{United States Botanic Garden}

One of the million things we did while in D.C. was visit the Botanical Gardens. It was beautiful. It was one of my favorite things but I'll let the pictures do the talking. :)

I wish I had payed attention to what flowers were what and thought to keep track for you so I'd know for this post but in all honesty we kind of zipped through here to get back to that trolley that comes every half hour.





Christmas trees are one of my most favorite smells in the whole world. Especially Balsam trees.


Wild coffee! Can it get any beter???!






There were so many orchids. Orchids remind me of my mom. I bought her an orchid plant once for Mother's Day.




A rubber tree. I LOVE that she had to feel it.








The Rainforest room was my favorite...

















And that's it. Beautiful huh? What was your favorite?

{birthday flowers}

i'm super late posting this but i got some beautiful flowers from my loves for my birthday. roses from my love and carnations from the kids. i was very surprised and very happy. they're awesome. :)

{target flowers}

{i am heading out on vacation to sunny florida tomorrow with my love so you're gonna get some random scheduled stuff to hold you over!}

these are old pics.  i don't even know what kind of flowers/trees these are but they are in front of my store and when they first bloom they are tdf pretty.  i love them so.  :)

and yes, i realize i look like a fool busting out my camera in front of target and photographing trees, but i don't care! :)

{random extras}

here are some random extras from the photography challenge. i took lots of pics for this challenge. some of them good {the ones i posted} some of them not. {the eye}. lol. i have more but here's a start....

{from a low angle}

{something blue}

{bokeh}

{flowers}

{here} is the last post with all the links to the other pics as well as the links to everyone else who did  the challenge.  :)

{28/30...flowers}

day 28. flowers. jen and i took the kids for a walk the other night. my intention was to finish of most of my list. which i did. but i kind of took pics of individual flowers. so here is my day 28....flower.

sunflowers are my second favorite flower. when i grow up someday and buy a house they will be in my yard somewhere. they are just so grand and lovely. love that little bee man. he was hiding behind a leaf that i moved out of the way. it was rather chilly out for him.

{day twenty seven}

{day twenty six}

{day twenty five}

{day twenty four}

{day twenty three}

{day twenty two}

{day twenty one}

{day twenty}

{day nineteen}

{day eighteen}

{day seventeen}

{day sixteen}

{day fifteen}

(day eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen}

{day ten}

{day nine}

{day eight}

{day seven}

{day six}

{day five}

{day four}

{day three}

{day two}

{day one}

{the list}

here is the list of people doing the challenge too. check them out. leave them some love. :)

1. Mel W. 2.Nicole 3.Beth 4.Lisa 5.Allison 6.Misti 7.Jessica 8.Mr. Fun 9.Marisa 10.Tree 11.AmyK 12.ShannonJoy 13.Kimberly 14.Michelle 15.Jen 16.Yvette 17.Shannon 18.Jodi

weekly polaroid fix....{queen anne's lace}

here is another installment of "weekly polaroid fix". these aren't real polaroids unfortunately. they are fauxlaroids. or poladroids. you can install this awesome app HERE!


polaroids make me feel like the photos are from my childhood. even though we didn't have a polaroid growing up.


i'm going to try to do themes each week. this weeks theme....{queen anne's lace}