Corner View - Fauna

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane and currently curated by Francesca, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments at www.fuoriborgo.com, and be sure to visit other participants, too.

A butterfly photo I took at the local botanical gardens, Leu Gardens.

A great blue heron at the pond behind my house.

One of the tree frogs that live in my entranceway.

Willie, the wild jungle cat playing in the oak tree in the backyard.

And from my photos from Kenya a lilac breasted roller  - I fell in love with these birds in Africa!

Another one of my favorites from Kenya - the secretary bird.

I will be out of town for the next two Wednesdays, so I won't be participating in the next two corner views.   I am going to Memphis.  I grew up there, but haven't been back for a visit in almost 12 years.  (Shame on me!)  I am so excited and promise to bore all of you with sappy, sentimental posts upon my return.

 I hope you all have a great next two weeks!

Happy Corner Viewing!

Corner View - Flora

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane and currently curated by Francesca, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments at www.fuoriborgo.com, and be sure to visit other participants, too.

Railroad Vine also known as Beach Morning Glory or Goat's Foot, is a common pantropical creeping vine.  It grows on the upper parts of beaches and endures salted air.

These photos were taken at Cocoa Beach - the same day we collected shells for Gis :-)

Happy Cornerviewing!

CV - What Makes You Laugh

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane and currently curated by Francesca, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments at www.fuoriborgo.com, and be sure to visit other participants, too

Lots of things make me laugh, but when I saw the topic for this week's corner view, nothing came to mind.  (Well, nothing other than a few VERY dirty jokes that did not seem appropriate.)  Then Sunday came and I saw the movie, Moonrise Kingdom.  It's a quirky, little movie that had me laughing so hard that I was crying. 

Here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eOI3AamSm8

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.  It has a lot of "American" humor... although a lot people don't think Americans have a sense of humor :-)

Happy corner-viewing!

Corner View - Table

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane and currently curated by Francesca, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments at www.fuoriborgo.com, and be sure to visit other participants, too

My favorite table is one with a friend or friends and good food.  This is table from yesterday's lunch with my good friend, Roxanne. 

Corner-to-Corner

Look what recently arrived at my house from Beth's house:

I was so excited to see the Corner-to-Corner package, but not nearly as excited as I was when I opened it and found this gorgeous fuschia stole, which has "Heather" written all over it:

Also enclosed was a bar of handmade blackberry scented soap that smells good enough to eat:

There was also a lovely Amish star ornament, which is pefect as I have an Amish barn star in my living room and Amish-style star pulls in my kitchen.

Thank you so much Beth!

CV - Mother

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane and currently curated by Francesca, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments at www.fuoriborgo.com, and be sure to visit other participants, too.

I am very close to my parents-closer to them than I am either of my sisters. After all, both of my sisters were on their own and living in other cities before I was even in high school. So, for high school and university years, I had my parents all to myself. (I did go away for university, but still returned home for holidays and the odd weekend.) As my father travelled a lot when I was in high school and, for the most part, was only home on weekends. It was just me and my mother during the week. While we fought as is typical of teenaged girls and their mothers, some of my fondest memories are from that time. I remember we would eat “Lean Cuisine”for dinner and then split a half a dozen donuts for dessert. If I had a day off, we would often pack a picnic lunch and go for a drive in the country. We even used to do "drive bys" of boyfriends and/or potential boyfriends houses - even getting caught one time... I could go on and on and on, but I'll stop here and share one of my favorite photos of me and my mom. This photo sits on my piano and is a constant reminder of a lovely spring break trip we took together in 1987.  The photo is not so great, but the memories are.

Happy corner viewing!

[On an unrelated note, this will be my last CV until late June or early July. I am getting ready for a three week trial that begins June 4th out of town. Thus, the rest of May will be work, work and more work.]

Corner View - Things that make you go hmmmmm

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane and currently curated by Francesca, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments at www.fuoriborgo.com, and be sure to visit other participants, too.

I like that her red thigh high boots and sunglasses match... it's a classy touch :-)

Happy corner viewing!