Yes! We're home!

Yes~ we're home and what a fun trip it was! :)

LOL ~ Well, some of you might think that it takes very little to make this lady happy! Maybe you'd be right, too, in thinking that... but to be honest, I'm so happy I can find such joy in the ordinary things we encounter in our life.

For instance...
the big thrill for me on the way to Milton was photographing ~ wildflowers ~ water towers in the small towns and rusty farm implements/junk in a junk yard!






Charles was very patient with me in my quest to capture the towers (we got several on this trip) and also in stopping along roadsides to get close -ups of wildflowers! We also saw this beautiful flowering bush-not realizing at first that it was the familiar 'Red Top' bush that we know! We had never seen it in bloom, but only as a trimmed hedge plant! The blooms are really pretty!

LOL- Several times on this trip we made U-turns to backtrack to get a better look at some thing or another! Here are a few of the flowers and towers and other things we saw along the way!






















... AND ~ the junk yard we stopped at! :)

Yes! I love looking at this old stuff and taking pictures! ... Charles can identify anything in there but I sure can't! :) I just love the shapes of things and the old rust colors, with touches of faded reds and greens, here and there!

The fellow working there-the owner of all this cool stuff, I presume - seemed real happy to have folks to talk to and to show off his 'treasures' to! ( We may have been his only customers of the day~ or week, even!)

Somehow Charles' age came into the conversation...and the guy couldn't believe C. when he told him he is 74! The man said, "But you married a much younger woman, I see!" HAHA- ...OK- instead of letting the guy think he had a-40 something...or even-50 something wifey... (hahaha) Charles said, "Yes, she's 6 years younger than me!"

What!!! :)

Man! I like that distorted view of reality these north west Florida men have! haha

~I was busy looking at his junk so didn't know of these exchanges until later~

if I HAD known I might have been tempted to give him a Sarah Palan wink in gratitude! haha!~ (just kidding!!!!)


Oh!
What cool junk he had!! :)
(more pics will be posted for Shadow Sunday)

























Tomorrow- more of our trip!


Love,
Junie