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July 3, 2025
I Like Thursday # 458 picnics, reading, lawn ornaments, robins from Not Afraid of Color


 welcome to this week's list of likes, summer edition! Brought to you on a heat wave!

I started with another neighborhood lawn ornament... cute red truck with strong sun lighting it

I like the view out of our sliding glass door to the patio, Milo's toys are still here, I miss him so

On a walk this week I startled a robin ahead of us,
I said, don't mind us we'll be walking straight ahead on this sidewalk
Robin: what? I don't speak human!! I need to catch a worm so stay back!
so she ...

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June 26, 2025
I Like Thursday #457 flowers, convo question, dishwashers, a vintage milo video, and an iguana from Not Afraid of Color

 

welcome to this week's list of likes starting with other people's flowers!

We walk a lot and I enjoy seeing lawn ornaments and pretty flower displays. Our rose bush is adjusting to life in our yard, no blooms yet but they might be these colors...

this yard had 5 of them, orange, yellow, coral, sunset, pink

what are these? red violet colored TINY bells on stalks

how pretty this porch box is! Pink/yellow, white and lush!
mighty clouds filled the brilliant blue sky this week, as a storm blew in to put a stop to over 100 ...

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June 19, 2025
i Like Thursday #456 flowers, good food, yard ornaments, art, the usual from Not Afraid of Color


 

welcome to this week's list of likes starting with another yard ornament, this time on a shed, and I always smile at it. Plus the people that live there have a bulldog.,, who is very engaging and happy. 


Hiya! can you see me? I'm a little happy gnome behind the fence

I'm a yard bunny not an ornament!!!

 I came out this week, to paint my nails and startled the yard bunny who leapt off the patio, then stopped to see if I'd go away. Since I continued to paint my nails, he sat, then laid ...

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June 12, 2025
I Like Thursday # 455 flowers, books, lawn ornaments, donkeys and fresh baked bread from Not Afraid of Color

 

welcome to this week's list of little likes starting with another yard ornament, or is it a house ornament? 

Anyway, I love the way it looks against the stone, the beautiful plants/flower baskets and the bench next to it all on the front porch of this house. The house next door has a kokopelli tucked into a tree stump


I enjoy walking and looking at what each person adds to their yards. 

I notice things such as the roof on this house turret is the exact same shade as their shiny VW bug

which was charming in the ...

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June 5, 2025
I Like Thursday # 454 nature, tv shows, Art, and finding a face in my toast from Not Afraid of Color

 



welcome to this week's list of small likes.... starting with white fences and photography with depth

abundant blooms on rose bushes promising lots of pretty pink blossoms

pink is happy


white blossoms on trees, not the pollen making my eyes hurt but clusters of light

slices of home made cinnamon bread that look like they are smiling
two raisin eyes, a tiny nose, and sideways smile! 



more lawn sculptures seen on a walk

A painted purple poodle on my sketchbook cover 
with stitching of bright threads holding a button, and French Knots

making enough carrot salad, and potato salad ...

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May 29, 2025
I Like Thursday # 453 flowers, baked goods, topiary and donkeys from Not Afraid of Color

 

we walked in another section of the 'hood this week and I saw these large metal sculptures in one yard

they also had some kind of faux topiary... hee hee
of bunnies, LOL... look at the real one staring at it!!
saw this haircut online, I like it...


( going to chiro for nerve pinches  kept me from doing much tofday)

fine dining

a cool day, led to baking and soup making. Rain and hail all week. The soup is cabbage soup recipe from the 70's in an attempt to have lo-cal option before meals

I tried a new recipe ...

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May 22, 2025
I Like Thursday # 452 seeds, donkeys, hail.... just another day from Not Afraid of Color

 

List of likes for the week... starting with a long walk around the neighborhood on the weekend. The view showed a storm brewing in the mountains.... 

