TRANSPLANTING TIME!

Transplanted zinnias in the cottage garden. I pick my dried flower heads every year and replant out in the big garden then I transplant some of  them here and there and share plants with my friends. They are always pretty!  Some times I'll add a new package of two to the mix!

My backyard s so pretty I just had to share it! as you can see, I love blue bottles!

And I do have a real Flower Bed with flowers that are always blooming!

My new Coreopsis fill the wheel barrel this year thanks to friend Neita!

My Beta Sigma Phi group went to a play at the next town in which our sister Linda had a lead part.She was really good and the play was very enjoyable1

Linda (in yellow)  as Big Sally Pander in "Don't Try To Wake Him,Hand me The Shovel!"

Generation Gap? My son Paul and Tracee in their home along with husband Maurice. If I hadn't been taking the picture I would have been looking at a magazine or working on handwork.

TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE

This is my first childhood home as it looks now. When I lived there in the 40's it was brown , and the porch was not closed in. It had a big Snowball bush on one side and a lilac on the other. I started to kindergarten while we lived here.

Our Home Church "Benton Blvd. Baptist Church" at 25th & Benton Blvd. as it is now.  In the 40's and 50's it seemed so much larger! The church congregation moved several times and is now called Longview Baptist and is located in Lee's Summit, Mo.

Husband Maurice and I were both active young people in the church. We  were married here Aug. 26, 1955 on a very warm Friday evening in a overflowing church with big floor fans working overtime!  This Aug will be our 58th Wedding Anniversary!

Side view. Young people used the blue doors mostly. Have a picture of the youth on the steps here in the 50's! The Vacation Bible School Parades would start  on this side of the building and tour and walk around  the neighborhoods

NEW RESIDENTS IN PRECIOUS COTTAGE

Granddaughter Jackie and Great grandson Eli are living in the Cottage while she finishes her Internship. She will graduate in September with her degree in  Medical Technician and X-Ray Assistant.

It's fun to have Eli around a little more! He went with us to Golden Years Health Care where we share music with the residents. He liked helping Grandpa play! Poor Grandma always takes the pictures, but she was there too!

Of course we had to eat afterwards!

PRECIOUS COTTAGE FLOWER GARDEN

Iris, Phlox and Columbine are the second blooming of flowers that fill the little walled garden. The first group are crocus, grape hyacinths, pinks and pansies.

The fragrance is delightful!

To the side and closer to the road is the Pet Cemetery. as you can see it needs some weeding!

Before long the Bradford Pears will be blooming too, which will brings the bees! Haven't put ferns in the hanging baskets yet!

Th Ivy is starting to cover the side again. I lost  the whole works one year as you can see the old vines.

My flocks of pink Flamingos (Yeah 50's!) are back again around the birdbath in front of the barn to the side of the cottage.

Thought I'd share  some handwork  I did as a surprise for a friend recently.

I made a collection of my small prints into book form.

In it are some copies of the little ACEO (Trade Cards) that I have or have had on E-Bay Auction. Hope you are enjoying spring/summer flowers where you are too!  Come visit me over at www.mcreatesdaily.blogspot.com and www.facebook Marlynne Snare Folk Artist if you have time.

SOME OF MY RECENT PAINTINGS

Finished this painting after I got home from Augusta

"Sweet Pinkies" Mine are blooming now too!

"The Three Chicks"  I really love these folk art chickens. I just moved them from the kitchen to my studio.

"Tulips and Polka Dots" My favorite colors red & yellow together! This arrangement is setting on our kitchen table right now.

Even the doggies appreciate art! Took this picture at the Brookside Art Show in K.C.,Mo. last weekend.

MORE THINGS TO PAINT IN AUGUSTA AND HERMANN, MISSOURI

I loved this yellow and pink setting in the Stone Ledge Antique Store in Augusta!

This was my painting inspired by that setting.

Beautiful old church on way to Hermann. Will be in one of my paintings someday!

And old cooking stove in our favorite bakery in Hermann.

One of the darling little houses built in the backyard or on the alleyways in Hermann

Love this old fence and garden!

Gate too! It will be in a painting someday!

This splash of color showed up just as we turning to go down another street so my sweet husband made a fast change of plans just for this picture! He is so good to me!

COTTAGE GARDEN FLOWERS

My spring flowers are breaking forth. Of course the pink roses are not real! I put them in there for sorority party a couple of weeks ago.

These flowers are hardening off on our enclosed back porch soon ready to be planted.

Our Sunday School kids carrying in the palms. Church was snowed out Palm Sunday so they did it Easter

My Gypsy /Caravan trade tags arrived this week. It's always fun to see what others will come up with!! Marilou our leader at "Roses on my Table"  packages them up so pretty, even with a little charm and special card of her own! It's a fun group to belong too! Thanks Shelly B, Paulanne and Malinda for such creative and attractive tags!