garden invadors

I was out shooting macro pictures while the kids played in the sprinkles, it's not quite unbearable hot, but it was pretty warm.

Dandelions have always intrigued me, they are so much fun to blow and they are so soft, but in my garden they create havoc...weeds!!! and they are so hard to get rid off. So here is this beautiful garden invader up close. A few minutes later Miss L got a hold of it and blew it everywhere as I hopelessly sat there and watch her from about 10 feet away...ugh! Well Rog has his work cut out for him...haha!

She got a hold of this one too...

Here are the water loving threesome.

New bathing suite for Miss L.

This is what I worked on, no bathing suite for me...haha!

I downloaded Photoshop Elements 9, the trial version [It maybe just my computer but it took almost 3 hours for me to download it, I do have tons of pictures that could be slowing down my pc]for the photo class I'm starting tomorrow and this picture has a little editing I still have not figured out the program. The dishcloth is also a project for the Cover to Cover group I'm in. Yellow is so sunny and summery!

Did you all have a good weekend?

xo,

estela

sweet serenity

Just wanted to share this moment I spotted [before they spotted me]. They usually get along pretty well, but this rare moment that I hope [fingers crossed] will happen more often. They were all focused on one thing, sharing a small space, sharing the computer, and very engrossed. I don't even know what they were watching, maybe Tom and Jerry...*sigh* I'm content.

Sweet serenity...

XXX,Estela

I pulled a 100,000 lbs. plane!

Summer weekend adventure.

This weekend was HOT and summer has only just begun!

We spent the weekend at the airport and gardening. (Actually the boys stayed indoors and played video games, they were smart!)

American Airlines donated this MD-80 to the Technology School and it's the plane we pulled.

Two T-6 Texan planes flying over the runway.

Oh look it's me!!! I'm actually in a picture...

Here's me pulling and my boss, George is behind...I didn't know the rest of the people but we all worked together pretty good.

Rem, his target was actually on the right and didn't get it in the picture, but 3 arrows hit the target.

Ram and what he did most of the time we were there, blow bubbles from the Children's Museum activities.

Cockpit of one of the T-6 planes. This plane was beautiful close up it was in great condition! Rem had a blast looking at this plane I think he checked it all over.

L also enjoyed making shapes at the Children's Museum activity center.

I just signed up for an online photo workshop. There is still time if anyone else is interested. This book actually caught my attention at Hancock Fabrics which lead to her blog. Karla you might want to check it out, since you like to draw.

Just about melted planting and transplanting this weekend.

Some impatients for the front yard, hopefully they will be in full bloom by the 4th of July.

I only got a chance to put in one hosta but I still need to put in 2 more.

Rog pulled out the juniper in the front yard. Now I need to landscape it' looks pretty empty now and of course pull the grass coming through.

Forcast hot, no rain...Have a good week and enjoy the sun with SPF.

knitting cover to cover

There is this neat site called Ravelry, created for the knitting and crochet community. I have checked it out for patterns but I have recently joined one of the groups, the Cover to Cover Quest. It's for people who want to complete all the projects in the book!!! Crazy!! I just happen to find this neat book at the bookstore for beginning knitters, my goal is to do all the projects...hence learn a lot. So I joined the group thus committing myself to it. Call my crazy!

This is my first finished project the cowl, it's a scarf that is round. Unlike the socks that were abandoned from an earlier post {back in 2009!}. Very sad because I fell in love with the color of the yarn but I kept having problems. I still have not totally forgotten the project and plan to continue. I think I have trouble knitting with aluminum needles I have switched to bamboo...ohhhh I like it! and I have one pair of rosewood which I have been told once you knit with those you won't want anything else. They are  a little pricier, but I didn't notice a difference, as much as I noticed using the aluminum ones...ignorance is bliss. I just don't any better...LOL! The cowl was made with the rosewood needles. It's a lavender color and doesn't show very well in this picture. It's a chunky yarn from Twinkle, which I bought at my local yarn store, the pattern was free on Ravelry.

This is my next project, Fibonacci blanket, the yarn has come in!!! Exciting stuff!  I had to buy 4 times the amount because this is originally a baby blanket pattern,  and I will be making a throw. I bought the same colors so it should look just like it...sorry no creativity on my part. I will be using round needles...something new for me.

