Maddie's New Summer Dress

My growing granddaughter modeling

her new maxi dress I made for 

her this past week.

 She enjoyed that it had a twirl in the dress!!

I purchased the pattern on Etsy and the pattern and 

website follows.

It did take about 3 1/2 yards for a size 6.

There are a lot of ruffles in the dress.

It was pretty easy to make. 

The website is here

I got the pattern very quick plus bought two more patterns

I made the lace leggings, but forgot to get a picture of her in the leggings.

They turned out very cute!

 VioletteFieldThreads is the name of the Etsy shop, love her patterns!

White Crepe Myrtle Blooms

 

My white crepe myrtle blooms are still beautiful even

though they are about spent.

There are about 8 crepe myrtles at the back of the house, and

they have been very heavy with blooms.

I think next season when it is time to prune, I am

not going to prune, but let the limbs get a little

bigger and stronger.

 

 

 

Full blooms!!

 

I think the south is so blessed to have crepe myrtles

blooming everywhere.

You can hardly go into a town in the south

without seeing a crepe myrtle whether it is

white, watermelon red, lavendar or pink!

 

Our Vacation Out West

We have just returned from a wonderful trip out West.  It was a great trip and we saw so much over our four week tour of the west and northwest.

We crossed over to the Grand Canyon, then north to Utah and many canyons like Zion and Bryce.

Made it across Idaho, Oregon and Washington and the Pacific Ocean.

Then started our trip home crossing Montana, into Wyoming, and visiting Mt. Rushmore, and Custer State Park in South Dakota.  Started our southern route into

Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and then home to south Alabama.

I will try and post as many pics as I can of our trip. 

 I think I took almost

800 pictures .... don't worry, I won't post them all.

 We saw many windmill farms, something you don't

see to many in our area.

Crossed into New Mexico and the scenery really started to change into desert and mountains. 

Ate lunch in Joseph's Mexican Restaurant in Santa Rosa a stop

on the historic Route 66.

We stopped in the Petrified Forest in AZ.  This is one of the first sites of the badlands.

It was an amazing site and the picture doesn't do it justice.

We enter into Arizona.  I tried to take a picture of every welcome sign in

each state we entered, but I did miss a few.

Prairie dogs were playing outside our hotel window in

 New Mexico. 

They were very entertaining.



More pics of the painted deserted and the flora we saw.



Knocking on wood, that is petrified wood.  This was a

great stop at the Petrified Forest.  An amazing site.

Here is a hurricane root as we would saw in our neck of the woods that is

a petrified root.  It was a huge root.