Our housing development is very large, but on the edge of it are some farmettes and on this day I was drawn to the donkeys

I would like to have room for a couple donkeys. These two were across the paddock when I called out in baby talk to them. They came cantering over, and sized us up as having no treats so they resumed eating. I stood there a long time cooing at ...

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May 15, 2025
I Like Thursday # 451 flowers, colors, paint, and conversation prompt from Not Afraid of Color

 



welcome to this week's list of likes starting with birdsong... "we're baaaaack" 

and tulips in a neighbor's yard,

I love the delicacy, the plentiful blossoms, the delicate depth and range of pinks
beautifully set in their front yard
nice food for a birthday week
It was so hot but we had everything ready to go in the oven one after the other... a lunch of oven chicken flautas, then we made pear crumble with the lovely pears from last week's post
almond thumbprint cookies with raspberry, and a pear crumble
some cookies, then hamburger buns to ...

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May 8, 2025
I Like Thursday # 450 bikes, birds, painting, and pears from Not Afraid of Color

 

here it is Thursday again, and here I am with a short list of likes to share.... starting with 

The mixed media workshop online (free) on Willowing.com which has inspired me to paint... the image above is a thumbnail close up of the whole picture done one morning while waking up. The full photo will be on my creativity round up post Saturday (with others) 

I try to live a creative life, and being in that mind space provides me calm, peace, and excitement.

Music Love

 Just LOVE Burt Bacharach's music, always will, enjoy it here.   He wrote ...

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May 1, 2025
I Like Thursday # 449 May Day, rugalach, books that make you laugh, and flowers from Not Afraid of Color

 

what? Thursday again? welcome to this week's list of likes starting with a metal sculpture I bought at a craft show in Maryland. I love the cutlery as rays!  the spoon on it's side for a mouth! 

I like that artists see the world in unique ways, and are driven to interpret it

The lilacs have bloomed on our bush

delicate scent, and color. From deep purple/plum to light lavender

I Like shadows....Shadow photo of the week

tree in bud

attempt at mixed media 

 here is a close up of a mix of magazine pages, drawings ...

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April 25, 2025
I Like Thursday # 448 blossoms, messy desks, shows, a journal page from Not Afraid of Color

 

Blue skies and blooming trees 
blue skies, blooming trees, and a wee bit of snow equal a Colorado Spring... welcome to this week's list of likes  
red stems and white blossoms on this neighborhood bush

Reading

trying to learn French part Deux 


Edenbrooke come back for me to continue reading



Watching On TV 

Murdoch Mysteries (Canada) Wolf Hall (PBS) and back finally, Brokenwood Myssteries (N Z ) 

we found on ACORN a new to us series we LOVE  Darby and Joan   

Fine dining 

Made hot cross buns this weekend, FABulous 



who knew?  Kitchen hacks short video


I like conversation so ...

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April 17, 2025
I Like Thursday # 447 Pink blossoms, Easter baskets, portrait painting from Not Afraid of Color

blossom season

 click to make the image larger to see the delicate pink of these blossoms, and welcome to this week's list of likes

Delicate in pink petals, strong enough to survive Colorado

listening on audio




I like sewing and liked this video of how to not skew thick seams... a short video

https://youtube.com/shorts/NMWQsCTEaVs?si=EPqzwEWRMyeWE7_i

conversation starter this week, last of Easter prompts



did you get easter baskets as a child? Please describe them, what was in them, did you get them in the morning? After church? Did you make them for your kids ...

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April 10, 2025
I Like Thursday # 446 Egg hunts, spring views, books, pralines from Not Afraid of Color

 

We saw this view on our walk one day. A flock of birds in a budding tree. Spring. They were chittering at this guy 

Squirrel in the Attic

who was eating their seeds! 

Game for you.... what's this? 

lush blue, reflective, curved, 
Love this color and splash of color on our porch
turquoise, red chair, pink flamingo, yellow rock wall

speaking of a splash of color... only one person in this enormous subdivision planted daffodils
and they return each year even in our hardscrabble soil. They moved last year but the flowers are here 
Audio book  5th in the ...

