My life is so FULL (in a very good way) and I stay so BUSY ---that I cannot stay up with blogging much at all these days. If I get your blog posts via email--I always read them even when I don't comment.
I've been trying to publish this post all week ---and finally got it done. AUGUST 5 was my 73rd birthday.. I cannot believe I am THAT old since I don't 'feel' it (except when the old body aches--which it does at times).. ha
George asked me what I wanted to do on my birthday --and I told him, "Anything as long as I am with YOU!".... SO--we headed over to one of our favorite places, BILTMORE HOUSE AND GARDENS in Asheville, North Carolina for the day. Then we came back through Knoxville and had dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, CARRABBA's. It was a fantastic birthday for sure!!!! Hope you enjoy some of the pictures from that day.
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| Beautiful Walled Garden at Biltmore (8/5/15) |
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| Pink Waterlily at the Italian Gardens (8/5/15) |
The two main things I wanted to see this trip were the Italian Gardens --since the waterlilies and the lily pads are beautiful this time of year, AND the sunflowers.
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| Beautiful rows and rows of SUNFLOWERS at Biltmore (8/5/15) |
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| Two Lovers in the Sunflowers (8/5/15) |
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| Zinnias in the Walled Garden (8/5/15); LOVE LOVE LOVE that color! |
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| Yellow Hibiscus Blooms at Biltmore (8/5/15); Not sure I've seen yellow ones before --but love them!!!! |
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| Love the different colored Lily Pads at Biltmore (8/5/15) |
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| More of the Walled Garden --and I love the huge CREPE MYRTLES in the distance (8/5/15) |
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| The Birthday Girl with all of her 'stuff' (camera vest with all kinds of treasures--including water on a hot day; and my arm carrier for my iPhone)--8/5/15 |
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| Beautiful Waterlily --in some of my favorite colors!!!! (8/5/15) |
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| Love those Lily Pads; Can you see the reflection of the Biltmore House in the water? (8/5/15) |
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| A beautiful CANVAS WRAP from George on my birthday; This is the Governor's Palace at Williamsburg from one of our trips there (2012). George takes these awesome pictures with his camera and ZAZZLE puts them on canvas for us. I now have 16 of them from places we have visited.... Thanks, Honey! (8/5/15) |
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| Son Mark and his awesome girlfriend, Debbie, sent me these gorgeous Peruvian Lilies. Aren't they just fantastic????? AND---they keep getting prettier and prettier with each passing day! I told Mark and Debbie that the only thing better would have been if they could have hand-delivered them. (They live in Texas, BUT I hope they are visiting us sometime this Fall!!)--- 8/5/15 |
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| Two people in love having FUN (8/5/15) |
George put a post of me sitting in this spot on Facebook recently, asking people if they'd like to visit me in my "Summer Cottage"..... ha ha ha .... Wish it were mine ---along with all of the staff and helpers/workers...
We had a wonderful day ---and for me, another great birthday!!!!
Hope all of you are doing fine... God Bless YOU.
Big HUGS to ALL,
