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JuneBug's Blog: Stories from the Farm - Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Stories from the Farm - Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow. Spiderweb in the morning mist. But it's especially like that with the ditch lilies - I suppose because they accompany me most of the summer not only in my flower beds but in my house. Ditch lilies make wonderful additions to bouquets and will continue opening and blooming even after they are cut! Ditch Lily, Queen Anne, and Susan Bouquet. Red lilies (photos from 2013). I call these my silvery-red lilies (photo from 2006).

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JuneBug's Blog: Photoshop Actions, Overlays, and Textures for under Twenty-five Dollars

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Thursday, May 07, 2015. Photoshop Actions, Overlays, and Textures for under Twenty-five Dollars. I keep seeing all these wonderful online ads about textures and lately, Photoshop Actions and Overlays that you can purchase and apply to your photographs to turn them into works of art. Due to cookies and other forms of internet magic, these ads keep following me around, teasing me and tempting me! I belong to a really great (and also free) online photographers' community called YouPIC. Well for all I know, ...

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JuneBug's Blog: Stories from the Farm - Operation Tadpole Rescue!

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Wednesday, August 05, 2015. Stories from the Farm - Operation Tadpole Rescue! Down I went on my rear in the mud! At that vantage point it became real easy to see tadpoles. ;). A portion of our yard and flower bed after Ben drained the long-standing water. A view from the opposite end. How cute is this unsuspecting little guy? Thinking, "Where did all my water go? Oodles of polliwogs in the bit of remaining water by the drain. Enroute to their new home - a pond down the road. Polliwogs, meet your new home!

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JuneBug's Blog: Stories from the Farm - Riding Katie

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Sunday, August 09, 2015. Stories from the Farm - Riding Katie. Three little friends on their first mule ride. Year) People start to meet themselves coming and going. Ben pulling the surrey in Monday's Antique Tractor Parade. Double-page Scrapbooking Layout for the Fair. For my part, I usually bring entries for the Home Show's photography and scrapbooking exhibits. Every year I say it's going to be my last time, but every year I seem to end up with a few photos earmarked for the fair. The girls wanted to ...

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JuneBug's Blog: Stories from the Farm - The Adventures of Kate and Annie among the English

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Saturday, May 16, 2009. Stories from the Farm - The Adventures of Kate and Annie among the English. Or an impromptu tour of our neighborhood through the eyes of Kate and Annie . Although I wasn't certain if we caught one, which mule would follow which. After all, how do you get a Belgian Draft Mule to come to you? And how do you get him/her to stay? Up to this point in my life, "Here, kitty, kitty," or "Here, girl/boy," were about the only resources I had in my repertoire. Stories from the farm. Some tim...

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JuneBug's Blog: Stories from the Farm - A Very Rainy Summer!

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Monday, August 03, 2015. Stories from the Farm - A Very Rainy Summer! In 2005 Ben and I packed up and moved to our present location just one (country-size) block down the road and a 100 years back in time. This was because we purchased the old yellow 1900's farmhouse. Lisa, the author of the blog, talks about raising chickens and ducks and using herbs in the nesting areas. She also sends out a weekly email entitled " The Week in Farm Photos. So I thought, "Hey, there's an idea! Even the apples are small ...

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JuneBug's Blog: Stories from the Farm - Saga of the Sunflower Seeds

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Friday, August 07, 2015. Stories from the Farm - Saga of the Sunflower Seeds. This little farm story starts with a Christmas gift a few years ago:. One Christmas I got a cute sunflower-seed bird-feeder in the shape of a snowman from my daughter. I hung it on a tree by the driveway to feed the winter birds. That next summer, up pops a magnificent volunteer sunflower in my horse-hitch flower bed, close to where the bird feeder hung. A few weeks later, the seeds were all gone! With so many sunflowers, the g...