Lipstick

a chuckle from my email box...


NO, I HAVEN'T SEEN YOUR LIPSTICK !

Why would you even ask me that? I'm insulted!

Every time something goes missing around here, everybody looks at me!

For your information, I don't even wear that shade - it doesn't flatter my complexion and it tastes terrib….. oops.

Too cute.... can't help but make you smile!

Caught in the act...

Beetles caught munching tonight (left and right photos)

Different dining styles shown in the middle photo.

Munch out little holes from the center of the leaf

or just chew out notches around the edges?

Decisions, decisions!

Guess they like my dogwood too... grrr!

Bugged!

I'm all in favor of Mother Nature and the wonders created... lacey birch leaves are amazing and beautiful...

But come on "Mom!" Why are these opalescent critters hanging out at our home? They really BUG me!

Japanese Beetles have moved into our little piece of heaven. They've decided that our birch trees are "to die for."

TO DIE FOR? No kidding... I'm armed and doing battle... watch out. you Japanese-Birch-Leave-Eating Bugz!!! This is war! (Take your nasty wasp cousins and giant mosquitos with you when you leave...)

Mailbox Creativity

When a 3rd neighbor moved in this winter, the builder put up an "emergency" fix to the mailbox situation... adding the third one by adapting the original two. It's now July - and it still looks this way.






I thought it looked pretty "ghetto," but then leaving the neighborhood one day, I stopped to take a photo of this mailbox. I suppose a snowplow or careless driver knocked over their "real" mailbox... but again, it's July now and this contraption still stands.

Now it's my quest to find other GHETTO mailboxes! Show me yours!