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April 4, 2025
I Like Thursday # 445 Easter dresses, sewing, memories of a poodle from Not Afraid of Color

 

welcome to this weeks (short) list of likes.... starting with my  parasol finished block. 

not large but very happy, I made three stand alone blocks one year, and this one sits on mantel for spring

still life.... I love fresh fruit, honey crisp apples navel oranges 
I made citrus salad again, and this week made waldorf apple/ walnut/grape salad
the goddess behind is Venus de garlic, and of course part of my cow collection

love cool weather   it returned for a few days here: 

DH looked at the sprigs of grass pushing through the snow and said "Colorado, where ...

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March 27, 2025
I Like Thursday # 444 the town you grew up in, art, food, books from Not Afraid of Color

 

It's beginning to look a lot like springtime....at least the temps and sun are HOT already, and you know how I dislike feeling hot... but I pulled out this cute quilt as it's cheerful on the easel in the entry!

On with the show.... 

More shadow art... transient, moving with the earth, caught in an instant

looks like handwriting to me

from here
back door to yard

love this haircut

from videos of a stylist in Italy who does short cuts
I had a cut like this once, and the stylist couldn't remember how to do ...

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March 25, 2025
I Like Thursday # 443 bunnies and birth order story from Not Afraid of Color

 

 It's been a hard week in the USA, and I'm stretching to find good things to note. Here goes

I lined up the felt bunny brigade on the mantel for an Easter display, made these several years ago, hand stitched and embroidered differently on each side

Our yard bunny is still around and visiting but afraid of us 

Fine Dining

made some delicious strawberry cream muffins this week from https://www.365daysofbakingandmore.com/easy-strawberry-muffins/

used frozen strawberries but they had a wonderful flavor this time, big fluffy tasty
also tried a cumbrian gingerbread that was awful except for ...

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March 13, 2025
I Like Thursday # 442 brought to you by the color green from Not Afraid of Color

 welcome to this week's list of likes 

                                                  this week brought to you by the color green...

allergens are threatening to take us down this week, and I go to bed with stuffy sinuses and wake up with them even worse. I often hold my warm cup of coffee up to my forehead and along the tops of my cheek bones (between sips) and they start to drain quickly. Do you do that? 

before showers make up or hair fixing  looking rough there Lana!

I love these hand dyed (cherrywood fabrics) fabrics and there are three sets of them to ...

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March 6, 2025
I Like Thursday #441 from Not Afraid of Color

 

welcome to this week's list of likes.  it's a hard time around here for likes so I have a few really fun videos this time. the art above is a metal sculpture made in Haiti. I've had it for about 40 years. I used to work at my friend's art gallery and he gifted it to me. I've moved it so many times and it's usually one of the first things to go on the wall as it holds my keys.

this quote really spoke to me

"If life is a never-ending loop of ...

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March 3, 2025
I Like Thursday #440 from Not Afraid of Color

my fabric cutting tablescape

time to remember the little things we liked about this week... for me the shamrock out of fabric I made for a challenge to use our birthstone color, mine is emerald and I like the emerald ring dh bought me. 

( I showed whole photos of the shamrock on Sat's post )

what's this? can you guess? 
answer, the sun peeped around a plant and hit the back hallway. I noticed during lunch one day



 still happy to be learning French   

En Francaise : Je suis reconnaissant  (I am grateful) although it's testing my memory and ...

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February 20, 2025
I Like Thursday # 439 from Not Afraid of Color

 

time for an I Like list! Thanks for coming by, and on with the show... 

above is a little painting I did this week, like a paint doodle. No goal in mind. I love colors, all of them

we had more normal weather this week, really cold and lots of snow, none predicted. We still toss out veggie peels, for any critters. They don't hibernate here since temps can be 60F one day, then drop that afternoon below 0 . 
I saw my bunny and squirrel this week on our porch. So sweet, he tried to dig down into the ...

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