Tying up “Loose Ends”…

This will be a hodgepodge of “loose ends” today…

My “wordless Wednesday” and “outdoor Wednesday” posts had a lot of photos…I’ll recap some about them…

The Retreat photos were made at a resort…Esta’s White River Resort in the Mountain View/White River, Arkansas area,

Esta’s White River Resort

…we spent the weekend in Batesville, Ark. celebrating and attending this young lady’s graduation from Lyon College…

Lyon has a very unique Scottish Heritage thing going on, I loved the bagpipes…

This was the torchlighting ceremony held after baccalaureate…the flames in the background are the graduates holding flaming torches…

and the boat in the water held the fireworks…this was reallllyyyy cooollll….I’m so happy that we got to experience this with our good friends…

Thanks Jackie and Lou…thanks for including us…

Now those famous chickens….!!!!!!!!!

These are the only two chicken/rooster photos I have ever taken…so enjoy, It would be a really freaky circumstance for me to have any more chicken photos, but I know a blogger who has chickens and takes gorgeous photos…so, bloggers unite and harass her to take more “CHICKEN/ROOSTER” photos…Candy’s Camera…she takes great photos and needs some traffic to her site, you won’t be wasting your time, she is really good….

All of these waterfall/rock pictures were taken at the Esta’s White River Resort…

They call this “Hog Country”…

Even their gas/convenience stores in this town celebrate the “Hog” theme…just a little differently…eye candy for the guys…

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Do you see what I see???

….they lifted their heads

to the sky

…searching for the sun

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Retreat…

I love faces…

I love faces…a photography blog showing faces from all around the world…cooolllll….

Here’s Katie…she graduated from Lyons College on Saturday…do ya think she’s happy???

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Dessert…

We had hotdogs for dinner…with toasted buns -cooked on the grill…yep, just shows that I’m “Foodie Friday” material…I think….well kinda, sorta.

Our dessert consisted of these little mini-cakes…and fresh strawberries straight from our vines…

…and roses, freshly cut …

…the little cakes were topped with pecans from my friends trees…

…and served on a vintage tole tray…

…defined by an old crochet piece made by my Grandmother…long ago, most likely before I was born…

…and eaten with a little monogrammed vintage fork from my husband’s late mother…

…this sorta made up for the hot dogs…

 

…the roses were symbolic ……see this for why…

…Buddy…on guard duty…I think…

Thanks for visiting with “Thoughtfully Blended Hearts”…

Recipe for the little cakes…from Pioneer Woman…she’s realllllyyyy good with chocolate cake.

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