My View from the Pool

What else goes better with a hot, summer day than icy cold beverages? Join me as I float in my next door neighbors pool and enjoy the scenery from a "Pool's Eye View". Ahhh...I grabbed a float and plopped myself into the pool while she finishes the watering. I think the sound of a waterfall mentally lowers the heat, don't you?

It's hard to float in the pool and take a picture ....but I did it! Isn't the sky a beautiful color...so relaxing. But come to think of it...everything is relaxing when you're floating in a pool of beautiful turquoise water.

Here is some funny yard art I can see while floating! During Hurricane Ike a pine tree fell into the fence (thank goodness only the fence, and not any houses, was damaged). This picture was in my garage (more on the history below) and it was good thing to patch the hole with! We are trying to get some vines to grow over the top so it will look like "she" has curly hair.

Here is my floating view of the back porch. Aren't the Purple Wave Petunia's beautiful? And THIS variety smells wonderful. I like the combination of spiky and drapey (is that a word??) arrangement.

And here's my sweet, little Carson, taking a much needed cooling off break. He likes to watch us swim...but doesn't not get in the water. (his choice)

As I twirl around on my float, I'm facing the diving board and hope no one is going to do a cannonball and splash me and my camera!

Well, wouldn't you know it...with all the water from waterfall, I'm twirled around again and am facing the pathway that leads to my house (the grey one). See the gate we installed several years ago that leads into my backyard. When the path around the pool was installed they included it to go through the gate and to my driveway...What a deal!

OK...so do you see ANOTHER painting on the fence? Here's the story.....

I was having a party one night at my house and a talent portrait artist attended. After several cocktails he was ready to create and asked if I had any large boards or canvas type material. We dug through the shed and found two large pieces from an old ping pong table.
Since I love to paint, there was plenty of leftover cans of paint and spray paint to use. The "artist" went into a frenzied painting dance and when he was through we had these two paintings. The previous picture that we used to patch the fence was used as a drop cloth later on in the years and thus...has the red stripes on it. I was spray painting some red window frames....my bad!
I like the way 'She" peaks through the plants and blends into the scenery.

After a long afternoon of floating, we decided to cook some chicken on my grill. You can see the continued pathway from Tyra's yard into mine. Don't you think that's a cool picture of the smoke coming from the grill? And I swear I wasn't burning the chicken...that was just the fire getting started! And whoops....I still need to hang my Coca-Cola sign on my fence that I got in Warrenton. Hmmmm....I need to rent a Honey to do some Honey Do's!?!?!?! LOL!

Dinner's ready.........Hope ya'll had a good time floating and visiting. I loved having you over. Ya'll come back now, ya hear!