This Perfectly Imperfect Life

  The unofficial end of Summer is upon us! I'm not sad to see Summer go, y'all know I'm not its' biggest fan, but I am a bit startled by how fast this year has gone by! August 31st?! How the...? I await Autumn's arrival every year and every year it manages to sneak up on me and I'm not ready for it! I'm not sure how that happens. Every year. Week before last I made arrangements to finish an interior design e-course derailed by my illness/surgeries/recovery from the middle of 2010 through 2011 and I'm going to tackle Botany for Gardeners as well. I'm very excited! I begin Wednesday. Teachers get the back to school blues too, so yesterday, a teacher girlfriend and I spent the afternoon watching Eat Pray Love and chatting. She brought Dunkin Donuts which made a good day even better!  Now the Hubbs and I are on our way up to our northern home for the weekend. Rain is expected, but we don't mind, it'll be nice to get away for a bit. How a...

Oma is German for Grandma/Grandmother. My Oma was born in a German village in 1905. I believe she came to America around 1926, when she was 21 years old. (And I believe the photo of her with her hair in a long braid was taken before she made that journey). She passed away 24 years ago this Saturday, the 24th. The photo of her late in life was taken just before Mom and I left Oma and Opa's in Florida to fly back to NJ. I only met her that once, a week or so, when I six years old, but talked with her on the phone every Sunday and on holidays. I suddenly realized earlier this year some of who I see in the mirror is Oma.  The angle of my face in the photo above doesn't show it well but now I see where I get some of my features from.  And this nose! I can't remember the sound of her voice now and it breaks my heart.

One of my favorite photos from this week!

S Some of my favorite photos from this week!

Welcome back everyone! This week's #GardenWalk Thursday Featured Tweeters are: A Charlotte Garden: August isn't so bad this year! http://t.co/Jzv3towml4 #CLT #gardenwalk #GBBD — Daricia (@aCLTgarden) August 15, 2013 come on...you know you wanna!!! http://t.co/Q8AHjjDMfM #gardenchat #gardenwalk #dirtyfingernails #flowers #garden #summer #grow #bloom — Glenda (@Tootsie_Time) August 15, 2013 And now for the Weekly Round-Up Featured Tweeters for the week of 8/10 through 8/16: All summer the Two Faced Scarecrow http://t.co/iROYkiM2Cc #gardenwalk #gardenchat pic.twitter.com/U6U4sCJTaU — Old School Bill (@BillsGarden) August 10, 2013 Garden Walk - August 2013 #RoseChat #GardenWalk http://t.co/x6nOU1aoud — Chris VanCleave (@RedneckRosarian) August 11, 2013 @edbegleyjr Gardening 100 ft from the beach. Notice the guys on bikes with surfboards? #gardenchat #gardenwalk http://t.co/V914oD1o1h — Melissa J Bond (@MelissaJBond) August 12, 2013 “ @Bloo...