have a tree like this. When I think about it now, I'm already thinking...no, it's too much trouble to put a up a tree. I don't know why I get like this. I will still collecting the woodsy type of oraments to put on my tree and maybe I'll get the tree this year on sale.

A blogging friend has had her baby boy! He is so pretty.

I don't know about where y'all are, but it's almost to hot and humid to open the door here. Do y'all know what it feels like to walk outside and in a less than 60 seconds your skin is wet and you're sweating? It's such a gross feeling. It causes me to stop all productive activity ... not that I do very much anyway.

I made Blueberry-Pecan Shortbread Squares the other day. The parents picked 15 pounds of blueberries so I had to do my part by baking something. Thank you to Girlville for showing her recipes from this Web site that has Southern Living recipes on it. It sure beats typing them out like I have been doing.





I hope to have something interesting to show you on Friday. It's interesting to me...anyway. We'll see.

Saturday festival at the beach

Saturday Aunt Sue and I spent a couple of hours at Navarre beach at the little festival there. It was so hot that we didn't stay too long. I think they had bands playing most of the day and the evening and then fireworks Saturday night.

Some pictures from the morning. These guys on top of the roof here are taking video of the activities.

A new boardwalk was built from the parking lot to the beach over the dunes. I wonder why they left the poles so high?

You can see where the pier was damaged by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Scary to think the water is so powerful to take out the concrete pier.

Condos line up down the beach. A popular author of vampire and witch novels lived in one of these condos while selling her homes in New Orleans. She no longer lives here now.

Aunt Sue and I shared this funnel cake. It was big and puffy with a blizzard of sugar on top! We had to get in the car to eat it with the air conditioner running...we were so hot.

This is one of the venders at the festival. These candles were so cute and smelled so good. They were all bakery items and cocktails or beer.


How about a candle for takeout?

These paintings were so cute...especially the hula girl.

These are so pretty too.



We had lunch here right by the beach.

Shrimp artichoke soup.

We split a club sandwich.