Also, I was at the Loops my local yarn store {a different time...don't tell Rog} and Gene who created the pattern works there and was in the store. He is a nice man. Anyways, I thought that was very cool, met the author...



flickr picture from crochetingcricket

One final thought there has been alot of tornatic activity in our area of the Midwest, I'm sure you have heard that Joplin, Missouri was hit the hardest this past Sunday evening. I had planned to make a contribution to the Red Cross but we have an employee in our department whose parents lost their home and they are in the process of working with their insurance company but are lucky enough to have found a hotel nearby and they were not hurt. We will be directly supporting our fellow co-worker. Please keep everyone else in your thoughts and prayers. We were hit with more severe weather on Tuesday, luckily for us it missed us but there were areas hit and a few lives lost.

they are here!

The Painted Lady butterflies came out of their chrysalises today...there are just two left to come out, maybe by tomorrow! The boys are so excited, Ram is camping out in the kitchen next to them he doesn't want to miss anything. Being Friday he can stay up late.
The pictures are not great because they were taken with the net in between me and the butterlies.
Their life span is just several weeks so we will probably let them out soon, as long as the weather stays nice. It has been raining a lot these past few days.

Have a great weekend!!!

at the park

Sunday at the park...Our first site seeing day in Mexico City Maria, my sister-in-law, planned for us to go to Chapultepec Park. There is a lot to do there but we didn't even get to do most of it. We did see some museums that are in the park and got some food. So these pictures are from Sunday April 17th. It turned out that I took over 200 pictures!!! so I'm sorting through them and some editing.

Street signs in their neighborhood...

Right before we went into the Park we tried to take a family picture, but L got cut off when Chris was taking the picture. It was an accident she was in her stroller below and in front of Roger. My nephew Elan is the extra arm you see behind me, he was trying to hide for our family picture...haha!

Statue at the entrance of the park, I think there was one on the other side too.

As you go into the park you walk right up to a monument, Monumento a Los Ninos Heroes. It is in dedication to the six young solders who fought and died during the US invasion of 1847.

Most of us...

Not sure what this statue is in reference of, but it looked neat!

The entrance to the Anthropology Museum, Museo Nacional de Antropologia.  My poor hubby, when we where there it was free day for residents so Rog was the only one who had to pay an admission fee. Hey my kids are part Mexican so they got in for free...hehe!


The fountain at the entrance it is huge of course the kids loved it because of the water.

Inside the museum they had a mock up of an ancient village.

stone/cave drawings

Estela means an architectural feature.

Mayan exhibit began



A section off the museum that had some mock up of the buildings at the time of the Mayas. It was pretty dense that the climate was different than when you are outside. Rog the kids and I only saw half the museum.



While we were having tortas at the park we got some entertainment, these guys came down hanging from their feet.

Here they are almost all the way down.

Castle, Castillo de Chapultepec now is the museum of history, the grounds around it are beautiful the fountain and the large agave plants. It used to be the home to the Mexican presidents until 1935.



The entrance to the castle you can see the stain glass window and as you enter you see the staircase of the lions.

The interior of the castle.

Close up of one of the stained glass windows.

One of the exhibits featured eagles.

Some embroidery work.

Eagle painting, most of the work was modern.

Another angle of the entrace.

The gardens which included a fountain on the side of the castle.

A gorgeous agave plant.

The side side of the castle facing the garden. The house of mirrors was close to the castle but it started to rain when we got done looking touring it, that we pretty much headed for home after this.

One of the friendly squarells waiting to get some food. He is cute but not sure if he didn't bite so I didn't get too close.

There is so much to do, like Disneyland you need about 3 days to see it all and enjoy it.

Here is what we didn't get to see or do while we were there...

• Hot air balloon rides
• Zoo (Zoologico de Chapultepec)
• Interactive childrens museum (Papalote Museo del Nino)
• Museum of Mexican industry, science and technology (Museo tecnologico de la CFE)
• The lakes, they have kayaks, rowboats and paddleboats, (Lago de Chapultepec, Lago Mayor, y Lago Menor)
• Amusement Park (La Feira de Chapultepec)
• Museum of Natural History (Museo de Historia Natural)