Reflection in the Mirror

                                                                       

You may have wondered what has happen to me???….or maybe not:)

I have been spending all my time staring at

myself in the mirror!!!

NOT!!!

I guess I can only blame myself for having mentioned my hair in the first place.

What was I thinking????

but now it seems that everyone wanted to know what I look like.

Eeeeeekkkkk!

Let me start by saying that I hate my picture taken.

 

and it must have started at a young age!

Apparently from the pout on my face I was having a bad day?

How much of a bad day can you have at 3? or 2 ? or whatever age I was there?

Hopefully, I got over it quickly and didn’t torture my parents too much that day.

 

Now my camera experience or should I say my modeling experience as a child

….not professional of course:)

brings back the memory of my dad having me stand in the sunniest part of the yard and

me staring into the SUN! so most of my pictures are me squinting or

with eyes closed.
Me saying" but I can't look up" and my father just
 losing patience and just quickly snapping a shot.

He tried but I just dreaded it.

Aren't we lucky now that we have a delete button???

Later on in life I realized if I wore a funny wig and and clown makeup I

 rather liked my picture taken.

No you don’t believe me?

Yeah I know the beard gave it away.

That’s me on the left and my cousin Patricia on the right.

My cousin had come for Summer vacation with my sister and niece from France.

I think we were at a River Festival……..hence the clown.

ahhh so long ago in my youth….

and when I could go places and have fun in the Summer.

Now all I do is work!

....and yes even with all this Snow I still love Winter!
I know you HATE me for saying that.

Ok there is no dragging it out!

Here is the hair!

I felt really stupid taking a picture of the top of my head.

I prayed George didn’t see me:)

How embarrassing….what would I say??? It’s what inquiring minds want to know???

…this is gripping exciting stuff I'm sharing!

I wonder if I'll get asked to share this in a magazine or something??
wink wink!

I wasn’t very good at it and took about 10 unfocused shots until I got the second one.

Looking at my part? I think there are signs of me going bald!!!!

MORE  EEeeeekkkkkkkk!

and though I have no before pictures for you the color is only a little bit different

and the cut was just improved but not drastically different.

And no I don’t look like Sienna Miller or Kristin Cavallari

with my new hairdo

but hey they’re Stars and

well..... I’m just ME!

and yes that’s part of a Christmas display in the foreground.

Just took our Christmas tree out today!!!

Those Maynard trees hold up GREAT!! haha

I put the year on this picture…..

thought to myself OK I may not love this picture now but

maybe if I’m lucky enough to reach 70+ someday I might look back

at this moment with fondness!

in the old folks home….

And boy let me add I look more and more like my Mother everyday.

So now it’s like a little visit with her every time I see myself in the mirror.

And that’s always a GOOD thing.

Scared of the Salon

What is it about going to get my hair cut

that scares me so much???

It should be painless.

Right?

I’m not only getting it cut but

colored, highlighted, tinted....
whatever they call it.
See I have no idea about this stuff.
I started having "issues" years ago and haven't been
in so many years.

I knew the time was coming when I had to have a professional figure out

what to do with this mess on my head……

called my hair, my locks…my mane

….my disaster!

But where to go??

It wasn’t until my friend Gretchen got a compliment while in my shop

from a complete stranger.

Who said…and I quote.

“You have the best hair….it’s like young girl hair”

meaning it looked fresh, clean and full of LIFE!!!

and it did and especially the color.

Like this girl!!!

this one is my favorite !!!

so of course I found out where she was going to have it done.

…at Timothy Pamment Studio

I was determined to have a new DO before our trip to NYC coming up soon.

Really need to not look like a country girl anymore.

I just hope I don’t come out looking like this

or this

You might remember the last time I cut my hair

my inspiration was this

sweet girl.

And when I say cut my hair….I mean I cut it myself.

I did like it even when everyone called me “Butch” for a good month or two.

By everyone I mean my hubby and his best friend….

but I have thick skin so I didn’t care.

What do they know about hair.

Though most people would say "you cut your hair"

Not, oh I like your haircut. Big difference!

This time I want a little more length.

 

Ok all very pretty but too long for me. Mines only chin length now.

Cute too,  but come on this is Sharon Stone….she’d look gorgeous with Pebbles hair.

Ok I thought I’d have a little fun and show you what my hair looked

like back in the Fall

Don’t I look a lot like Kate Hudson??? I know it’s uncanny!

HAHAHAHA

Or maybe I look more like

Reese Witherspoon????

Or whoever this person is???

I love Photoshop!

Which was your favorite cut????

Ok wish me luck…. going tomorrow at

2 pm.

1-11 taken from Google HERE!

12-15 me with Google

Finally the 4th

I'm a little late in showing you July4th fireworks....but that's par for me to be a little late

.....ask all my friends:
This year we received parking tickets to get into Waters Edge Inn and Resort.

I thought WOW that's great until we had to get out:))

OY!

I think we'll park on the main road next time

but it was still worth it.

This is the view from the back off the patio.

The planting are really spectacular and the website really shows off it's

great views. It was hard to get a good impression of it from my pictures...

just too many people.

See what I mean.

Crazy!!!!

It's open to anyone who wants to walk from any beach or along rt 1.

Usually we can get a nice view from the top of our greenhouses.

Good thing I'm not toooooo scared of heights....

Not sure why but I made George walk down with me into that crowd.

Then after a few minutes I had enough and we came back up and found a spot out

of the way on the terrace.

Much nicer.

A band was playing some 50's tunes and I ran into some friends.

This is Barb....

I think she's having a good time.

don't ya think?

This guy was a top notch dancer and he had her spinning like a top.

George isn't a dancer so I have to just enjoy watching. boo hoo!

though I still dance....don't get me wrong.

It was very warm and humid that night so viewing the dancing was fine by me.

We were all glowing as Debra likes to call it.

The first fireworks I ever saw was when I was maybe 14 in France.
I think those were the best I ever saw ......not that I remember that much about them
but, hey it was in Paris on Bastille Day which now that I think of it is on Wednesday.
So if you know any French blogs....and I know you do.
Then go wish them a happy Bastille Day.

My favorite is the waterfall one......where you always here the crowd

go AHHHHH!

so pretty

Not my best photography work.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not good at taken pictures of crowds

or fireworks.

I'm not fishing really.

So now we'll change geers and I'll share with you a picture I saw on my friend Lori's blog

My Faerie Window

You can see her cute haircut HERE

She brought this picture in for her hairdresser to replicate.

I feel in love with it. It was the last post I read that night.

I wanted to make a photocopy to bring home but George was rushing me to get done

so we could go home.

That night I kept thinking about that picture.

I couldn't get it out of my head.

I'm not an impulsive person normally

except

when it comes to my hair.

Yep at 11:30pm at night I cut my own hair.

What ya think?

aren't I beautiful?

NO NO NO

I can't lie.

This is me!

what a disappointment:)) haha

I could at least have been smiling. But the model wasn't smiling

so I think that was my thought process.

Look sultry!

Didn't work.

Ok now I sound like I'm really fishing for compliments

I'm really not.

So now I've gone from mediocre photos to THIS!!!

You have to know that I always cut my own hair.

I have hairdresser phobia.

That's another post!

My saving grace is that I wear a baseball cap all day long while working.

I have gotten better at styling it since I took this picture.

A girl need PRODUCT!

Are you impulsive???

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful:))

sorry I had to say that.

You think I could have worn something more stylish then a pink T.

Ok this post is just getting silly.

I have tons of boxes that just showed up that needs unwrapping.

Yup, Christmas in JULY!!!!

Have a Good Night

xxx