Fond Memories

 Two years ago at this time we were in Barcelona, Spain spending two wonderful weeks exploring the surroundings and sampling the food.  Oh, to be able to travel again.  I keep planning trips in my head but can't get any farther than that.

Here are some photos from that trip.

I posted more about food HERE

Above from trip to Terragona - for more here's a post I did on that day trip

More on Sagrada Familia HERE

You can also search Spain on my search bar below to see the other posts.

I'd like to go to Ireland, Provence, Southern Spain, or return to London.  All I would do with UnTours again.  I'm crossing my fingers that it can happen in 2022.

Flower Picking

 Emily suggested we go to a local farm that offers flower picking - the kinds that dry well - so we can dry our own for wreath making in November.  This was a first visit to this farm for me.

Rows and rose of statice in varying colors, globe amaranth, straw flowers and others I didn't know names for.

I had my basket weighed empty since the flowers were sold by the pound.  This is just shy of 2 pounds.

I came home with a white pumpkin too.

Emily spied this sign.  It's the same company featured in the large sign in our barn rec room advertising cream separators.

When I got home I put rubber bands on the stalks and hung the flowers to dry in the garden room of the barn.

Scenes from Here Friday Evening

 

Look What I Made

 

Another old shutter project.

I also refurbished that twig wreath pictured in the header.  I tried to put the bow where the part was lost.  This wreath hung unadorned on our house one year ago when the house was put up for sale.

Notice the clapboard is white still - a sorry saga of a house painter who promises and promises but fails to even show up. We are very close to canceling this contract and if we do we wonder if we will get any of the sizable 1/3 deposit back.